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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Clams
A friend of mine on Facebook and someone I know personally mentioned that her son had her buy clams at the store. That reminded me of something funny that happened when I first got out of the Air Force. My brother Rich and I went to a bar/restaurant in Saratoga Springs for lunch. The name of the place was Madame Jumel's. It is named after a famous Victorian lady who was quite famous in her day in Saratoga. He ordered clams for us. I had never had clams before. Back then my brother was quite the drinker and he and I had a couple drinks waiting for our clams. I was getting quite tipsy by the time they came and we started eating them. My brother is somewhat of a cut up and was taking the clam shells and making them talk using funny voices. I was laughing so hard I was almost wetting my pants and everyone was staring at us. I didn't care! Always had a good time with my brother. I still do and he has been sober several years now! One time he had me in a shopping cart and was pushing me down the street in it. We actually got pulled over by a police car! I bet that was the first time they pulled over someone riding in a shopping cart! They told us to stop because it was dangerous. I got out and we waited until they left and he got me back in and took off with me down Caroline St. Caroline St has a very steep hill and goes right past a lot of bars etc.. I was laughing and screaming my head off and then we saw the cop car again. We abandoned the shopping cart and took off into a bar. I sure love my brother, he has made my life very interesting! Here is a picture of him at my wedding! In the first picture he is standing with Tom Maily who used to be a reporter on a local TV station and is now the public relations manager of Stewart's in the area. My brother is wearing the prank underwear I had under my dress for the garter ceremony!
Mood swings-Massive earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
There has been a massive earthquake and Tsunami that hit in Japan. Hundreds of people dead, mass destruction. Very upsetting to me. Is this all part of what is in the bible about the end times? Is Jesus coming back soon?
I have been experiencing frequent mood swings lately. I don't know if it is because of the cancer and being sick or because my medication isn't working or what.. I guess it is normal to be feeling this way but I feel tearful or hyper or just regular all in one day. This is not bi-polar. I have not heard of bi-polar having mood swings so rapidly. Of course I really don't know if that is what I have. The snow and lousy weather has been lingering and I have not been out much so I guess that can cause me to feel moody too. I went out to breakfast with my father the other day and him and Nancy got me a nice comforter for the bed.
Sarah has been spending a lot of time at her Grandmother's house. She has been acting up in school, trying to skip class. I think she learned her lesson because she got caught the first time!
My incision is still opened up quite a bit. It seems to be healing but it happens so slowly it is hard for me to say one way or another. I am off the antibiotics I just hope I don't get an infection. I am keeping an eye out for redness and pain etc.. I have some antibiotics here just in case but they really give me terrible heartburn.
Looking forward to church on Sunday and the St. Patricks day dinner after. I am going to bring a dessert. I haven't decided what to make yet. Maybe cupcakes. I don't want all the desserts to end up being cake like. Cupcakes would be a big hit with the kids however! I really don't have much news.
I have been experiencing frequent mood swings lately. I don't know if it is because of the cancer and being sick or because my medication isn't working or what.. I guess it is normal to be feeling this way but I feel tearful or hyper or just regular all in one day. This is not bi-polar. I have not heard of bi-polar having mood swings so rapidly. Of course I really don't know if that is what I have. The snow and lousy weather has been lingering and I have not been out much so I guess that can cause me to feel moody too. I went out to breakfast with my father the other day and him and Nancy got me a nice comforter for the bed.
Sarah has been spending a lot of time at her Grandmother's house. She has been acting up in school, trying to skip class. I think she learned her lesson because she got caught the first time!
My incision is still opened up quite a bit. It seems to be healing but it happens so slowly it is hard for me to say one way or another. I am off the antibiotics I just hope I don't get an infection. I am keeping an eye out for redness and pain etc.. I have some antibiotics here just in case but they really give me terrible heartburn.
Looking forward to church on Sunday and the St. Patricks day dinner after. I am going to bring a dessert. I haven't decided what to make yet. Maybe cupcakes. I don't want all the desserts to end up being cake like. Cupcakes would be a big hit with the kids however! I really don't have much news.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Surgery is done
I have had my surgery on Friday as scheduled. I know that was 5 days ago, but I really haven't felt up to blogging until now. My family has been blessed with great dinners from folks at church and a couple boxes of food stuffs too!
My surgery site seems to be healing up ok. I have two drainage tubes in and hopefully they will come out next week. I am tired a lot but cannot sleep during the day no matter what I do to try. I sleep good at night but the dog wakes me up two or three times and I am forced to get up. Rich sleeps right through it. Speaking of the dog, the lazy sluggard just got up from his early morning nap. He takes that after breakfast I guess. Lazy dog. He should be doing something useful like fetching slippers or something..
I am waiting to hear more from my Doctors office or to get a call from the oncologists office with an initial set up appt. I am not looking forward to this next part of the treatment at all. I will have to get a port put in for the chemo too, so more surgery is coming up. A port is a small metal device with catheters. The catheters go into your major artery and the port is accessed with needles to administer the chemo and to draw blood etc.. It is usually placed in the chest area. I will be sedated for the procedure which is good, I don't want to have to be awake!
