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I just wanted to report to all of you that Gary is having a much better day than the past 2 days! He had a fever last night and of course I was afraid that we would have to make another trek to UCI but his fever broke, the color came back into his face and he looks great today!
He smiled on several occasions today! I am just so happy to see that! I know to most of you it does not seems to be that big of a deal but it is to me and I actually saw a glimmer of the old Gary today! YEAH!!!!
I am off to get kids, do homework, to a staff meeting and baseball practice!
Love,
L
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Another First From The Sallee House
So, Jax has given me the bird and tried to shave his legs. These are definite "firsts" in our house. Tonight Gary had his own "first"! So exciting and awesome. Gary actually sat at the dinner table with us and ate his entire dinner! That is HUGE for our house! Normally, the kids and I sit in the kitchen and eat and Gary lays on the couch in a 1/2 recline to eat his meals. I would love to eat in the family room with Gary but that would mean that I would have to allow the kids to eat in there as well and THAT is a NO NO! My children (not all of them but 1 in particular) is incredibly absent-minded while eating!
Tonight, the Marvel's cooked an amazing dinner for us and we all sat at the dining room table - candles were lit and football was on in the background! It was a great night! The boys played Pokemon on their DS's (what a shocker) and we had great conversation while Gary and Don bar b qued some great chicken. Thanks Marvel's!
I wanted to give you some information about Gary and his ongoing recovery. After going to the doctor and then talking with several people including Ren about recovery and how seemingly long is has been I realize it has not been that long after all. Gary had surgery less than a month ago.
I think when people call me and ask me in a hopefully optomistic tone how Gary is I hate saying that he really is still not good. In my mind I am thinking the cancer is gone, the surgery is over, he is home and now it can only get better - and fast. Boy, I am wrong. It has been hard for me to watch him struggle day after day and I keep hoping for that one day that he will tell me how much better he is feeling.
Don't get me wrong. He is healing and he will get better. It just won't happen as fast as some of us think it will. So, my new approach and response is exactly what the doctors told me and exactly what I have been denying the past couple of weeks. Gary will not start to really feel much better for about 3 months post-op! The estimated recovery time stinks it is a fact and my job is to be super supportive and positive and patient! So that is exactly what I will be!
So, I need to go to bed now before I pass out on the couch. I will continue to keep you posted!
Love, L
Random info - The new bachelor is hot, I can't stand Spencer and Heidi, the Cheetah girls is a great dancer, South Park is a nasty show, Jax is going to be a Whoopie Cushion for halloween and thank God Hobie is getting fixed at the end of October! Hobie is quite dangerous around ANY female dog right now!
Tonight, the Marvel's cooked an amazing dinner for us and we all sat at the dining room table - candles were lit and football was on in the background! It was a great night! The boys played Pokemon on their DS's (what a shocker) and we had great conversation while Gary and Don bar b qued some great chicken. Thanks Marvel's!
I wanted to give you some information about Gary and his ongoing recovery. After going to the doctor and then talking with several people including Ren about recovery and how seemingly long is has been I realize it has not been that long after all. Gary had surgery less than a month ago.
I think when people call me and ask me in a hopefully optomistic tone how Gary is I hate saying that he really is still not good. In my mind I am thinking the cancer is gone, the surgery is over, he is home and now it can only get better - and fast. Boy, I am wrong. It has been hard for me to watch him struggle day after day and I keep hoping for that one day that he will tell me how much better he is feeling.
Don't get me wrong. He is healing and he will get better. It just won't happen as fast as some of us think it will. So, my new approach and response is exactly what the doctors told me and exactly what I have been denying the past couple of weeks. Gary will not start to really feel much better for about 3 months post-op! The estimated recovery time stinks it is a fact and my job is to be super supportive and positive and patient! So that is exactly what I will be!
So, I need to go to bed now before I pass out on the couch. I will continue to keep you posted!
Love, L
Random info - The new bachelor is hot, I can't stand Spencer and Heidi, the Cheetah girls is a great dancer, South Park is a nasty show, Jax is going to be a Whoopie Cushion for halloween and thank God Hobie is getting fixed at the end of October! Hobie is quite dangerous around ANY female dog right now!
Friday, September 21, 2007
Just So YOU REALLY Know
I would like to apologize for not sending out thank you cards yet. I honestly have been overwhelmed with almost everything in my life and things have most defenitely caught up with me over the past two weeks or so. I think about sending them out every day - in fact every hour of every day if truth be known!
