Just found out from Jenny that Jacob is going to get to come home today before noon!! I guess he is maintaining his oxygen levels on his own. Ethan and Rachel and I are about to head up to the hospital.
Thanks again for all of your prayers!
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hjh
Nov 6, 2005
Nov 5, 2005
Jacob Pictures
 | Jacob after his bath |
 | Jacob playing with some new toys |
| Jacob with his breathing treatment |
Re: Jacob update
Jacob is doing a little better. After he took a bath this morning we went back to the room right away because they were worried about his oxygen level and when we hooked him back up his levels were even better than they had been before. So they lowered the level he was getting from 1 liter down to 1/2 liter. When his level continued to remain the same they went ahead and took him off of it. Then he was able to get down and ride a tricycle for a while and he had lots of fun, but then when I checked his oxygen level it had dropped a little bit and then it kept getting worse until the nurse came back in and put him back on the oxygen at 1/2 liter and he is doing well with that. They are going to try to ween him off a little bit slower this time. The doctor thinks he will be able to come home tomorrow. I hope he is right but we will see.
Here are some pictures of him. Guess which one is right after his bath :-) Another one is of him getting his breathing treatment. He is really good about it and just sits there and opens up his mouth and closes his eyes until they are done.
His uncle Jeff came by to see/play with him this morning and my Mom and Rachel should be here around 5:00
Thanks for all of your love, support and prayers.
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hjh
Here are some pictures of him. Guess which one is right after his bath :-) Another one is of him getting his breathing treatment. He is really good about it and just sits there and opens up his mouth and closes his eyes until they are done.
His uncle Jeff came by to see/play with him this morning and my Mom and Rachel should be here around 5:00
Thanks for all of your love, support and prayers.
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hjh
Nov 4, 2005
Jacob update
I just talked to Jenny on the phone and even after numerous breathing treatments lots of other medicine and they have a little oxygen mask blowing right on him they still haven't been able to get his Oxygen levels up. They think he is going to have to stay for 2 days!! He is at St. Francis Hostpital, which is a childrens hospital.
She also said how they tortured the poor boy last night by inserting an IV which took at least 3 tries and both hands and then they weren't able to draw blood in is arm so they had to prick his finger and squeze it out like that :-( I am pretty sure he is going to hate hospitals and doctors now.
I am going up to the hospital in a few minutes. We will try to let you all know of any developments.
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hjh
She also said how they tortured the poor boy last night by inserting an IV which took at least 3 tries and both hands and then they weren't able to draw blood in is arm so they had to prick his finger and squeze it out like that :-( I am pretty sure he is going to hate hospitals and doctors now.
I am going up to the hospital in a few minutes. We will try to let you all know of any developments.
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hjh
Back to the emergency room.
Last night after we put the boys to bed we had just finished watching The Apprentice and were in the middle of Smallville, Jacob got up crying. He couldn't breath very well, was coughing uncontrollably and complaining of chest pain so we took him to the emergency room at around 11:30. Turns out is was some kind of bronchial asthma attack. He is fine but they haven't been able to get his oxygen level up to a good enough level to release him so finally they decided to keep him over night for observation. So I have came home with Ethan at about 3:30 am, he was falling apart as you can imagine after spending 4 hours in the emergency room.
He has had this problem twice before but never this serious.
Please pray that they will be able to get his oxygen levels up. After 3 breathing treatments and some steroids he was floating between 88% & 94%, which I don't think is really bad, but it just isn't good enough to release him. If it had stayed at 94 they would have let him go, but it kept going up and down.
Also pray that we will all some how be able to catch up this lost sleep. Ethan woke me up at 9:30 this morning after going to bed around 4:00.
2 emergency room visits in 2 months :-S (Last month Ethan stuck his finger in the paper shredder. So keep that in mind little fingers and paper shredders are not a good mix.)
He has had this problem twice before but never this serious.
Please pray that they will be able to get his oxygen levels up. After 3 breathing treatments and some steroids he was floating between 88% & 94%, which I don't think is really bad, but it just isn't good enough to release him. If it had stayed at 94 they would have let him go, but it kept going up and down.
Also pray that we will all some how be able to catch up this lost sleep. Ethan woke me up at 9:30 this morning after going to bed around 4:00.
2 emergency room visits in 2 months :-S (Last month Ethan stuck his finger in the paper shredder. So keep that in mind little fingers and paper shredders are not a good mix.)
The Apprentice
Markus cracks me up. LOL.