I am tired so I am going to attempt to sleep. Probably won't happen, but I can try! My husband has an annoying habit of slamming doors and coming into the bedroom clomping in his boots and then coming over and touching me. So even if I am starting to fall asleep I am woken up.
My surgery site seems to be healing up ok. I have two drainage tubes in and hopefully they will come out next week. I am tired a lot but cannot sleep during the day no matter what I do to try. I sleep good at night but the dog wakes me up two or three times and I am forced to get up. Rich sleeps right through it. Speaking of the dog, the lazy sluggard just got up from his early morning nap. He takes that after breakfast I guess. Lazy dog. He should be doing something useful like fetching slippers or something..
I am waiting to hear more from my Doctors office or to get a call from the oncologists office with an initial set up appt. I am not looking forward to this next part of the treatment at all. I will have to get a port put in for the chemo too, so more surgery is coming up. A port is a small metal device with catheters. The catheters go into your major artery and the port is accessed with needles to administer the chemo and to draw blood etc.. It is usually placed in the chest area. I will be sedated for the procedure which is good, I don't want to have to be awake!
I am tired so I am going to attempt to sleep. Probably won't happen, but I can try! My husband has an annoying habit of slamming doors and coming into the bedroom clomping in his boots and then coming over and touching me. So even if I am starting to fall asleep I am woken up.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Excerpt from Clarksfield pioneers book
Asa Wheeler, Sr., lived in Connecticut at the time of the war of the Revolution. He was drafted into the army and was put to 
work as teamster and helped to draw pork to Danbury after the town had been burned by the British, a depot of supplies having been established there by the military authorities. He was only eighteen years old and did not relish army life, so he managed to slip away one morning at sun rise. He was a noted runner and it is related that he reached his home, seventy miles away, at sunset. The officers were never able to catch him again. He came to Trumbull county, Ohio, where his wife died. His son Asa was married to Olive Minor, a sister of Daniel Minor, at Vienna, Trumbull county. In 1818 they came to Clarksfield with one child, Lovina, and the old gentlemen came with them. They settled on a piece of land up the river from the home of Benjamin Stiles, near the bank of the river. He raised his house July 13, 1818. Mr. Wheeler set out an orchard there, which was one of the first orchards in the town, if not the very first. In a few years he and his brother-in-law, Joseph Bartholamew, bought out Levi Barnum, who had built the mill, afterwards known as the "Hayes" mill, on the east branch. The business did not pay well enough for them to meet their obligations and they were glad to sell out to Johnson Wheeler (not a relative.) Mr. Wheeler then lived in different places; indeed, some say that he lived in more different houses than any other man in town. He worked for Captain Husted for some time running the grist mill and lived in a log house near the residence of William Stiles. In 1840 he lived in Wakeman and run the mill there. At the time of his death he lived at the Hollow in the house now owned by Dr. C. H. Foss. His children were Sally Lovina, who married Wheeler Percy and who died in 1897; Bethia, the first white girl born in Clarksfield, whose birthday was Nov. 15, 1818. She died in 1836. Anson W., who married, first, Martha Easterly and second, Amanda (Johnson) Wilson, and who lives in Pennsylvania at present. Lucretia, who married Oliver Dunning and lives in Missouri. Mary Ann, who died in 1869. William W., who married Martha Prosser and who lives in California. Lucy, who married Cyrus Dunning and who lives in Nebraska. Lemuel, who is unmarried and lives in Nebraska. In 1836, Mrs. Wheeler died. He then married Sophia Hill, a sister of Ben Hill. She had a daughter, Betsy Wheeler, who is unmarried and lives with her brother Lemuel. Asa Wheeler died in 1875, eleven days after his wife, at the age of 81. Olive Wheeler’s mother came to live with her and the two old people, Asa Wheeler, Sr., and Mrs. Minor, concluded to get married. They afterward went to Daniel Minor’s to live. Asa Wheeler was living at "Hayesville" before 1826 and his wife is said to have taught the first school in that part of the township, the school being held in their house.
