Happy Birthday Charlee Annie

My sweet oldest daughter turned 29 years old today. Happy birthday baby. Sorry we are not there to celebrate with you sweetheart but we will be home this weekend and it will be party time. It does not seem possible that Cha is that old. I still remember her little red head running around on her tippy toes everywhere she went. Always in a swimming suit with one butt check hanging out that was tanner than the other. Now I get to see our little Gorda Cheese and she reminds me so much of her sweet Mama. Anyway Happy Birthday babe, wish I was there to give you a hug!!!!!

Richard Ed Davis

It was a year ago today that Daddy passed away. I am missing him a bunch. With the first anniversary of his death and Father's Day this weekend it's a double whammy. The good news is I'm sure he is content where ever he is. He had so much faith and I hope he wasn't disappointed in what he found on the other side. There are so many theories about heaven/hell etc. His was a very simple belief and I hope, for him, it was met. I love you Dad and appreciate everything you ever did for me, and that's a bunch of things. You were a very opinionated and many times judgmental person, but never to me. I had a million "learning experiences" in my life, many that I'm sure were embarrassing to you but you never once reacted like that to me.

I remember once when I was about 18 and hot pants were the big rage. I bought a real short pair with some go-go boots and a kind of shear shirt. I got all dressed up to go out and Mom just had a fit. She said "You wait till your Dad sees you in that garb you won;t be going anywhere." When Dad walked in Mom said "Look at what she thinks she is going out of this house in!" Dad looked at me and said, Wow, she looks beautiful." That was always how he was to me and later when the stakes were much higher, he still responded with love. I remember when I told him I was pregnant with Teddi, all he said was , "Honey, how can I help?" That's the Dad I remember and will forever love and appreciate. Happy Father's Day Daddy.

Treatment Day

I have had a real good week. My radiation site is almost healed completely and I fell pretty good. A little indigestion but that's about all. I went for my Herceptin treatment today and was pretty much in and out. It only took about two hours so that was nice. There was a new patient there today, a woman about my age with the most beautiful hair clear past her waist. She said that today is three weeks in treatment and it started to fall out today. She was going to go home tonight and cut it for Locks of Love and donate it. I felt so bad for her. I said to her that I would like to tell her there is an upside to losing your hair but there isn't one so..................I did feel so bad for her that she is just starting into it to. I showed everyone my curly hair and they all agreed how lucky I am that it came in so thick and curly. I guess most peoples come in in patches and real thin (I know everyone I was in treatment with had real sparse thin hair coming in. I have really been so fortunate all the way around on this deal-knock on wood- and thanks for all your thoughts and prayers)

Cliff and I are still bored but we are going to visit Cliff's cousins in Vegas on Friday, then we are going to Olivia's dance recital on Saturday morning and then we are leaving from there to go on our trip so I am counting the days. Oh Cliff's Mom and Dad's housed got burglarized yesterday. They left for a minute to get a hamburger for lunch and left the side door to the garage unlocked and someone broke in in the 15 minutes they were gone and took their lap top and their big screen TV. I felt so bad for them I am just grateful that Cliff's Mom (who is blind) was not home alone when it happened or goodness knows what would have happened. So as always we count our blessings with the thought that the things lost are only things and can be replaced and everyone is OK.

Happy Birthday Traci

Happy birthday Traci. Today our Traci is 19 years old. She is all grown up now so happy birthday Traci!!!

It has been a very boring week. My radiation site is healing nicely and I would say is 80% healed but still quite sore. I am wearing a bra and that's nice but by night time I am really ready for pj's. Now that I am feeling better, I am getting bored with sitting around. Good thing we are leaving on our trip next weekend cause we are both about ready to pull our hair out with just sitting and doing nothing. AS soon as we get back we are both starting to look for jobs. I can't wait to get back to work, I don't care doing what just something productive.

