Things that make you(r doctor) go hmmm

February 12th, 2008 / Categories: Alaska, Moose Nuggets / 4 Comments »

So, I saw the internist yesterday – first available appointment after all the heart hoo-ha. After I filled out (what seemed like) reams of paperwork to get me admitted into the inner sanctum – past all the many office workers – I sat in the examining room for quite awhile before he was able to come to see me.

I thumbed through several (very) old magazines – what IS it with doctors’ offices anyway? I mean, there were magazines from 2001!!! ANYway . . .

He came in, I put the National Geographic down and he told me to keep reading because he wanted to go through my chart to read the reports on all the tests. So I sat quietly while he read.

“Hmmm” he said. “Huh!” and then “Hmmmmm” again several more times. I finally started laughing and said “you’re reading the cath report aren’t you?” And he said that he was.

Finally he closed the file – opened it one more time to re-read a section, closed it and looked at me and smiled.

“Well! We know you HAD a heart attack, but we don’t know why!”

You see I really AM an enigma after all. The tests have all come back as good as they can – and that leaves the docs all scratching their heads and calling me “lucky.”

My friends, luck had absolutely NOTHING to do with any of this. I’m a child of the King and blessed beyond all blessings to be able to tell you so. It is only by His grace and by His mercy that I have come through both kidney cancer and a heart attack in such fine fettle. All I can do is praise Him and thank Him and try to serve Him better.

Hope you’re all having a good week. Our temps have come up a bit – it is clear up to 18 degrees ABOVE zero this morning! Whoot! That is a welcome change from the below zero stuff of the past two weeks. It’s something like a 40 degree shift in temps! Gotta love living in Alaska.

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February 7th, 2008 / Categories: Family, Moose Nuggets / 2 Comments »

It’s time to play Separated at Birth again.

It’s always fun to me to see people who resemble each other – generally generations apart. You might remember my posts about Eric Bogosian and Elliott Gould

and then Ana Gasteyer and Katherine Hahn .

Now I give you Valerie Bertinelli of the 70’s show One Day at a Time
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and Lindsey Price of the newest show Lipstick Jungle.

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Lindsey has that whole oriental thing going (her mother is Korean), and Valerie’s face is rounder, but seen separately they bear a strong resemblance. Don’t you think?

and, now if you will excuse me . . . I think I will go and see how good the new show is.

123 me me for batty

February 7th, 2008 / Categories: Alaska, Moose Nuggets / 3 Comments »

Because she asked so nicely (well, she told me to, anyway) here you go – a meme for Batty.

The 123 Rules:
1) Pick up the book nearest you with at least 123 pages. (No cheating!)
2) Turn to page 123.
3) Count the first five sentences.
4) Post the next three sentences.
5) Tag five other bloggers.

I don’t trust newspapers, don’t like them, usually wouldn’t be caught dead reading them; but this was different.

This time I was outside the official circle of information, and I needed a starting point. I was going to do something about Ginger Watkins’ death, jurisdictions be da***d.

From J.A. Jance’s Injustice for All

Yes, I have deeper books, but this was the closest to me if you don’t count Cruden’s Complete Concordance – which doesn’t have complete sentences. It is right next to me, but doesn’t count for this meme.

As for tagging someone . . . nahhhhhhhhh – y’all play amongst yourselves nicely and if you choose to do it, let me know. 😉

Off to work now – off to face the frigid winter air – it IS warmer today, however – clear up to minus 7 degrees!!!! It is virtually BALMY out there – compared to the minus 20s we had earlier this week – and DEFINITELY compared to the minus 70 degree temps they are having in the Interior region of the state.

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Baby it’s cold outside!

February 1st, 2008 / Categories: Family, Moose Nuggets / 3 Comments »

smlmoose312.JPG It’s so cold that the moose have frost on their faces, too! I caught this cow moose as she tried to cross the highway. This is at the corner I turn towards work.

At first she and her calf were on the road I was going to turn onto, then a car came and scared them up into the snow next to the road. She stared at me while I waited for traffic to clear so I could make the turn. Since she was posing so prettily I grabbed the camera and got a shot of her. Her calf ran off the other way.

After I made the turn, mama moosie ventured out onto the highway and on across. Baby crossed afterwards, I’m sure. (they have a way of either finding mama or making their own way – at this stage they are able to make it by themselves if they have to.)
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No it’s not an optical illusion – they really are bigger than cars. That’s why it’s so dangerous to hit one – they come up and over the top of the vehicle, often tearing off the roof of the car – or at the least, denting it in and breaking out the glass of the car, injuring the folks inside.

And, you sure don’t want one to still be alive and on top of your car – those hooves are dangerous!

But – they are fun to watch. In fact, Lessa tells me that her dog woke her up at 3:30 this morning because one was in her window.

And, the grands called us this morning to let us know they couldn’t get to our house for breakfast because there was one in our driveway. So Paw-Paw Moosie drove down to pick them up and bring them back here.
😉 He’s a softy like that.

If you want soft and embarassing and sickingly sweet (hahaha) go on over and read Lessa’s take on her parents. Sigh!

A Special Request

January 31st, 2008 / Categories: Moose Nuggets / 27 Comments »

Share a Square – update:

sasbags.JPGShelly has done such a great job with, first, having the idea, and second, following through on the idea to gift 140 campers with afghans . . . Share a Square was born on a whim and took off on a wing and a prayer.

A lot of people have written and said they could neither knit or crochet, that they could sew. So, it is THOSE people on whom we call now. All of the squares needed to complete the afghans have been collected. They are being joined together. That part of the project is complete.

The first youngster to receive an afghan loved it – he would not take the tags off it (each square in each afghan is made by different people who place a tag on it with their good wishes) for two weeks she was told. Then he would shuffle the tags like cards, looking through them again and again.

So, Shelly had another great idea – wouldn’t it be fun if each child had a bag in which to hold their tags once they were taken off the afghans?

Yeah, I thought so, too. So, I agreed to put out a plea to you all requesting your help in this. We are putting together 140 afghans, so we need 140 bags. They can be as simple or as fancy as you choose. I will be collecting 70 bags and Sherry at Yellow Rose Garden is collecting 70 bags.

The bags pictured above are just to give you an idea. The white bag is probably too big for the project, but the dark red one is just about the right size at 3 1/2 by 5 inches. I received it at a welcome home shower for a Chinese orphan who was adopted by people at church. It is made of Chinese silk and held candy as I recall – from China.

But it looks to be a perfect size to hold all of the tags from an afghan.

If you are interested in helping with this part of the project, drop a comment here – make sure to leave your email address. I’ll get in touch with you and we can exchange address information at that time.

Thanks, everyone.

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