Every time he starts to say anything I am literally rolling around on the floor. I have never seen someone string together so many words and not communicate any comprehensible idea. (**Spoiler**) Even though I have thought from day one that Markus should be fired I must say that he has grown on me the way that the annoying kid at school... (now it is the next day since I wrote everything before this. I was interrupted with a trip to the emergency room. More on that later.) So Marcus had grown on me like how the annoying kid at school might grow on you b/c you feel sorry for him since everyone else hates him. So I was kind of sad to see him go, he made the show interesting.
(**Still Spoiler**) It seemed to me that Clay was more detrimental to that specific task, but he had also done well on the task before where he was a good salesmen for the golf items. So I can see that it was probably better for the team as a whole for Markus to go but the show will be a little less interesting with out him :-( and even though he was a worthless player he will be missed by me.
Every time he starts to say anything I am literally rolling around on the floor. I have never seen someone string together so many words and not communicate any comprehensible idea. (**Spoiler**) Even though I have thought from day one that Markus should be fired I must say that he has grown on me the way that the annoying kid at school... (now it is the next day since I wrote everything before this. I was interrupted with a trip to the emergency room. More on that later.) So Marcus had grown on me like how the annoying kid at school might grow on you b/c you feel sorry for him since everyone else hates him. So I was kind of sad to see him go, he made the show interesting.
(**Still Spoiler**) It seemed to me that Clay was more detrimental to that specific task, but he had also done well on the task before where he was a good salesmen for the golf items. So I can see that it was probably better for the team as a whole for Markus to go but the show will be a little less interesting with out him :-( and even though he was a worthless player he will be missed by me.
Oct 28, 2005
Our shameful politicized court system
Here it happened again. Nobody is getting charged for committing the original crime that they were investigating. Libby is only getting charged for lying during the investigation of a non-crime!!!
Top Cheney aide Libby indicted, quits post
Imagine somebody accusing you of stealing something that you didn't steal and in the process of the investigation they manage to trip you up with what you had said and you get indicted for that, even though you hadn't committed a crime in the first place. Think of how you could use this against your political enemies just by making an accusation. Get anyone in front of a 23 person grand jury for a couple of hours with no lawyer and no notes and see how easy it is to confuse them and trick them into misspeaking or appearing to lie!! Shameful.
All of this is just being used to hurt and weaken the Bush administration while ignoring the true scandal; that Joseph Wilson is an outright liar and used his wife to worm himself into a position to de-legitimize the Iraq war and the mainstream media has almost completely ignored it. Vallerie Plame was not a covert agent. Everyone that knew her knew that she worked for the CIA. You can't out someone who is already out, and she hadn't been "in" for more than 6 years. No crime was committed.
Top Cheney aide Libby indicted, quits post
"WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted Friday on five charges that include obstruction of justice, making false statements and perjury in the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA agent's name."
Imagine somebody accusing you of stealing something that you didn't steal and in the process of the investigation they manage to trip you up with what you had said and you get indicted for that, even though you hadn't committed a crime in the first place. Think of how you could use this against your political enemies just by making an accusation. Get anyone in front of a 23 person grand jury for a couple of hours with no lawyer and no notes and see how easy it is to confuse them and trick them into misspeaking or appearing to lie!! Shameful.All of this is just being used to hurt and weaken the Bush administration while ignoring the true scandal; that Joseph Wilson is an outright liar and used his wife to worm himself into a position to de-legitimize the Iraq war and the mainstream media has almost completely ignored it. Vallerie Plame was not a covert agent. Everyone that knew her knew that she worked for the CIA. You can't out someone who is already out, and she hadn't been "in" for more than 6 years. No crime was committed.
Oct 26, 2005
Dr. Chuck Norris
So I went to my new optometrist the other day. I was very surprised to find that the Dr. was actually Chuck Norris working under an alias (I won't use his name here to protect Chucks new secret identity).
It was a most unpleasant experience. Especially for an eye appointment. Usually they are pretty cut and dry, in and out and here is your new contact prescription, right? Wrong, not this time.
Now I have to give him a break, that is quite a change to go from a Texas Ranger to an eye doctor, but surely he did some training for it, I don't know. First he tried to tell me that my eyes weren't lining up exactly but my brain was compensating for it so I didn't have double vision. But his equipment kept drifting while he was doing that test were you have to tell him when the 2 things line up. Not to mention that he did it really fast.
So I already do not have very much faith in Dr. Chuck, but then he tries to tell me that my right eye has improved 3 clicks to a -2, but my contact was only a -2.25 to begin with, so I am pretty sure that when they measured my glasses to determine my prior prescription they measured it wrong. When I told him that my right eye was only a -2.25 to begin with, then he said "Oh, well that is only one a '1 click' improvement, but you should get yourself checked out for diabetes, just in case."
