Saturday Greetings
Good Morning Family,
Quick check in before I finish getting ready for our bake sale. I am thrilled coz I have at least five other people baking for it.
Must scoot.
Praying for all, especially Vickie and Butch. Love you all.
Trish
Albert Schweitzer
Hi Carla,
I hope you have good weather for traveling. Excited about meeting you on Tuesday.
Hugs
Albert Schweitzer
Hello Carla....it sounds like another busy time for you this week. I envy you and how you can travel whenever you want.
I am jealous that you will be meeting up with Trish. That will be a fun time!!
I am glad your hubby is going with you this trip. I didn't know he hasn't seen Vinnie in so long. He has been missing out on all those fun times with Miss Vinnie...our special OFF DIVA!!
Have a safe trip. We will be watching for pictures!!
Love and hugs to you...connie d
Oh Vickie,
I can not imagine what you are going through. All I can say is I love you, we here on OFF love you. God knows what is going on, and I trust He is there with you, Butch, and the girls, and kids. We all have you in our thoughts and prayers.
Hugs,
Trish
Albert Schweitzer
Hello Vickie...I hope that things will settle down soon. I know you want some peace and quiet and I can't blame you.
The oxygen will help Butch so much. I am glad he has it and I know you feel the same way too. You are just burnt out and in need of some peace and quiet. 
Take your time and rest all you can right now. Be a little selfish...as you say...get out and play with your beautiful flowers when you can. I know that is so soothing and comforting for you.
I am right here...always for you! 
GOD BLESS you, Butch, and your family.
I love you so much...I remain praying...and sending love and hugs...connie d
I'm back. I just frosted some cupcakes, and put boxes in my car, in case people want several. Plus, some larger boxes coz I'm heading over to the church to make some popcorn to offer as well. Please pray people are generous. Folks from church are bringing goodies today, so we will have a variety. I'm anxious, but grateful. My church family here is like all of you, loving, kind, and generous. I am truly blessed.
Albert Schweitzer
We had a long night. After driving down the mountain to pick up my granddaughter, my grandson decided he wanted to come back with us too because the rain was probably going to cancel his fishing trip. It was just misting rain when we picked them up so we stopped at a restaurant for the kids to eat. Leaving the fort (the town we were eating in) we started across the river and there was a cloud burst and for the next forty miles the rain came down in sheets. About halfway home, DH said, I don't feel well and I felt his head and he was cold and clammy and I said, as soon as we get to town, I'll take you to the hospital and he said no and I tried to argue with him and should have just took him to the hospital but I drove home instead. I get the kids and their things in and my left over food and he is still not out of the car and I tell him let's go to the hospital and he says no so get him in the house and his blood sugar was 281...I gave him insulin and waited a few minutes and slowly over the next two hours it began to drop. I was so mad at him. When I was looking for his glucometer, guess what I found hidden next to his chair--a half eaten bag of almond joys with a ton of empty packages tucked neatly under the table....no wonder he has not been feeling well. This morning, after his blood sugar stabilized, I said to him: I know people who are struggling to live to name a couple my sister-in-law and my the husband of one of my sister who is on the over 50s board. You can live a long and happy life but you are hell bent on throwing that long and happy life away. You want to kill yourself, then do it but make sure you let me know that you are eating this **** so I don't get scared and think you are having a heart attack....don't keep me in the dark...hell, I can go take out more insurance on you and know that my investment will give me a rapid return at the rate you are going....the grandkids said, Nana don't fuss...he just likes a little candy and I said well babies Nana likes peanut butter too but should I eat peanut butter and they said never Nana please don't eat peanut butter and I said why and they said it will kill you and I said well and they got it and said Granddad don't eat candy....that has been my week...listening to him tell me how bad he feels and me worrying myself sick and he being sick because he cannot stay out of the candy.
Sigh.
Sisters I don't know how this weekend will end; it started out with a bang, but I'm hoping that the rain stops, my husband gets his eating under control, and my grandkids give me some peace and quiet.
Vic, my heart breaks for you, and I know how hard this must be. After they get all the things set up in your house and you get a routine of who is coming and when, you will begin to feel a little more in control so handling this might be a tiny bit easier. The oxygen will help him feel more alert and once the hospice people get his pain a little better controlled, you will get the quality of time that you and Butch and the kids need. Doctors and nurses in hospitals and clinics see so many people who are fighting and they forget that at some point fighting is harder than the life it promises is worth living...they champion us and the patients but everything is machines and vials and needles filled with blood and cold rooms and uniformed people and strangers in hallways with tears and sadness so at some point, and Butch seems to be at that point, home looks damn good and comfort beats out the other. I'm thinking of you often and my wish for you and Butch is that this choice you guys make is easy and the outcome is peaceful and that over the next few weeks or months, Butch gets to sit in his easy chair watching the grandkids play and that he gets to eat your good cooking and watch you nest in your new house and you get to keep your husband for how ever long the man he was and not the man cancer and its treatment turned him into. Peace, my friend.