work as teamster and helped to draw pork to Danbury after the town had been burned by the British, a depot of supplies having been established there by the military authorities. He was only eighteen years old and did not relish army life, so he managed to slip away one morning at sun rise. He was a noted runner and it is related that he reached his home, seventy miles away, at sunset. The officers were never able to catch him again. He came to Trumbull county, Ohio, where his wife died. His son Asa was married to Olive Minor, a sister of Daniel Minor, at Vienna, Trumbull county. In 1818 they came to Clarksfield with one child, Lovina, and the old gentlemen came with them. They settled on a piece of land up the river from the home of Benjamin Stiles, near the bank of the river. He raised his house July 13, 1818. Mr. Wheeler set out an orchard there, which was one of the first orchards in the town, if not the very first. In a few years he and his brother-in-law, Joseph Bartholamew, bought out Levi Barnum, who had built the mill, afterwards known as the "Hayes" mill, on the east branch. The business did not pay well enough for them to meet their obligations and they were glad to sell out to Johnson Wheeler (not a relative.) Mr. Wheeler then lived in different places; indeed, some say that he lived in more different houses than any other man in town. He worked for Captain Husted for some time running the grist mill and lived in a log house near the residence of William Stiles. In 1840 he lived in Wakeman and run the mill there. At the time of his death he lived at the Hollow in the house now owned by Dr. C. H. Foss. His children were Sally Lovina, who married Wheeler Percy and who died in 1897; Bethia, the first white girl born in Clarksfield, whose birthday was Nov. 15, 1818. She died in 1836. Anson W., who married, first, Martha Easterly and second, Amanda (Johnson) Wilson, and who lives in Pennsylvania at present. Lucretia, who married Oliver Dunning and lives in Missouri. Mary Ann, who died in 1869. William W., who married Martha Prosser and who lives in California. Lucy, who married Cyrus Dunning and who lives in Nebraska. Lemuel, who is unmarried and lives in Nebraska. In 1836, Mrs. Wheeler died. He then married Sophia Hill, a sister of Ben Hill. She had a daughter, Betsy Wheeler, who is unmarried and lives with her brother Lemuel. Asa Wheeler died in 1875, eleven days after his wife, at the age of 81. Olive Wheeler’s mother came to live with her and the two old people, Asa Wheeler, Sr., and Mrs. Minor, concluded to get married. They afterward went to Daniel Minor’s to live. Asa Wheeler was living at "Hayesville" before 1826 and his wife is said to have taught the first school in that part of the township, the school being held in their house.
Lazy day
Yesterday, I indulged in being very lazy. I was tired all day, got up at 6:00 to get the kids ready for school and went back to bed until around 9:00. Got up for a couple hours and went back to bed from around 11:30 until 2:00. I read that having actual cancer can make people tired. I wish I would be loosing weight, but then again if I was I would be terminal, so we will skip that wish! I need to lay off the cookies!
I went over to my Aunt Janice's last night for a sub and chips and she cut and colored my hair.
She wanted to experiment and added a cap of neutral blonde into it and the results were a shade lighter! I had gotten a coupon for a free box of foaming haircolor in the mail and gave it to her because I won't be needed it in a couple months! So this color will see me thru to chemo! At least I will look my age and not like I'm older. I am starting to get scared. Hard to believe that this is happening to me! No one expects breast cancer when there is NO family history. I am the family pioneer I guess.
Speaking of pioneers, my Aunt Janice and I looked through her old family pictures. I don't have any to show here but on the Wheeler side of the family, my Grandpa owned a dairy farm near Schaghticoke, NY. After that was sold he bought a bar I think and then built a general store and had cabins out back to let to tourists. The general store is still there but I believe it is a house. Grandpa Wheeler originally came from Ohio. His family can be traced back to the Revolutionary War where Asa Wheeler Sr. served under Gen. George Washington. He was one of the founders of a town called Clarksfield in Ohio. He owned a mill there.
The old gentleman on the far left is Asa Wheeler Jr., I believe. The man with the dark hair and mustache is his son, I believed named Anson.
I don't belong to Ancestry.com anymore so I'm not sure of all the names.
Anyhow, today I am going to pre-op to get my blood draw, EKG and maybe a chest X-ray to check for spread of the cancer to other areas. Tomorrow I have to go in the morning to family court because Travis' father was called in by Medicaid. I wish I didn't have to go.
I have made arrangements for Sarah to spend the weekend at her Grandmothers. I am starting to feel stressed, Rich keeps coming in the bedroom and standing behind me and it is bothering me. I better take a Zanax now before I get too paranoid.
I went over to my Aunt Janice's last night for a sub and chips and she cut and colored my hair.
Speaking of pioneers, my Aunt Janice and I looked through her old family pictures. I don't have any to show here but on the Wheeler side of the family, my Grandpa owned a dairy farm near Schaghticoke, NY. After that was sold he bought a bar I think and then built a general store and had cabins out back to let to tourists. The general store is still there but I believe it is a house. Grandpa Wheeler originally came from Ohio. His family can be traced back to the Revolutionary War where Asa Wheeler Sr. served under Gen. George Washington. He was one of the founders of a town called Clarksfield in Ohio. He owned a mill there.
The old gentleman on the far left is Asa Wheeler Jr., I believe. The man with the dark hair and mustache is his son, I believed named Anson.
Anyhow, today I am going to pre-op to get my blood draw, EKG and maybe a chest X-ray to check for spread of the cancer to other areas. Tomorrow I have to go in the morning to family court because Travis' father was called in by Medicaid. I wish I didn't have to go.
I have made arrangements for Sarah to spend the weekend at her Grandmothers. I am starting to feel stressed, Rich keeps coming in the bedroom and standing behind me and it is bothering me. I better take a Zanax now before I get too paranoid.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Surgery on Friday
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