Just a short note to put in writing that one of my New Years resolutions is going to be back on Zanga  

I’ve been spending too much time on Ford Truck World and SUV World and doing things to my truck.  Shame on me…it’s been an escape I guess.

Today we go and find out the results of the last biopsy on my Mother-in-law.  We had a little piece of good news last week .  When they were starting to do the liver biopsy (CT scan biopsy) they discovered there was nothing on her liver so they re-did her pancreas.  They pulled a lot of tissue this time so they could get an accurate reading.  We know that there it is cancer but to what degree is the question.  We are hoping that it will be operable (this will make her a diabetic) but hopefully will still let her be around a while longer.

The best to you all and I’ll try to get back and visit everyone’s site soon.

I know it’s been a long time and your probably very surprised that I am writing this.  There has been a lot of drama in my life and thought better of posting and depressing everyone.  But it is time that I try to get some of this off my shoulders and see if it can help heal a little.

My Mother-in-law has been getting ill since July.  With the aid of an MRI they are now looking at pancreatic cancer.  What course of action is taken will depend on whether it has spread to her liver or not.  They will be doing another biopsy on Wednesday of the liver to determine that.  She has another appointment with a surgeon this morning to review what her options will be once that has been decided.  She will be 69 years old on 1/1/04, so needless to say this is hitting the family pretty hard.  She has lost 45 pounds since July and looks very frail and thin.

We have still been going through the re-model and the contractor has finally finished up the major things this past week.  Of course there are some minor gliches he needs to fix but we are now trying to get everything painted so we can get back to normal.  Geesh what flakes these contractors are!!!  This was a very big learning experience for us in dealing them.  Of course we had heard horror stories from friends but to experience it ourselves has been a very rude awakening.

Hope this finds everyone having a very good Thanksgiving with your family and friends and I’ll try not to be gone very long, hopefully this will be theraputic.