Nana Judi

I went to a ladies brunch at church today and Kay Alford (whose son Johnnie knows every one in town, and knows every thing about them) asked me how my brother Sam’s face was. I didn’t know anything about Sam’s face. He had cancer surgery on his nose in June, and they removed (and rebuilt) half of his nose. Now he had a new cancer removed from his face, in the crease beside his nose above his mustache. Then she asked my how my nephew was doing, and I didn’t know anything about that either! Sandee’s youngest son, Trent, had crashed on a 4-wheeler last week-end, and had spent most of the week at Harborview! He had fractured three vertrebrae, the 5th, 6th, and 7th cervical vertebrae. For you non-medical people, those are the bottom vertebrae in the neck, and as a result of the injury his right arm is paralyzed! The hope is that the paralysis is the result of swelling in that area, and he does seem to be getting more use in his hand and fingers. He came home on Thursday, to his mom and dad’s house, but is wearing a stiff cervical collar which he has to wear 24-7 for the next 10 to 12 weeks. apparantly the fractures are not the kind that push bone into the foramina through which the nerves pass, but the MRI showed bulging at those levels, they were not sure whether it was a bulging disc, or just swelling. We’re all voting for swelling which will go down in time!

I assured Kay that I loved my family, and was interested in what was going on, but I was in Burlington helping Jenni and Chris pack for their move last week-end, (they’re moving this week-end) and when I get home from work, between 7 and 7:30, I just eat dinner and veg for the rest of the evening! As soon as I got home from the brunch I went to see my family and found out the details.

Another lady asked me if my nephew Josh was in trouble with the law! She had been at the courthouse and saw the name Josh Harvey on the docket for breaking and entering, or some similar charge. Luckily, that was some other Josh Harvey!!

So, I hope I am caught up now. I certainly hope no other catastrophes have attacked my family that I don’t know about!

I hope when the Lord brings the Webster family to your mind you will send up a prayer, that they will not have to carve away any more of Sam’s face, and that Trent will rapidly regain use of his arm. Trent also has a gash on his head, I understand from his helmet, which thank God he was wearing. Otherwise we would be having a funeral. He landed on his head and shoulder on a large rock, and the rock won!

Well, I just noticed that the time is 11:50 PM, so guess I should post this and get to bed. Tomorrow is church, hopefully I won’t find out any thing more disturbing!

I had such a good idea for a post, Sunday I walked in to church, and there was a good friend of Tamara’s from high school, Mandy used-to-be-Bristol, with her husband and two adorable girl, visiting from New Jersey, also Mandy’s mom, Debbie.  I sat in front of them and looked over front and center and there were Al Albert and his good friends who used to come to church here, the Phillips, visiting from Arkansas!  Then I looked over my shoulder, and lo and behold, there were Nicole and Hans Stol and their three girlies, visiting from Michigan!!  Well, I thought to my self, I can just take pictures of them all and put them on my blog!  Good idea, self, I thought.  Well, the Phillipses left before I got a chance even to say Hi, but Nicole and Mandy and families were still visiting, so…I rounded up Hans, Nicole, Elizabeth, Morgan and Haley to take a picture…only to find my camera had dead batteries…Shoot!!!  The Stols will be here for a couple more weeks, so I can still get pics of them, but Mandy and family were leaving in a couple days.  Opportunities lost!  Oh, well.  It was great to see and visit with them and hold my newest “granddaughter” …speaking of which, you probably all know…Jenni and Chris are having a GIRL!!!  I am soooooo excited!   Jen called me at work today, after her Ultrasound, and by the time I got off the phone several people in the department already knew!  And it didn’t take me long to inform nearly every one else within  hearing distance!  On the way home from work I called several others, until my cell phone (or as Aidan says “selfnone”) batteries went dead…what is up with batteries any way!!

Well,I have to go to work in the morning, so guess I’d better hit the sack.

Jen and Nicole and kidsOriginally uploaded by Nana Judi.

Jen’s best friend (before Chris and besides Tamara) Nicole and her girls (before Haley – actually, Haley is behind Eamon and Morgan and Jen’s new baby is behind Aidan and Elizabeth! Nicole got another girl, will Jenni get another boy? Nicole was visiting from Michigan and came to visit Jen. I came too, Debbie was supposed to come too, but chickened out at the last minute. We had a good time though, even without the other Mom!

I am a new blogger, created by my daughter Jenni and her husband Chris! They tell me I can write anything I want in here! Well, watch out world, Here I come!!