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Christmas-Transplant Day

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I know, I should update more often, sorry. Frankly I have been so overwhelmed with everything that when I think about it too much I just start crying. Christmas week was one spent in the hospital. Amber had her bone marrow transplant on Christmas eve. Jordan, her fiance had a "cold sore" and was not there all week.... I think he just needed the time off. It did not go unnoticed by her that he was not there the day of her transplant. Jesse worked that day too. It was Amber and I alone in the hospital on a BIG day. They call transplant day your 2nd birthday. Let me explain for a second the transplant. It is not a surgery. It is an infusion that hangs and goes right into her hickman. Her hickman placement was a surgery, yes. The transplant is quite non-invasive. It looked like thick, red blood. She did pretty well. About an hour into the infusion a couple of her nurses came in to ask Sheryl if she needed any help. Then they said, "okay, we really just came to see Amb...

Fear and loathing in the outhouse.

Today I told a girl a story from my past. Before my update I'm going to hopefully give you something to laugh at. As a child I was so deathly afraid of outhouses that I refused to even enter into one. Really, I don't know anyone that likes an out house other then the people at the "Honey bucket" factory. My fear was extreme. I recall going to "Bam berries hot springs" and having my Mother catch me squatting behind a bush next to the outhouse. Fast forward a few years. I was nineteen years old. My sister a friend and I decide to go to the rose festival. (back when it was free and not gated) We went in the afternoon and watched live music while sitting in the grass. We also had the brilliant idea to buy a bottle of rum... Each of us purchased a fountain soda, drank them half way then topped them off with rum. It took about an hour then there was no more holding it. I had to pee. Badly. There was a line of honey buckets for all the festival goers. Well I w...