We start out every single day of our lives thanking God for placing all of you in our lives. We absolutely would have never wanted to go through this without all of your prayers, friendships, love, support, smiles, notes, meals, "pop overs" and everything else!
BTW - A thank you to whoever sent me the manilla envelope with the Starbucks Card (there are no words to tell you how much I LOVE Starbucks!!!) and the awesome Celebrity Gossip Magazine (another guilty pleasure)!
I pormise that I will get the thank yous out eventually. It is truly not because we are not thankful or have not thought about thanking you. It is super important to both of us that you all know how grateful we are. Please be patient with me - we all know I am the one having to write them all out! I have 3 page list of people we need to thank and I hope all of you are reading this so that you know how grateful we are despite my lagging on sending out something more formal!
GARY UPDATE
We went to the doctor office yesterday and the entire team is very pleased with Gary's progress! He does not have to go back until December 13th!! No Chemo and No Radiation! YEAH!!! He drove today for the first time in a long while and is now reclining on the couch watching..................3 guesses...............anyone???....................The History Channel! They should come to our house and shoot a commercial! Gary would be their biggest fan and best advertiser!
He is still in pain but is now taking Advil and trying to stay as still as possible. When he is still the pain is completely managable. Please pray that he learns to use his new "plumbing" and that he is able to begin to network with people so that he can get back to work once his healing is complete!
I am going to the Angels Game tonight with our 5th & 6th grade kids from church! We always have a great time with the kids and since the Angels are in such a great place the crowd should be nice and wild!!! GO ANGELS!!!!
Jax and Hobie and I are eating turkey bacon and looking at Halloweeen Costumes. He wants to be Homer Simpson. The 3rd child is sooooo different! Homer Simpson? My kids don't even watch that show but they did ask to see the movie when it came out and of course we said NO WAY!
The boys are home and we are going to get ready for BIG BANG FRIDAY!!!
Have a great Friday!
Blessings,
Lisa and Gary
We start out every single day of our lives thanking God for placing all of you in our lives. We absolutely would have never wanted to go through this without all of your prayers, friendships, love, support, smiles, notes, meals, "pop overs" and everything else!
BTW - A thank you to whoever sent me the manilla envelope with the Starbucks Card (there are no words to tell you how much I LOVE Starbucks!!!) and the awesome Celebrity Gossip Magazine (another guilty pleasure)!
I pormise that I will get the thank yous out eventually. It is truly not because we are not thankful or have not thought about thanking you. It is super important to both of us that you all know how grateful we are. Please be patient with me - we all know I am the one having to write them all out! I have 3 page list of people we need to thank and I hope all of you are reading this so that you know how grateful we are despite my lagging on sending out something more formal!
GARY UPDATE
We went to the doctor office yesterday and the entire team is very pleased with Gary's progress! He does not have to go back until December 13th!! No Chemo and No Radiation! YEAH!!! He drove today for the first time in a long while and is now reclining on the couch watching..................3 guesses...............anyone???....................The History Channel! They should come to our house and shoot a commercial! Gary would be their biggest fan and best advertiser!
He is still in pain but is now taking Advil and trying to stay as still as possible. When he is still the pain is completely managable. Please pray that he learns to use his new "plumbing" and that he is able to begin to network with people so that he can get back to work once his healing is complete!
I am going to the Angels Game tonight with our 5th & 6th grade kids from church! We always have a great time with the kids and since the Angels are in such a great place the crowd should be nice and wild!!! GO ANGELS!!!!
Jax and Hobie and I are eating turkey bacon and looking at Halloweeen Costumes. He wants to be Homer Simpson. The 3rd child is sooooo different! Homer Simpson? My kids don't even watch that show but they did ask to see the movie when it came out and of course we said NO WAY!
The boys are home and we are going to get ready for BIG BANG FRIDAY!!!
Have a great Friday!
Blessings,
Lisa and Gary
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Beware of sharp objects!
This is a good story.
Jax is in the bathtub today taking a nice, warm bubblebath. He has the usual toys that squirt massive amounts of water all over the walls despite the fact that I have told him on numerous occasions not to squirt up and on the walls. Anyhow, I leave him in the tub to go into our bedroom to put laundry away. I give a shout out to him every couple minutes to make sure he is okay and sure enough he lets me know each time that he is.
All of the sudden he tells me that he is done and wants out of the tub now. I hear him and continue doing what I am doing because I am in the middle of a task. I tell him to let the water out and to let me know when the water has drained so that I can get him a towel. He tells me that he wants me in the bathroom NOW!
I go into the bathroom and he tells me that he is bleeding. He begins to cry. I look over to see blood on his leg and then I catch a glimpse of the cover that goes over the head of my razor. Uh oh.
