Sunday, August 31, 2008
Jed's Camp fish!
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This is Jed at camp. Katrina and Dr. Jeff sent us some pics. I will put up the link to the rest. (on the right with the Livi pics). All is ok here. I will update later!
Friday, August 29, 2008
Gamma Phi girls!
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Hi all. everything is pretty calm right now....that's good! Yesterday DJ was here, he and Jed played for the afternoon. Today we went to breakfast with Grace and then LV, K-rob and Christie came from Penn State to visit. LV and K-rob graduated last year but LV is now working on her masters and K-rob was up there visiting. Christie is a THON chair for Gamma Phi. She came to the hospital before to see Jed and played cards! They all went bowling, it was great to see them. That's all for now I think, for some reason I am just really tired! Maybe it's the rain. I think I need a nap! Jed of course is playing Wii. His arm is sore from the new Mario baseball game he got!
Love Jed and Kristin
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Christie, I'm sorry we didn't get to see you, we will soon. LV and K-Rob are headed here on Friday to see Jed.
Gotta go
Leve Jed and Kristin
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
So that's all for now!
Love Jed and Kristin
Monday, August 25, 2008
His counts are slowly going up white count was .1 on Saturday, .2 on Sunday & .3 today. They don't want us to leave with his counts so low and his pain is pretty bad right now too.
We are working on that, they upped his morphine dose and that seems to be helping.
I'll let ya'll know what's happening.
Love J & K
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Connor, Jed is sorry he missed your birthday party.
Ok, I will try to keep you all posted. I have no hotspot so it won't be often!
Love Jed and Kristin
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Clearlake California
Monday, August 18, 2008
Danny is in California. He waited to pack until the last minute hoping I would get home in time to do it for him...but I didn't. He did ok except he took 1 plaid converse shoe and 1 brown converse shoe and the brown one is Jed's! He is with his mom right now and will go to see his son later in the week.
I have been cleaning out the closet since we got home Saturday afternoon. It looks soo good, the rest of the room is trashed right now but the closet is awesome. I took 4 contractors bags of stuff out of there, 3 regular size garbage bags and a couple bags of garbage! Amazing! Sorry Dan but the Martini glass shirt has gone on to Goodwill along with the bowling pin shirt! So sad! I guess that's all the news for now.
TO my friend Denise at Hershey Med center, I wish you good luck in whatever you decide to do but I am so sad you won't be on the floor to entertain me anymore! The rooms will never be really clean again~! Who will come in everyday at 3pm and chat with me for an hour? Oh well!
Love Jed and Kristin
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Danny should be landing is Sacramento pretty soon then he is driving to his mom's. She lives on the other side of Nappa. The switchbacks to get over the mountain to Clear Lake make me car sick! He is staying in Clearlake for a few days and then heading to Orovill to see his son and granddaughters. Of course that was the plan but as soon as he lands I am sure it will all change!
So tonight Savannah is going to a friend's, just Jed and me! I already have Danny's side of the closet cleared out! That's my project for the week...our bedroom. Wish me luck. I am hoping to actually put blankets in my blanket chest (it's full of magazines) he will never noticed that I emptied it!
Gotta go, glad to be home
Love Jed and Kristin
Friday, August 15, 2008
Are you watching the Olympics? go USA!
Ok, hi to all,
Love Jed and Kristin
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Jed
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The smile in this picture leads one to think Jed is in a good mood...not so much! He was sooo crabby today. One minute he was fine then he was yelling and hitting Savannah. He had a melt down over some tie-dye thing. Then he saw mini corn dogs in the freezer and got happy. He insisted that we make them but when we explained that these were meatless corn dogs he got ticked off. But as you can see he enjoyed them anyway! Then tonight he lost it because I only had 2 hot dog buns left..which should have been fine. Only Savannah and Jed were eating a hot dog. Well Jed broke his bun & he CANNOT eat a hot dog if the bun is broken. He yelled at Savannah and demanded that she trade buns with him. She had already eaten part of hers but he didn't care! She, of course said "no" So that started a screaming match. He ended up stomping up the stairs and slamming his door telling us he hated us. Then the ankle that was hurting him yesterday but hadn't been mentioned today suddenly started to hurt...so much that he "couldn't move" & was going to starve because he couldn't eat the hot dog with the broken bun and he couldn't get downstairs to look for something else. Of course he made a very dramatic trip down from his bedroom to search the fridge. After much loud moaning and crying he decided he was just going to starve himself. There was no food that he could eat in this house. I decide that was a good time to take a ride, I stopped at the tanning salon and of course stopped for new BUNS! I got home and made a new hot dog (the other had been cut in half and they don't taste good if you do that?!) he also had some cut potatoes in the broiler because the baked ones I made earlier were not hot anymore and "baked potatoes are sooo yucky if you have to warm them up"!? Well king Jed ended up with a fresh,y grilled dog on a NEW bun & some potatoes. The kid that was going to die of starvation ate less than half the dog and about 5 potato slices. But then he was happy....until he couldn't find some cord for his computer thing and started to freak out again. He was yelling, I was yelling, Savannah started to yell so Dan went and found the cord. All is calm now...except me! I want to eat cookies and hide somewhere. I even made sticky buns with icing...great for my diet. Tomorrow is weigh in day....oh yipee. It has taken me almost 5 months to lose 12lbs. I am not that dedicated I guess! I really want cookies right now. Many many cookies.
