Night of Surgery
September 24, 2008 by Admin · Leave a Comment
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Well he had his surgery today. He was in there for about 2 hours again. We got good news in the respect that nothing has worsened. Nothing is better but nothing is worse either and that is considered to be good news around here. There is a little bit of bad news. Jamie can’t talk again. It is a struggle to know and understand what he is saying but we are making it through. He doesn’t remember the sign language that he learned before but I can read his lips to know pretty much everything that he says. There isn’t anyone else that can figure it out quite like I can but I have had experience. We have been through the “I can’t talks” more than once.
Jamie was really nervous this morning. Just as soon as his eyes opened, he starting gagging. He was so upset and now is so glad that is it all over. He teases Dr. Rodgers about wanting a tattoo while he is asleep. He usually wants a race car, of course. Dr. Rodgers told him that he was going to hide it and make him search for it. When he came out of the operating room his trach tie had broken and his trach was 1/2 way falling out. I had to hold his trach in until we got a new tie to keep it from coming out. My honey came over to the PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit) until Jamie came back from the OR. He got to see him right out of surgery but of course Jamie slept right through it. I asked him if he remembered him being there and he said yes but I am not sure that he did. Well, anyway, here is the picture of his tattoo. Thanks Dr. Rodgers, he loves it! I just hope that it doesn’t race around his stomach all night and keep him awake.. lol
Dr. Rodgers also said that he may “paint” his airway where all of this scar tissue grows with a chemotherapy, that I can’t for the life of me remember the name right now. He said that is may help the scar tissue from growing so much and there isn’t really any side effects. That sure would be nice if it works with out any side effects. We will see. We go back October 30th to schedule his next surgery. He said we should do it again at three months. OK, I am going to lay down now. I am really just exhausted. Have a great night.
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Surgery Coming
September 19, 2008 by Admin · Leave a Comment
Well, Jamie is having surgery on September 23rd. He wanted to wait until after his birthday came and went before he had it again. His birthday was the 15th. He was 12 years old… WOW I can’t imagine that! I made him a cake but he didn’t try any of the icing this time. Usually he will take a little tiny bit on his finger and eat it. He tried some the week before so I guess that counts :-)
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The picture to the left is Jamie blowing his candles out. He had 12 on there and it took a few times to get them out but he did it… a little help with the last three by mom 
Take a few minutes to look below and see a couple of pics of our puppies, (My daughters, I call them)
I also got some more news tonight. My ex has changed jobs. There won’t be anymore week day visits with Jamie (Jeremy still isn’t going)… and the weekends will only be one night. Maybe that will make Jeremy want to go back again one day (since the time is so much less). Yesterday Jamie was picked up and Jeremy made such an effort to ride his bike in front of his dad to get some attention from him. He was trying to talk to him and be nice to him but he didn’t really get that done. His dad maybe said three words to him the whole time. I don’t know if he meant to do that or not and I don’t know if Jeremy noticed it so much since he was riding his bike… BUT… I noticed. I ask him everytime if he wants to go and he gets mad at me now. He told me, “I don’t want to go until further notice, why do you keep asking me?”… Then he told me to stop asking him, that he would let me know if he wanted to go. I hate this. I really wanted for his dad to see how he was hurting him and actually they could make up. Even yesterday, he was trying to reach out to his dad and didn’t get any response. How can a dad not see that???? How can he not see how much Jeremy is hurting??? Doesn’t he care??? I couldn’t live with myself if I thought that either one of my sons thought I hated them. My boyfriend shows him more love and attention then his own father and we only get to see him an average of once a week (he lives an hour away). I wanted to tell him, thank you. If you read this, I want you to know that you are appreciated. You are loved and valued and you can make them feel loved and valued. Something that their father should do and continues to fall short of…. all the time.
Haley
Grandma and Dottie Mae
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Halloween Desserts
I am so excited about Halloween. I just love this holiday. You get to dress up and be ANYTHING that you want to be and no one thinks you are crazy… or at least not as crazy as they would think you are if you did it any other time of the year!
