I wanted to get this written before it gets to late and I also need to get busy on my costume for Saturday. I haven't even started it yet and I need it by Saturday evening. I guess I better get busy. Enough on that.

Mom is doing rally good. They moved her to a room the first of the week and they are talking about her being able to go home in a few days. She is still having trouble with retaining fluid. Johnny told me that she was even losing fluid through on of her arms and they were having to keep a bandage on it. They don't seem to be to concerned about it. They also said that they will probably be able to control he heart problem with medicine. That is good to know. She is in no hurry to get out of the hospital, which is unlike her. She can't stand to be away from home and her dogs. Just continue to keep her in your prayers and thoughts.

Tomorrow is my long day. I have to work my regular job and then off to the bowling alley. I went by there on Wednesday and we had our lights put in for our cosmic bowling. It looked really cool. We can do different kinds of music. Maybe it will help getting people in the alley because everyone we have talked to in the past few weeks thought we were closed and we never have been.

Well, I better get off her and get some things done. Have a great weekend and I will keep you posted on my mom. I appreciate all your thoughts and prayer for her.

Well here goes another day. It has been a long day. We left this morning around eight-thirty and headed to moms. We had to go get Riley a movie and then some breakfast. Then we were off.

Alan said that he really had a hard time going this morning because he was afraid that she was just waiting to see him and she was just going to give up. This is going to be hard on all of us but we will take one day at the time and just pray that she will get better.

She was better this morning than she was at the beginning of the week but we still have a long way to go. She ate pretty good today and this is the best that she has eaten in several days. That was very encouraging. She is still retaining fluid which is not good. They had to up her medicine to get the fluids out. She is getting it every four hours. She is having a hard time remembering things and I think that upsets her more than being so sick. I think that part of that is from the medicine.

She was trying to tell me something this afternoon and she just got really frustrated when she could not remember what it was or how to explain it. I hope that will get better as she gets stronger. It is going to be a long haul.

I talked to Johnny after we got home and he promised me that when he found out something from the doctor that he would let me know. Johnny said that if he was not able to talk to a doctor in the morning that he was going to go hunt the doctor down and get some answers and he will. Not knowing is very hard. Mom told us today that the heart doctor told her that if her heart rate stayed as good as it has for the last few days that they may consider putting her in a regular room. I just what them to do what is the best for her.

I sure hope that my tomorrow starts out better than last week. It has been a long week. I will be off next Monday to go to the doctor in Birmingham for my final checkup for the cancer. I am going up on Sunday night and spend the night with Michael. I am looking froward to that. It will be good to see them. We have also talked about doing Christmas at his house this year. We will talk about that later on.

Well, I better get off her and hit the sack. Tomorrow is a long day with work and bowling. GO BAMA!!! They are still undefeated.

I thought I would update on my mom so those who read and care will know what is going on. I talked to my sister this afternoon and her heart rate is still up and she is still in ICU. They said that they could possibility shock the heart but they don't really want to do that because of here breathing problems. It is going to be a long road this time but we will take it one day at a time. She has started eating a little. They gave her something for anxiety on Tuesday night because she was afraid to go to sleep because she was afraid that she would forget to breath. Johnny told me that Wednesday morning that she looked better because the dark circles were gone and that she looked rested.

Alan and I are planning on going up on Sunday. He was going to go up on Saturday but I talked him into waiting until Sunday and I would go with him.

I did my post bowling on Wednesday and the first two games were not so great. I bowled a 103, 107, and then on the third game I blew it away with a 180. I was shocked with myself.

Tonight was a busy night because we had our fall festival at school tonight and I ended up in the obstacle course helping children up the wall to slid down on the other side. I told my boss there was a reason that I signed up for the popcorn machine and that was because I was to old to be pushing and pulling all those kids and that I was going to be to sore to come to work tomorrow. Yea right> I will be there but I probably will be one sore girl. I had to show them that I wasn't to old to give it a try myself. The first time I didn't make it and down I went but then I gave it another try and I did it. Hurray for me and I will be paying for it tomorrow.

Well, I better get myself up from here and get myself ready for bed. Have a great weekend!!!!

What a busy couple of days. This is going to be short and to the point because I am tired and ready to hit the sack, but I wanted to let you know how thisngs went with Christopher. His surgery went well and he is doing grsat. He was not happy with them when they told him that he had to pull off his underwear. He told them that he wasn't going to take his underwear off and they let him wear them int surgery and they took them off after he went to sleep. When he got into the recovery room he tried to stand up in the bed. He was ready to get out of that place. They finally got out of there around eleven thirty.

I was at the hospital when I received a phone call from my step dad about my mom. He took my mom to the emergency room early Monday morning. When they got to the hospital the doctor told Johnny that he did not think she would make it through the day. She was retaining fluid and was swollen really bad. The did an EKG and it showed that she had a heart attack but they did not know how long it had been since she had it. They also said that she has congestive heart failure and pneumonia. She was one sick lady and she still is. I left yesterday around noon to go check on her. She got unto me for not being at work and I told her that my work was taken care of and I was right where I needed to be. She had a good night and when we came in this morning she looked a hundred percent better. They gave her a lunch tray and took her off of clear liquids so I sure hope she is on the mend. They had to give her medicine to get her heart rate down because it was staying around 155 and they want it under 100. Within a couple of hours it dropped to 145 so we were encouraged about that. Little by little she is getting better and we will take what we can get.

I know that the more times she has these issues the closer we come to losing her and that is why I cherish every moment I have with her because I don't know how much longer I will have her. She was so bad this week that Johnny even went to talk to someone at the funeral home to get some idea how things would work out. We know that sometime we are going to have to facew this issue but for now she still has some fight in her.

She has got to be one of the strongest woman that I have know in my lifetime and I hope that I could be half as strong as she is. She is special, shes my mom.

I better get off her before I end up in tears. Keep her in your prayers. Her name is Sandie.