Then a lady takes me into another room and says that she is going to put some "eye numbing drops" in my eyes and it will make them fill "puffy", whatever the heck that means. If they were honest they would just say "Ok, I am going to put these eye drops in your eyes that are going to burn really bad and then make your eyes feel really freaky for about 30 minutes", freaky makes sense, "puffy" isn't a feeling.
But I accomplished my goal and I am wearing a new pair of contacts now that seem to be much more comfortable then the last brand that I had. The last brand that I had made me want to rip my eyeballs out of their socket for relief after about 4 hours.
Unfortunately Dr, Norris is the only optometrist on my health insurance plan, so I will go back to him. I am trying to work up the nerve to ask if he is still bringing criminal scum to justice down in Texas and if so how does he find the time to both fight crime and "practice" Optometry. That is one heck of a commute. Don't worry Dr. Norris, your secret is safe with me.
It was a most unpleasant experience. Especially for an eye appointment. Usually they are pretty cut and dry, in and out and here is your new contact prescription, right? Wrong, not this time.
Now I have to give him a break, that is quite a change to go from a Texas Ranger to an eye doctor, but surely he did some training for it, I don't know. First he tried to tell me that my eyes weren't lining up exactly but my brain was compensating for it so I didn't have double vision. But his equipment kept drifting while he was doing that test were you have to tell him when the 2 things line up. Not to mention that he did it really fast.
So I already do not have very much faith in Dr. Chuck, but then he tries to tell me that my right eye has improved 3 clicks to a -2, but my contact was only a -2.25 to begin with, so I am pretty sure that when they measured my glasses to determine my prior prescription they measured it wrong. When I told him that my right eye was only a -2.25 to begin with, then he said "Oh, well that is only one a '1 click' improvement, but you should get yourself checked out for diabetes, just in case."
Then a lady takes me into another room and says that she is going to put some "eye numbing drops" in my eyes and it will make them fill "puffy", whatever the heck that means. If they were honest they would just say "Ok, I am going to put these eye drops in your eyes that are going to burn really bad and then make your eyes feel really freaky for about 30 minutes", freaky makes sense, "puffy" isn't a feeling.
But I accomplished my goal and I am wearing a new pair of contacts now that seem to be much more comfortable then the last brand that I had. The last brand that I had made me want to rip my eyeballs out of their socket for relief after about 4 hours.
Unfortunately Dr, Norris is the only optometrist on my health insurance plan, so I will go back to him. I am trying to work up the nerve to ask if he is still bringing criminal scum to justice down in Texas and if so how does he find the time to both fight crime and "practice" Optometry. That is one heck of a commute. Don't worry Dr. Norris, your secret is safe with me.
Oct 21, 2005
My Office Space
Reflections and Stories About My Office Space.
I have been at my new job for almost 3 months now. My biggest complaint is my chair. Not only is at least 5 years old, but it is extremely uncomfortable. My tailbone is sore every night and it won't raise up high enough for my legs.
They have finally finished construction of the new office space on the first floor, which I pray they will never send me too, but about half of my half of the floor moved down there a week ago. Then yesterday I noticed the tech guys bringing up a bunch of new computers to fill up those now empty cubicles with new people. My window of opportunity was about to pass. So I set off on a mission to find myself a decent chair. I searched far and wide for something to cushion my posterior end better than my current operation. I probably sat in over 20 different chairs and passed over more than that. It was very disappointing I could not find anything better! Pretty pathetic not one decent chair in the whole bunch. Maybe that is why all those people moved to the basement, their butts hurt. Maybe they have new chairs down there. Hmmmm.... maybe moving below wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
Note to self: find out if they have better chairs in the basement...
On another note I have discovered that the 3rd floor seems to be the good looking floor. I have been down there a few times and for some reason all of those people are better looking than the people on my floor, the 4th floor, man and woman alike.
Note to self: find out why I am not on the 3rd floor.
Finally, I hate it when you get on the same bathroom schedule as someone else. I have run into the same guy in the bathroom 3 times today (I drink lots of water).
I have been at my new job for almost 3 months now. My biggest complaint is my chair. Not only is at least 5 years old, but it is extremely uncomfortable. My tailbone is sore every night and it won't raise up high enough for my legs.