I have been searching online for some Halloween recipes to make this year for the kids. I have put together a few of my favorites and will be including them here.
Spooky Eyeball Tacos
Why not start the night out with the
Spooky Eyeball Tacos????
20 min
40 min
6 servings, 2 tacos each
Ingredients Needed
Directions
MIX meat and seasoning mix. Shape into 36 (1-inch) balls; place in 15×10x1-inch baking pan.
BAKE at 350°F for 15 to 20 minutes or until cooked through. Fill each taco shell with 1 meatball; drizzle with salsa. Top with 2 meatballs dipped in sour cream. Garnish with olives to make “eyeballs.”
You can also make sure to make it healthier by substituting leaner groud beef and reduced fat Sour Cream.
Also an old favorite of mine…
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
After carving a pumpkin, rinse the seeds and remove any remaining pulp from them. Pat the seeds dry. Mix the seeds with several tablespoons of melted butter and a dash of Worchestershire sauce. Spread out the seeds on a cookie sheet and sprinkle them with salt. Bake in oven at 350 degrees, stirring occasionally, until seeds are brown and crispy. Allow the seeds to cool on paper towels before serving.
Enjoy!
And last but NOT LEAST a little treat for those animal lovers that is sure to get a few smiles, a few ewwwwws and even a few “what a great idea”’s….
THE KITTY LITTER CAKE
This is actually a very good cake… but don’t be surprised if some people just WON’T eat it… Go figure
- Kitty Litter Cake
Ingredients
1 white cake mix
2 large packages vanilla instant pudding mix, prepared
1 large package vanilla sandwich cookies
green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Roll candies
1 NEW kitty litter pan
1 NEW kitty litter pan liner
1 NEW pooper scooper
DIRECTIONS
Prepare cake mixes and bake according to directions (any size pans).
Prepare pudding mix and chill until ready to assemble.
Crumble white sandwich cookies in small batches in food processor, scraping often. Set aside all but about 1/4 cup. To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, add a few drops green food coloring and mix until completely colored.
When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl. Toss with half the remaining white cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding. Important: mix in just enough of the pudding to moisten it. You don’t want it too soggy. Combine gently.
Line a new, clean kitty litter box. Put the cake/pudding/cookie mixture into the litter box.
Put 3 unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until soft and pliable. Shape ends so they are no longer blunt, curving slightly. Repeat with 3 more Tootsie rolls bury them in the mixture. Sprinkle the other half of cookie crumbs over top. Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly on top of everything — this is supposed to look like the chlorophyll in kitty litter.
Heat 3 Tootsie Rolls in the microwave until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake; sprinkle with cookie crumbs. Spread remaining Tootsie Rolls over the top. For the coup de gras take one Tootsie Roll and heat until pliable, hang it over the side of the kitty litter box, sprinkling it lightly with cookie crumbs. Place the box on a newspaper and sprinkle a few of the cookie crumbs around for a truly disgusting effect!
Further notes:
I had a reader write in saying this recipe only needed half the amount of pudding. I personally liked the cake with the amount given in this recipe. But feel free to use this as a loose guideline, use more or less as you see the need. Also, since the layer of cookies (with the chloropyll green specks, covers the top, you could really use any flavor or flavors or cakes underneath.
Last but not least, you can also opt not to crumble the cakes, but rather layer them in the pan with the layers of pudding in between (much like you would layer a trifle into a trifle dish), sprinkle the top layer of pudding with a heavy layer of crumbled cookies. Same effect, different texture entirely to the dessert.
You can find many more Halloween recipes located @ http://www.rexanne.com/hwn-food.html
Enjoy your Halloween Ghoully Treats!!!
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Photos
January 1, 2008 by Admin · Leave a Comment
Here are two pictures of Jamie at 3 months old when he was finally starting to get better. This was just after his “rock bottom” in many ways. There have been many times where he has been this sick or maybe even worse but this is the one time I have a picture to show …Jamie at 3 1/2 months. Both are the same day just one a little closer up.
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