The news is not good. Hunter (the grandbaby) has Trisomy 18, which is a usually fatal genetic defect. The doctors had diagnosed this earlier in the pregnancy but had decided the test was flawed. Turns out it wasn’t. I think I read that most babies born with this live about a week. Ones that live longer are severely impaired.
Update: they removed the baby from life support this morning. RIP Hunter.
I don’t know how much more my friend can take. Her father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has had to have several surgeries. She was in Florida with him - and her mother had a stroke. Now this. I feel so helpless - there is just nothing I can do but tell them I love them.
{{{Snakes and Friend and Family}}} There’s just not much to say in this situation except to be there and to love 'em like you said.
Happy Birthday Mr. Soapy!
Fun time this mornin’. It’s Senior Farmer’s Market Day at the senior center next door. The center participants (the name given to those who go there) get vouchers worth twenty bucks to buy produce and can get more if’n they want to spend some money. Nice produce too! I witnessed one almost altercation over some canteloupes (canteloupe! ain’t got no ladder!) but the crisis was averted. Two people wanted the same canteloupe but it was determined that the others were just as good. Hee! I was kinda disappointed. I was hopin’ for a canteloupe fight. What? I would have been amused.
donkeybear just why did you wear mascara to work? :dubious:
Well, I just managed to run about 2/3rds of the way around the back buildings in my office park, walking the rest, and I didn’t have a coronary. The day’s still young, however.
Just checking in - still don’t have my computer here yet, but it’s on the way (a friend shipped it ground for me. :)). Enjoying the dry heat (hehehe) of Albuquerque, although last night was a -bit- humid, believe it or not!
Love the OP topic, GT, although the prospect and actual sighting of small mammals is not much to my liking. LOL I still haven’t seen any squirrels in NM, but the other day my daughter saw an eagle while on her way to the laundrymat! Lots of butterflies here too - beautiful!
Hello all, I hope to be back online within a couple of weeks. I miss you all and hope all are doing well. Can’t really keep up, so will have -a lot- to catch up on when I do return!
I stayed home form irk today, because I was up coughing all night. I haz a cold. Blurf.
Got an email from A Simple Thread last night. They have asked my friend and me to serve on their Board of Directors! We still have to be voted for, but I think it’s a done deal, since we both accepted.
I would really, really like Gnat to drop his total fascination with nipples. I really would. His own, anyone else’s. It would be good. I do not know how to discourage this without it turning into a fun “oh. this pisses Mommy off” conflict.
I’m within walking distance of downtown Pittsburgh and I’ve seen all those plus turkey and others I’m forgetting. Our raccoon problem was so bad for a while a few of us had to take extreme measures. One thing I’ve never seen but I figure we have got to have them is your classic rat. Soapy - Happy Birthday late!!!
Li-Li maybe ask him why they fascinate him and help him understand they are ordinary and every living mammal has them. OOOH! Show him a cow’s udders and tell him that those things ARE nipples!
Another thunderstorm is moving in. While I don’t mind the rain, I would like some more sun so my tomatoes ripen.
Culinary Boy told me he’s going down to Columbia SC next week to remove asbestos. (He’s getting certified this week.) He’ll be down there for about two weeks or so. I just realized last night that I’m going to have to cook for myself regularly for the first time in a year and a half. That boy spoiled me. Must make menu plan for next week. I suspect there will be a lot of soup on it because I’m still po’ until next week.
Home - I’ve been home for a while, but I was working on a couple of on-line ads for a fridge and some kitchen cabinets. It’d be nice if I could sell them all quickly.
My boss is going on vacation for a week. Yes, he left me in charge again. I’m thinking he needs to come back to a GIANT version of the “chalice” - wonder if I can find a 55-gallon drum in white?
That’s what we told VunderKind about thunderstorms: it’s my parents (divorced when living), up in heaven fighting. He was a tween when both died, so he got the joke immediately.
We have a storm moving in from the west. Maybe a good amount of rain will come.
What? I would have been amused.
Must make menu plan for next week. I suspect there will be a lot of soup on it because I’m still po’ until next week.
