i don't know why my emolies are showing up in Chinese!

YOO HOO MARY...???

Glad to see you back on and we can look forward to hearing from you more often!

That is awesome the new place will be more affordable plus...well...NEW! You deserve it after such a rough year.

SO happy for you!

GOD Bless friends like that!!!!

HUGSSSSSSSSSS

Hi Ladies..............

I'm finally able to post, and should be back on a daily basis, with much thanks to Eileen, plus Shirley finally broke down and got digital internet rather than the dial-up NetZero she was using.

It will take a while for me to catch up on what's happening with everyone, but I'll spend some time reading past posts to see what's going on with everyone.

Things are moving along on my end, but, of course, not as fast as I'd like.  They were supposed to demolish the burned trailer last Monday, but discovered that morning that they have to test the site to see if there's any asbestos. So they took samples Tuesday and told me that it generally takes 7-10 business days to get the test results.  It seems I keep hearing that term:  7-10 business days.  So, hopefully I'll get the results by the end of this week and the demolition should start next week.  Things never go as expected, but I know in the end things will work out.

A few weeks ago, I was getting all types of unsolicited advice....I should definitely to for a double wide trailer; I must have two bathrooms; I should build a house instead; put a modular up; etc., etc, etc.  I'd love to have a house, and I did get estimates, but I'd be paying about $40,000 more for a house that would be smaller than the trailer I'm getting.  I've worked out the figures and my new mortgage payment will be $150 less per month, and it will include real estate taxes and home insurance in that payment.  Before the fire, my finances were such that I probably would have had to get a part-time job in September when my long-term disability from work stops.  Now, I won't have to do that.  I was in the process of streamlining my expenses and will follow thru on those plans, so things will work out well.

I'm so lucky that my friend Shirley is being so good to me, letting me and my dog, Pookie, stay with her until my new place is ready.  Not many would put themselves out like she does. I do try to keep things neat, try to be quiet after she turns in for the night, etc.  She keeps saying we're like sisters.  I am truly blessed.

I've got to go do some reading, and hopefully tomorrow I can respond to your posts. 

It's good to be back.........

The gallbladder and pancreas were full of stones and infection. The doctor biopsied the liver growth and while they finished the procedure, they did a frozen section. The doctor came out and said no cancer but they are sending the tissue off for further study. He did have massive infection from having the gall stones for so long and the doctor said that the growths in his liver were probably a result of the infection.  Anyway, unless the pathology shows something that the frozen section doesn't, there is no cancer.  However, you all remember my sister in law's cancer? Yesterday, my brother had to have her airlifted to Little Rock and the doctors there found three brain tumors. She was having massive seizures and my brother just wasn't ready to give up...even though she was.  He called me last night and said she isn't suffering now and has eaten some so he thinks he did the right thing. My brother's kids are so angry at him for not letting their mother die at home as had been planned. I told him last night that the doctor and nurses in Little Rock will do the same thing for her that those here would do and that is give her pain meds, nausea meds, and let her go.  He told me sis, I've loved her since I was 15 and she was 14 and I just don't know how to live without her and I don't want her going without me. He did say that he isn't going to kill himself so not to worry.  They married when they were 16 and 15 and have not spent a day apart since they were married.  He is 65 and she is 64...They really grew up together.  Well ladies, I am running late so I'll talk to you later.