Ludlow's Place - The Latest Shtuff

I am constantly forgetting to put this in reverse order. If it seems it's been awhile since it's been updated, please scroll down to see if I messed up again :)

6-27-02

Well, all in all, the biopsy wasn't so bad. Don't get me wrong, I was sweating bullets and don't want to go through it again, but I've been through worse. And so far the cyst hasn't hurt at all, so it must have relieved some pressure removing some of it. He said it didn't have any fluid in it, but it still feels 100% better. We get the results on July 2nd.

I've been working my butt off on the genealogy pages and have almost everything except for my mom's Parker's and half of the Binkley's ready to upload, and wouldn't you know it... Rootsweb is down for routine maintenance today.

I'm worn out so I'm going to call it a night.

6-20-02

I must say, given a choice between a bronchoscopy or a colonoscopy... I'd take the tube up the ass.

You would think that a little fiber-optic scope up the nose, through the vocal chords and into the lung would be no big deal as long as they numb you up and give you a little morphine mixed with some other happy juice, right? Uh, yeah. Try coughing with that sucker in your lung. At least with a colonoscopy you get to watch, with a bronchoscopy they blindfold you. It's been almost 12 hours and I can still feel what it felt like when I coughed, and am still bringing up a little blood now and then. Yeah, all in all, the colonoscopy, or even the flexible-sigmoidoscopy with no anesthetic at all, was a lot less traumatic.

But maybe that's just me.

On the bright side, he didn't find anything!!!

6-17-02

He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum...

Except it's not his thumb, it's a needle. And it's not a plum, it's meat. Thanks to the bronchiectasis they can't put me to sleep, so I'm having a needle biopsy done next Monday. He's not expecting anything out of the ordinary, which is good, but I was really looking forward to having that painful little mutha out of there. I will do my best to try and talk him into concious sedation and removal though. I'm scheduled for a brochocsopy this Thursday and hopefully I won't be too aware of what they are doing while that is going on. I've had the little scope run through my nose to my voicebox a couple of times before, and although it's no big ordeal, I thought I would loose it, so I know there is no way I can handle having them poke around in my lungs unless I'm as out of it as they can safely get me.

So enough of that.

Our nephew, Wayne, took David to the Indy Car races at the Texas Motor Speedway the weekend before last. It was his first Indy car race and he really had a good time. They got to go in the pits, which is one of David's favorite parts. LOL

My best friend since childhood, Rose, had surgery last week. They removed a 14 lb. tumor from her liver. Yes, I said pounds!

It looks like our house may be going on the market soon. The timing is bad but a change may be good since this house does have mold problems.

My best friend here in Texas, Donna, has here son back in the state, along with her daughter-in-law and graddaughter. Her son has been with the Army Rangers 101st Airborne stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY but has been able transfer to Texas for the remainder of his time in the service. That's not to say he won't be sent off anywhere, but his wife and daughter will get to spend time with her family, and with his family as well. It will be nice for the baby to be able to get to know all of her grandparents, and Donna's family adore their daughter-in-law.

That's about it for now, it hasn't been very eventful around here. *knock on wood*

6-4-02

I didn't realize I had neglected this page for a full month. I've been concentrating with so hard on getting these genealogy pages up and online. I had them just about 3/4 of the done then completely deleted them and started over from scratch. The problem is that I am using a combination of a pages generated by a program called Ancestry Family Tree Maker and programming myself. The family tree maker will generate pages, but I have only figured out how to make it do... how to explain it... I can take the earliest date on a family line and generate a page with all of the descendants from that line, but not their spouses family. So then I have to do the same for the spouses family. I haven't figured a way to make the program just generate everyone that is in it into one giant page, so I am trying to connect them all together into one site. Plus I am giving it all a look that I like. I am also adding photos here and there and plan to add links to other sites that have connections to our families, and to our heritages. Then when it is all finished, well... what I'm currently working on that is, I will upload it to my space at Rootsweb, send it out to family members for their approval or disapproval, have it indexed by Rootsweb's search engines, etc. Then all I have to do is figure out how to make additions without going crazy. I want to have the entire site run so smoothly that only another HTML writer will realize the work that is involved :) It's like a craft project, I can see it in my head, it's just getting it down the way I want it that's the problem.

On the home front, Josh turned 20 on the 29th.
Happy Birthday Joshy!

My cough has been getting worse again, big surprise there. And I have an appointment with a surgeon on the 13th to see about a biopsy on this breast lump.

S.S.D.D.