I walk over to him and get a closer look at his leg. It is bleeding, not profusely, but it is bleeding. I can see 3 perfectly spaced razor marks on his leg and I ask him if he was playing with my razor.
He denies playing with the razor then eventually cops up to it and tells me through the tears that his leg hurts! No kidding!
Zach got him a bandage and we proceeded to have a discussion as to why boys don't use razors let alone shave their legs!
This is a first in the Sallee household. Zach and Nate I don't think have ever even thought about shaving their legs before. Leave it to Jax! He seems to be jockeying to be "the first" at lots of things lately!
Have a great night and hide your razors! :)
Love, L
Jax is in the bathtub today taking a nice, warm bubblebath. He has the usual toys that squirt massive amounts of water all over the walls despite the fact that I have told him on numerous occasions not to squirt up and on the walls. Anyhow, I leave him in the tub to go into our bedroom to put laundry away. I give a shout out to him every couple minutes to make sure he is okay and sure enough he lets me know each time that he is.
All of the sudden he tells me that he is done and wants out of the tub now. I hear him and continue doing what I am doing because I am in the middle of a task. I tell him to let the water out and to let me know when the water has drained so that I can get him a towel. He tells me that he wants me in the bathroom NOW!
I go into the bathroom and he tells me that he is bleeding. He begins to cry. I look over to see blood on his leg and then I catch a glimpse of the cover that goes over the head of my razor. Uh oh.
I walk over to him and get a closer look at his leg. It is bleeding, not profusely, but it is bleeding. I can see 3 perfectly spaced razor marks on his leg and I ask him if he was playing with my razor.
He denies playing with the razor then eventually cops up to it and tells me through the tears that his leg hurts! No kidding!
Zach got him a bandage and we proceeded to have a discussion as to why boys don't use razors let alone shave their legs!
This is a first in the Sallee household. Zach and Nate I don't think have ever even thought about shaving their legs before. Leave it to Jax! He seems to be jockeying to be "the first" at lots of things lately!
Have a great night and hide your razors! :)
Love, L
Monday, September 17, 2007
Happy Tuesday
Well, the first official day of the week has ended. The boys came home from school yesterday super hyper so we went swimming for a few hours. They came home and did their homework and the evening was nice and calm!
Sunday was a very rough day for Gary and for me. Gary was not feeling well all night Saturday Night and we needed to get to the bottom of why he seemed to be regressing. He has been in a lot of pain and it is very hard for me to see him like that.
Well, he is doing better. The doctor has put him back on pain killers (Gary refused for a while to take them and was only taking a few Tylenol a day)! Yeah for the doctors! He will actually listen to them. Why are men like that? I wonder why they are so resistent to listen to us. Really, I have no problem admitting when I am wrong. It truly doen't happen very often (maybe 1X a year) but I am big enough to own up to my wrongs! :) I think some of my close friends might have even heard me utter a sorry or two over the past few years! :)
Gary has an appointment on Thursday for a check up. I know he is healing well and we pray that he continues to do so. Please pray for peace for Gary. He is struggling with being home and down and not being able to work and provide for us right now. God has healed him and with our networking and praying he will get a job too! Timing, timing, timing! It is hard to wait - especially for a man. Here we go on the whole man thing again. I will stop right here and now!
Off to get Jax and get back to work.
Have a great day and enjoy the Fall-like weather!
Love,
L
Sunday was a very rough day for Gary and for me. Gary was not feeling well all night Saturday Night and we needed to get to the bottom of why he seemed to be regressing. He has been in a lot of pain and it is very hard for me to see him like that.
Well, he is doing better. The doctor has put him back on pain killers (Gary refused for a while to take them and was only taking a few Tylenol a day)! Yeah for the doctors! He will actually listen to them. Why are men like that? I wonder why they are so resistent to listen to us. Really, I have no problem admitting when I am wrong. It truly doen't happen very often (maybe 1X a year) but I am big enough to own up to my wrongs! :) I think some of my close friends might have even heard me utter a sorry or two over the past few years! :)
Gary has an appointment on Thursday for a check up. I know he is healing well and we pray that he continues to do so. Please pray for peace for Gary. He is struggling with being home and down and not being able to work and provide for us right now. God has healed him and with our networking and praying he will get a job too! Timing, timing, timing! It is hard to wait - especially for a man. Here we go on the whole man thing again. I will stop right here and now!
Off to get Jax and get back to work.
Have a great day and enjoy the Fall-like weather!
