Karen’s Neighborhood

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I met a lovely gal in Photography class, Sherry. She as bee thinking of starting a blog here, and I hope she does. I think she would like it. Anyway, we decided to go out and explore the Tribal graveyard and some abandoned houses yesterday with our cameras. At the graveyard it was very interesting to see so many names there that are names for places in my state, like Seattle and Cowlitz. It was also kind of disturbing to see so many small markers with no names on them, just the words "at rest". So many anonymous. w

After that we went and found these three abandoned houses I have seen several times out of the side window of our car. They were in such bad decay I would not dare go inside, especially the first building, the floors had fallen away from the walls, and molding on the bottom of the wall was framing open air below it. The other side was another house that was filled with garbage. Piles of trash bags ripped open by people looking for treasure, animals looking for food, and hard winds and rains. We jokes as we walked around about how recent our tetanus shot was, and how if we fell through the soft spot on the ground to save our cameras. It was so overstimulating. So much stuff. Then there was a two story shop, it was burned recently. Opening up the roof for lovely skylights.

 

Hi guys,

For anyone that has been following this soap opera, my Uncle came out of the surgery at 5pm...so it ran from 7:30am to 5pm.  Can you imagine how tired the surgeon and staff must have been?  The first surgery my Uncle had, when he was brought into the city because of that incompetent small-hospital surgeon, was begun around 8pm and lasted into the wee hours of the morning.  She caused "severe injuries", we were told.  Well, trying to murder the poor man would be considered "severe", I would think.  *smile*

Anyways, he made it through and is now in ICU.  It just is up to him to survive.  Whether he has the strength left or not is yet to be seen, and as most people know, patients don't usually die in the Operating Room but during recovery.  His poor body has been through so much, and he even went into a deep depression while waiting to build up his strength for this second surgery (they gave him anti-depressants for that).  He still wasn't strong enough, but he hasn't been able to keep any food down for the past 4 days, didn't have the strength to walk anymore, and his legs and toes were beginning to have spasms and twitching.  They couldn't wait any longer.  But he made it through, the tough old man!  I just hope he recovers because the staff has been making us quite aware that the body can only take so much.  And he was weak to begin with, going into this second major surgery.  Apparently they stated that it was more complicated than they had anticipated.  Well, if you have bile leaking out into your body.....since the first repair surgery wasn't a COMPLETE success but they were just trying to give him time to gain his strength.....I can't imagine how many organs and body structures that bile could have damaged.  He was just slowly dying again, poor man.

Prayers would be appreciated.  He has quite a battle in front of him, and he may just want to go Home and be done with this world by now.  Who could blame him?  Remind me never to get gall stones...or ANY stones for that matter!   Actually, no surgeries would be a good idea all around!!!!  Lol.

Thanks for reading our little soap opera, and I'll let you know how it goes.  Thanks.

Got two hours of sleep on call last night; came home this morning and slept til 5 pm and still feel like crap.  B had a better day; he got a surprise call from the highest boss and is being transferred in two weeks to headquarters and getting an early raise in salary.  Headquarters will be 50 miles away from our new place though.  An old college friend came to town for a conference and I was supposed to meet him this evening.  I felt like a zombie when I woke up at 5 pm though, and as I talked to him over the phone it irked me how stuffy he now sounds.  He's doing residency at a fancy Ivy League university, has gotten a prestigious fellowship at the same place for next year, and just doesn't sound as fun as he used to.  I hadn't seen him in a few years and wanted to meet, but after our phone call, just didn't feel it anymore. 

B wants to visit his mother in rural Maine this weekend.  The town is rural enough that there isn't even a bed and breakfast there.  I booked a room in the nearest touristy town-- 20 miles away.  Having scored five star luxury hotels on priceline.com for $50 a night in the past, it seems absurd to be paying over a hundred dollars a night in rural Maine, for a room that reminds me of an old woman's spare bedroom in the attic.  But I'm jumping at the chance to escape the city and the ICU for a weekend in the country with B and the dogs (and the future in-laws).  Running away is what I like best.

I have a migraine this morning. I may have to eat some young.

i put up a post in which i let my neighbours know that i'd put auto approve back on since the abuse had subsided but just before i closed down for the night i changed my mind because i just knew someone would take advantage of that announcement - so i turned the approval back on whilst i slept and sure enough - when i signed in the next day the abuse had already started - bluebottle had left me comments regardless of the post just to annoy me and provoke me and to be blunt about it this man is just like a spoilt child - as a polite notice bluebottle take this is a warning - if you ever try to do anything like that again i will give you a reaction but it will not be the reaction you want and you will not find it funny or amusing - do yourself a favour and back off