They have finally finished construction of the new office space on the first floor, which I pray they will never send me too, but about half of my half of the floor moved down there a week ago. Then yesterday I noticed the tech guys bringing up a bunch of new computers to fill up those now empty cubicles with new people. My window of opportunity was about to pass. So I set off on a mission to find myself a decent chair. I searched far and wide for something to cushion my posterior end better than my current operation. I probably sat in over 20 different chairs and passed over more than that. It was very disappointing I could not find anything better! Pretty pathetic not one decent chair in the whole bunch. Maybe that is why all those people moved to the basement, their butts hurt. Maybe they have new chairs down there. Hmmmm.... maybe moving below wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
Note to self: find out if they have better chairs in the basement...
On another note I have discovered that the 3rd floor seems to be the good looking floor. I have been down there a few times and for some reason all of those people are better looking than the people on my floor, the 4th floor, man and woman alike.
Note to self: find out why I am not on the 3rd floor.
Finally, I hate it when you get on the same bathroom schedule as someone else. I have run into the same guy in the bathroom 3 times today (I drink lots of water).
Oct 12, 2005
Bono's Mistress?
Did anybody listen to Rush yesterday? Bono has won "UberSexual" man of the year and Rush was talking about it.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-11-2005/0004165259&EDATE=
The Bad News:
When it was mentioned that Bono is madly in love with his wife Rush went off on how he has a mistress. A few minutes later Snerdly got an instant message from someone asking who was Rush's source about Bono's mistress. I thought how funny it was that I was not the only one listening to the show who was more concerned about Bono having a mistress than the actual point Rush was trying to make. Fans of Bono love him for more than just his amazing music. The fact that he is still married to his high school sweetheart is part of it. So Rush said he couldn't reveal his source and it wasn't information that you could just go look up.
The Good News:
After his next commercial break Rush said that he had just gotten a message from his source that said that maybe it was just speculation or rumor and that he shouldn't say it on the air! So Rush had to retract his statement and apologize. Their is no evidence that Bono has a mistress. Whew.
Here is the Transcript. The retraction is actually at the top even though it took place after the rest of it.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101105/content/cutting_edge.guest.html
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-11-2005/0004165259&EDATE=
The Bad News:
When it was mentioned that Bono is madly in love with his wife Rush went off on how he has a mistress. A few minutes later Snerdly got an instant message from someone asking who was Rush's source about Bono's mistress. I thought how funny it was that I was not the only one listening to the show who was more concerned about Bono having a mistress than the actual point Rush was trying to make. Fans of Bono love him for more than just his amazing music. The fact that he is still married to his high school sweetheart is part of it. So Rush said he couldn't reveal his source and it wasn't information that you could just go look up.
The Good News:
After his next commercial break Rush said that he had just gotten a message from his source that said that maybe it was just speculation or rumor and that he shouldn't say it on the air! So Rush had to retract his statement and apologize. Their is no evidence that Bono has a mistress. Whew.
Here is the Transcript. The retraction is actually at the top even though it took place after the rest of it.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101105/content/cutting_edge.guest.html
Oct 10, 2005
The same scare story as always.
Is it just me or has it been every year for at least the last 5 years that we have heard that this is going to be the year for the big Flu pandemic? Not really an interesting story or anything. I wouldn't bother reading it if I were you, but it is here for reference.
U.S Health Secretary Warns of Flu Pandemic
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/10/D8D5G42O1.html
U.S Health Secretary Warns of Flu Pandemic
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/10/D8D5G42O1.html
The Best Smile in the World!
Here are Jacob and Ethan outside the Zoo on Saturday. Isn't that the best smile in the world?
Here is a message from Jacob: jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjngkkklpooooovcxzaqw
He said each letter very slowly as he typed it, "J, and then N, then G, then K...." I am amazed at how he is barely 3 and already knows most of his numbers and letters.
asdtteqzxpujlg - more from Jacob :-D
Here is a message from Jacob: jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjngkkklpooooovcxzaqw
He said each letter very slowly as he typed it, "J, and then N, then G, then K...." I am amazed at how he is barely 3 and already knows most of his numbers and letters.
asdtteqzxpujlg - more from Jacob :-D
Oct 5, 2005
Can I Change My Answer?
In my interview for my current job a few months ago my now boss asked me
first what my favorite customer is like and then he asked me what my least
favorite customer is like. I don't remember exactly what my answer for
least favorite was, maybe something about a really picky customer or
someone who changes their mind a lot.
Today I have a better answer. People who are very specific about what
they want. They don't know what it is that they want, but they do know
what they don't want!
I think that might be my final answer. I just spent an hour on the phone
with a lady who was actually very nice but fits the above description
perfectly, and really I would rather have somebody yell at me for 5
minutes and then hang up. BTW I am involved in graphics and webpage
design, which has a humorous story about it but I don't know if I want to
share that secret with the world just yet ;-)
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