I got up about 6:.00 and started to wash all the windows and of course it started sprinkling rain. SO strange, here it is June 12th and the high today is 80 and light rain. Whaz up with that! Anyway it didn't last long so I got the windows washed and then came inside and dusted all my window blinds and swept the floor. I had mended some of Teddi's work uniforms so I decided to wash them for her just to have something to do. Then I walked over to Charlee Ann's for a few minutes and saw the kids. Gordy was so funny with her hair all a mess and her little butt in a diaper and her Mexican house shoes on. Tony was sitting playing his playstation with a beanie on pulled down to his eyes. He is so cute. I ever got a kiss from my big boy this morning. Then when I got home I got to talk to Olivia and she told me her Buzz Lightyear didn't fly he just falls with style. She is so darn funny. Cliff got up about 10:00 and I made us a breakfast burrito and since then we have sat in the family room watching HGTV. What a life. Now it's 6:00pm and we haven't done enough today to even be hungry for dinner. Who would have thought. I told him we will have to get something cause I am not cooking tonight. I have had too hard a day (HA)

Better Day

Cliff got me an Aloe Vera plant and I used the leaves to rub all over my radiation site and it is already so much better. The first time I did it I didn't cut the little spina's off the sides of the leaves and poked myself but then I got smarter and trimmed them off and now it's a breeze. It is really helping a lot. I even had enough balls to put a bra on and go get my feet and nails done. That made me feel so much better. Now I kinda look like a girl. Then Cliff and I went to Walmart and got Traci a birthday card and some misc Wally-World stuff. We also had lunch at Subway so it was our big day out. We normally just sit in the house or work in the yard all day. It is definitely time to get back to work we are both going nuts.

My hair is driving me buts. I AM thankful that it's growing and is thick and soft BUT it is so curly that I can't do anything with it. It is just kind of a helmet head and has NO style. You would think with lots of make up and some cool earrings I could get away with it but no, I just look like a mix between a dyke and a lipstick lesbian. Woe is me. So I keep wearing the wig which is fine but does get hot. Just one more thing to teach me patience and acceptance. I think I must be a slow learner cause I still resist! HA

And.........................

Well I'll start where I left off. Mom got here last weekend and I was sick as a dog. My allergies turned unto a bronchial thing and I was a mess. Cliff went on Friday and picked her up at the airport. She said if she had known I was gonna be sick she would have stayed home. Cliff told her that I only got really sick the night before so oh,well.

Saturday I rallied a little and drove her to Vegas to Uncle Hugh's funeral. It was held a Palm Mortuary on Eastern and was really the nicest funeral I have been to. Really about him and not full of preachy BS. It was also nice because many of his friends spoke who really knew him and it made me feel like I really knew him much better. It did make me sad that we sat there (his family) and had no idea who he was, while his friends knew him so well. I guess that's the way it is most of the time. Most people are who they are "suppose to be" to their family and only their friends know the real "you".

By Sunday I was in bed all day again, Aunt Helen came over and her and Mom visited but I was pretty out of it. Got up Monday and dropped Mom off at the airport in my pj's didn't even put on the boobus just went commando. Came home and stayed in bed the rest of the day. When I went to the doctor on Tuesday morning, he took one look at me and told me I had pneumonia . Gave me a bunch of prescriptions and sent me off to treatment. By know I am burnt so bad that I look like a trauma victim. I am amazed that they take it as far as they do, I guess they have to but they should warn you cause "bad sunburn my ass" more like Hiroshima victim. Anyway I finished my last radiation treatment on Wednesday sick as a dog and came home. I was already blistered, swollen, and peeling. Just big weeping sores, so disgusting. I haven't had clothes on since Wednesday and now it's Monday morning and I am still in my pj's (don' t freak out they are clean , cute ones).

Cliff and I have laid around until we are about insane. Now he is coughing and sick and has a swollen groin. We looked on the Internet and it said the swollen groin could be from a cold or infection so he is now on antibiotics. We are just a mess. We were going to leave last Wednesday to go to Toby's in Oregon but have now put it off until about the 20th. Hopefully we will both be well (or at least a lot better) by then. I am also taking benadryl cause I have a rash all over the left side of my body that itches like crazy. Lord, I pray this gets better soon. So that's our sad story. Hopefully I will have something awe inspiring to write soon but as for now I am just sitting here scratching and moaning!!HA