Tomorrow we head to Hershey, if his counts are good we will be admitted for a few days. we need to be out before Saturday...it's Boating Day.. you know the one I thought was 2 weeks ago?! Danny leaves Saturday morning for California....lucky him.
Welp at least I can watch Phelps swim tonight. How about that relay??!!!!!! Go USA!
oh here we go again, he can't find his ipod and "Savannah HAS to load more songs, it MUST be done by tomorrow. King Jed has spoken. Danny is looking for his Ipod. I want cookies.
Love Jed and Kristin
Jed Tie-dying
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Jed slept till noon and then woke up and tie-dyed a shirt for Dan.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
When we got home at noon we walked 2 blocks to the Red Lion street fair for food. He got fries and a lemonade, we saw Grace, Megan and Jase & some of the Dietz gang. Then we came home and he slept until 5:30pm. Of course after a week of camp all the TVs in the house are on and he is using his computer! Oh and the pizza guy just dropped off our pizza! So all is calming down and getting back to normal.
Tomorrow we are having breakfast with Mom, Dad, and A & Jack, I think Adam, Tiersa and Livi-Mac will be there too. Later in the afternoon Mrs. Walker, Jed's 3rd grade teacher, and her son are picking Jed up to go to a York Revolution game. (they are our local team). They get to go on the field before the game and throw balls with the team, some player from the Orioles will be there and they are sitting with some important baseball person too. As you can tell I am baseball challenged but he is excited to go. The also get to do stuff after the game but he said he might call me to come get him a little early!
So that's what's up here. As soon as I have some pictures I will post them.
Ok, that's all, gotta get ready for my Baltimore homey, Phelps, to swim for the gold!!!!!
Did you watch the opening ceremonies? WOW, really awesome. I just wish they could be nice to the Dali Lama and his monks.
Love, Jed and Kristin
Oh, Hey Ralph...I forgot to tell you what a big hit your card was. This family makes damn fine snow people! Thanks!
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Savannah, Grace and I got pedicures today!!!! whoo-hoo..go us! I sat here the other morning waiting for Jed to get up so we could go someplace...needless to say I waited for a while before I realized ..oh yeah, he's not here! oops!
So anyway I will pick him up on Saturday and Tuesday we go back to clinic to see if his counts are up. If they are, he goes in for a few days of chemo. I hope they are not high enough because I have an appointment Thursday at 6pm that I have changed 4 times! Oh well. But I don't want to go in the hospital the following week because Dan will be in California and I wanted to clean out the closet while he is gone ( I can't do that while he is here, he keeps EVERYTHING)!
I'll be back when I have more news!
Love J & K
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Jed and Katrina
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Well, Jed is at camp! As soon as we got there we saw Katrina. She is our childlife expert on the 7th floor. She stayed with us and got Jed all registered. We met 3 or 4 counselor guys that will be in his cabin. After hanging around for a little bit the counselors said "come on guys lets go check out our cabins. Jed said goodbye and off they went! He is going to have a blast. The guys we met were awesome. One is a cancer survivor from Texas and one was a past THON dancer, and morale captain. No I did not cry!!! I only got a little upset when the nurse asked me for his meds. I wasn't sure if I should let go of the bag! But I did. She said "I'm a nurse, I do meds all the time and we have been doing camp for a very long time" so I guess she was qualified. One of our 7th floor nurses was there. Jen, she is a cancer survivor, she has had 2 bone marrow transplants and is now a peds oncology nurse. She met her husband at this camp. He has also had 2 bone marrow transplants and is all gown up and healthy! I wish I could watch how much fun Jed is having on a hidden camera! He just marched off with his pillow and sweatshirt right on up the hill. I could see his little orange hat through the trees! Ok so now what do I do? I need to go get a case of Mike's Lemonade! I won't update again until I hear something from Jed. I will either pick him up Friday morning to be admitted for chemo or Saturday afternoon to come home! They will do his counts there wed or thurs,
Alrighty I will be back in a few days with Camp News!
Love Jed and Kristin
Saturday, August 2, 2008
He does leave tomorrow for camp. He packed yesterday. We followed his list and got it all packed. I hope he feels better. He will have blood counts done at camp on Wed. or Thurs. If they are good I will go get him on Friday afternoon and he will be admitted for chemo. He is hoping his counts are still low so he won't miss the last night of camp! He is very excited about it. I just hope he feels ok & I hope he has a good time.
Oh, A big congrats to my cousin Michael and his wife Catherine and their son Will, they have added a member to their family..baby Cate has arrived and all is well. Congrats to you guys!
I guess that's all for now. Everyone went back to sleep very quickly when I gave them the news about Boating Day! I'm awake though. Yipee.
Love Jed and Kristin