Teddy's Talk

Oh Wow it has been a while...

Well I haven't updated in quite a while alot of things have been going on the last few months... Now where do I begin.

Mom finally had the last surgery this August. I'm so glad that we can finally put this chapter of our lives to rest. Who knew that one operation for a gallbladder could lead to so many surgeries. 8 in total since Feb. of this year. 2003 is sure going to go down as one that I won't soon forget. Watching your mom almost die from one doctors stupid mistake makes me so mad at times.

If someone would have said to me that this was going to happen I would have told them that they were crazy. I have had my day's where I still can't belive it all. But mom is here with us and that's all that matters in the end. I had times where I didn't think that she would be. I really don't know what I would do with out her. She is the glue that holds us all together. Last weekend was Thanksgiving and we all went down for dinner, there were times that I didn't think that things would be like that again. I have been keeping this inside for so long because I couldn't unload anything on my family it was just too hard & I've come to relize that keeping it in wasn't doing me any good at all.

On September 29th we were hit by hurricane Juan. That night was just so scarey. The wind and everything falling down, watching the power transformers blow up in the night sky and seeing the glow of the oil stack burning all night. We were with out power here for 2 days. Everything in the fridge was starting to spoil on us. Thank goodness I hadn't gone grocery shopping or I would have lost everything. We listened to the updates on a walkman that we had in the apartment. I took the headphones and aranged them on my hurricane lamp so the sound would echo out and we could hear it. I had no way at all to cook anything hot, so we ate sandwiches for the first evening. That is until I found 2 boxes of tea lights. I took those as wells as the basket from the deep fryer and my tea pot and rigged it up so Mike and I could have hot soup. We were even able to make coffee with it.

The weather that followed the next few days was so strange. It was so hot out. We were able to have hot showers for those 2 days. We live in a building with only 11 units in it, I think that a few of the neighbors must have gone to where they were able to get hot food or something. The mess that the hurricane left was so sad. All of the old growth trees are gone, we were in a state of emergency for a week. Told to stay inside and not go to work if you were not needed.

My parents live right at the coast where the hurricane hit. My mom sister and her kids went to my other sisters for the night... but my dad and bil stayed at the trailer. That is until it started to rock so hard that my dad thought that it was going to roll. They spent the night in the car at the bottom of the hill because so many trees were down and there was so much flooding that they couldn't make it out. The ocean came over the sea wall, about 500 to 1000 feet. You can see the debree it left, all of the trees are now leaning inland to the right. My mom had it right when she said it looks like the hand of god came down and smacked us. The good news is that the trailer is still standing, only a bit of damage. Some of the siding was ripped of one of the back walls, and the roof needs to be fixed up a bit. The power meter was nearly ripped off the side of the trailer but we were able to fix that. Over the next bit we will be helping out to reblock the underside of it.

This past week has been a bit rough. My mother's cousin passed away suddenly from a bad heart. My sister was in a car accident {she is okay } My best friend had to put her cat down & we were hit with another wind storm that knocked power out in some area's.

Good News though yesterday was my Godson's 5th birthday. They are having a get together this evening for the adults and tomorrow they are taking the kids out bowling. Great fun to be had by all.

So that's the story of why I haven't posted in 2 months. I hope to get to post more often now.