Love,
L
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Thank God for Sundays
Today was a down day for Gary. He is trying so incredibly hard to make it through each day and he would love to have just one day when he wasn't uncomfortable or in pain or compromised in some way. When I think about how long he has been hurting it has basically been this entire 2007 calendar year. That is one heck of a long time to feel cruddy. Like I said before this pain is different. It does not make it better. But, he is healing and we have so much to be thankful for.
I look forward to Sundays for many reasons. Every other week we get to hang with our Home Group - 10 adults and 13 kids! We also get to spend time with so many of our friends from church. Since Gary has been down and out John Grudynski & Matt Sather have been helping me out with set up and tear down each week. All of my teachers have helped me so much with some added responsibility including cleanup! I just love going to church and I love the boys being a part of our church family!
Zach has a baseball game tomorrow afternoon. I have to do my Grocery Game list tonight so I can save some serious $$$$ at Ralphs! We are having dinner with friends tomorrow night and we of course have to put the finishing touches on the homework! It is always action packed on Sundays!
Evidentally the boys watched a really interesting show today called Ghost Stories. I just want to say that it was not on my watch! I understand that these are "real" stories. Have the boys ever watched anything like that? NO!!!!!!!!! Now, I am paying the price. Jax is afraid to go to sleep in his room and is waiting for me to either sleep with him or he wants to sleep in our bedroom! What a great show! Can't wait for them to watch another episode!
Hobie is barking and I need to tend to the little guy and make sure Gary is comfortable and doesn't need anything before I go back to cleaning the house!
I hope everyone has a great evening and a wonderful Sunday!
Love & Smiles,
L
I look forward to Sundays for many reasons. Every other week we get to hang with our Home Group - 10 adults and 13 kids! We also get to spend time with so many of our friends from church. Since Gary has been down and out John Grudynski & Matt Sather have been helping me out with set up and tear down each week. All of my teachers have helped me so much with some added responsibility including cleanup! I just love going to church and I love the boys being a part of our church family!
Zach has a baseball game tomorrow afternoon. I have to do my Grocery Game list tonight so I can save some serious $$$$ at Ralphs! We are having dinner with friends tomorrow night and we of course have to put the finishing touches on the homework! It is always action packed on Sundays!
Evidentally the boys watched a really interesting show today called Ghost Stories. I just want to say that it was not on my watch! I understand that these are "real" stories. Have the boys ever watched anything like that? NO!!!!!!!!! Now, I am paying the price. Jax is afraid to go to sleep in his room and is waiting for me to either sleep with him or he wants to sleep in our bedroom! What a great show! Can't wait for them to watch another episode!
Hobie is barking and I need to tend to the little guy and make sure Gary is comfortable and doesn't need anything before I go back to cleaning the house!
I hope everyone has a great evening and a wonderful Sunday!
Love & Smiles,
L
Friday, September 14, 2007
What My Child Learned At Kindergarten Today
I had to write. With a smirk on my face and much to Lori's dismay I have to tell you what Jax learned today at school. Did he learn to tie his shoes? Nope. Did he learn AEIOU & sometimes Y? Not that either. Did he learn how to be an excellent line leader? No. This is what he did learn today. Here goes the conversation at pick up. This all transpired within a 10 second timeframe.
Jax:Hi Mom. Guess what? 2 kids in my class JUST NOW said THE F word!
I think my eyes got REALLY BIG.
Me: Honey, are you sure they said THE F word?
Jax: Yes they did Mom and they do not get their Thanks ticket today. (their daily reward)
I am thinking but I don't want to ask if he REALLY knows what THE F word is.
I asked Lori and sure enough THE F word was uttered by a student or two!
I laugh but I think I would hate to be the parent whose child actually uttered THE WORD at school! We have all been there (in an embarrassing situation) with our kids. I am glad it's not mine! He saves the whole giving me THE BIRD for home viewing only!
Have a great afternoon!
Lisa
Jax:Hi Mom. Guess what? 2 kids in my class JUST NOW said THE F word!
I think my eyes got REALLY BIG.
Me: Honey, are you sure they said THE F word?
Jax: Yes they did Mom and they do not get their Thanks ticket today. (their daily reward)
I am thinking but I don't want to ask if he REALLY knows what THE F word is.
I asked Lori and sure enough THE F word was uttered by a student or two!
I laugh but I think I would hate to be the parent whose child actually uttered THE WORD at school! We have all been there (in an embarrassing situation) with our kids. I am glad it's not mine! He saves the whole giving me THE BIRD for home viewing only!
Have a great afternoon!
Lisa
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