Today my sister in law, Jennie, came and helped me around the house. We pulled everything out of my upstairs linen closet and sorted it. I was glad to throw some things away and give a nice basketful to DI. Jennie even made labels for the shelves so that we can keep the closet organized. Yeah!
We had a flood in our basement because of the heavy rains over the weekend. The water seeped in through the window well and got the carpet all wet. This is about the 3rd or 4th time this has happened. David and I both want to get some different flooring for this room (no more carpet). Does anyone have a suggestion for us? This is our exercise room, though we also have several bookshelves as well. My idea was to put down linoleum and then get an area rug for part of the room. Jennie mentioned some type of flooring that is rubber, I think, and the panels fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. It is used at gyms, I think.
I also visited the pain management Dr. this afternoon. He was kind and helpful and wants to keep meeting with me until all my pain is under control. I have my next treatment on the 15th for an infusion of Ixempra and then I will start taking the Xeloda pills again. Last time I had a problem with my back hurting, so I had to stop the oral medicine. If my pain is better under control this time, maybe I will be able to continue the pills and they will help shrink my liver. It is still enlarged, which isn't really uncomfortable, but it makes my clothes fit funny and sometimes it is a bit like being pregnant, having a swollen belly.
My nausea is slowly getting better, so I am hopeful that I can enjoy the next week and feel up to doing more things.
Emilee
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Hello,
Angela Owen here-my dad is Sterling Baer. What a bummer on your house flooding :( It was fun to visit your blog--if you want to visit ours, there are some great quotes from my toddler on the left side! kowenfam.blogspot.com
Hang in there,
Angela
How about......just lay some sod in there, since it likes to just overflow and the rainy season is just starting -- it'd be like having a park in your basement!! Then Sandy could hang out down there too. Okay, lack of feasibility in my plan necessitates some seriousness -- go for the tile option -- linoleum will lift up and warp and grow mold and mildew underneath. I know -- I ripped out all the moldy linoleum in our parents' spare bathroom downstairs a number of years ago. It was foul. Real tile will be cemented down, can be flooded without too many problems, and can look nice in the process. Just throw down a big ol' rug, and lift it off when it floods. I'd worry about your drywall and trim along the floor. But wait, you didn't want this to be the post from Home Depot....
Got a joke for ya -- Dad, plug your ears --
Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?
A: Elefino! (works better in person, as I can just see your furrowed brow and puzzled look....that's a long "I" sound, in the punchline. Oh well, whatever. Have our brother Dave explain it to you.....)
Hasta la pasta.
-- Daniel & Meggin and nutty fam
My dear sweet Emilee,
It's me- Julie (Fisher-Sommerville) Chesley. For those that don't know me- I have known Emilee well, I don't remember NOT knowing her. I used to babysit her, then she babysat for me. Emilee is the one, when I lived in West Valley, that she knocked on my door one day and said "I'm here to clean your bathroom." Oh how I wish I had the strength to clean the bathroom before she cleaned my bathroom. She had heard that I was undergoing cancer treatment. I think it was the 1st time I was diagnosed with Hodgkins. She used to take my newborn twins (boy-girl) and at least one of my older girls. She would take them for a night or two so I could have the break- I had 7 kids at home and Emilee was my life-saver!!! She was there the other two times I had a recurrence as well. I left Utah to come back home to Stockton in Sept. 2003. I was horrified that I wasn't there to go and 'clean her bathroom' for her like she did for me.
I have seen her through the years but imagine my surprise when Karen (hopkins) Crow showed up at my door to go over camp songs in mid July and she said "I have a surprise for you" and there was Emilee on my porch with her little one. It was so nice for the 3 of us to sing camp songs from the good ole days, while we trying to teach my daughter Courtney some of the songs so that she could teach them at camp this year. We talked about how tired chemo makes you and how it is hard to try to stay happy all the time. So many times we just want to yell that it just isnt fair. But for the sakes of our friends and family - and what good would it really do anyway to yell- we smile! We smile through the pain, the tired, the everything. I am so inspired by her. I have been sick- but Emilee makes it look easy and doable.
Emilee- I love you and I wish I was there for you like you were for me. Thank you for everything. I am praying for you and your family and I am honored to call you friend.
Love Julie
Talofa Emilee! It's me Marie Ma'o. How's the cutest, smartest, bright-eyed, blond hair & ribboned young lady on the whole block of Lan Ark in Stockton, CA? What sweet memories I have of your wonderful little family next door. You know I've been living in the South Pacific for almost 20 years and I don't have much advice for basement flooring! It's too hot in the tropics to have a basement. All my prayers are for you and your comfort; your sweet family and your parents whom I love more than life. Your strength and smile say so much about you! Heavenly Father watches over you and the angels do too! Lots of love from across the miles...
Marie
Cleaning out your closet yesterday inspired me to clean out mine. I have some clothes I'll bring down that should fit you well during this enlarged liver stage. I'll bring them on Monday.
Here is a link to an example of rubber flooring: http://www.mygymfloor.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx?gclid=CKKgvMielZYCFQRfagodgWLRFA though the tile Daniel mentioned may look nicer. The rubber flooring could work, though, to absorb sound and can be taken apart and cleaned if flooding occurs again.
Hi Emilee, I have concluded that your dad finally felt sorry for dimwits like me struggling to get into blogging!! Glad he wrote the instructions because knowing my luck I shall lose myself in cyber space. We are expecting the computer expert on Thursday to hopefully put the internet on Rob's computer. We have tried several times and get so far and then the instructions reach a point where nothing seems to make sense. Should I put that down to our advanced years? Rob suggests that you have the basement window checked for where the leak happens so that it can be sealed properly to stop further flooding. His other suggestion was to have the water table checked as well. There were severe floods in the UK last summer and houses that were not flooded are now having problems because the water leaked under the floors and the joists and floorboards are rotting as well as there being rising damp. So I guess that is the same concern that Daniel has? I went for a diabetes check up this morning and everything went well. Anne-Marie is still recovering from her knee operation, exercises the knee and sleeps a lot because the anaesthetic isn't out of her system yet. It will be good to see her next week. Glen suggested we were amusing when we blogged. Sadly I am not the sort to come up with jokes. Though my favourite "funny" is about a man who bought a house and each night he went to bed he couldn't sleep because he could hear pitter patter puff puff noises. Eventually he couldn't stand it anymore so he got the builders in and they tore down the wall and some of the floor. And there was a little mouse runing along the hot water pipes blowing his feet. Pitter patter puff puff!! OK I can hear the groans from here. Apparently the wet summer here has affected the shrimps in Morecambe Bay (near Blackpool) because the resultant fresh water is flowing into the ocean and diluting the salt water. It is also a turbulent time for the stock markets which is affecting so many people and I am thankful we don't have shares in anything; that we are retired and we are in rented housing so don't have mortgage concerns either. On a final thought; your friend Angela said there were her toddler's quotes on her blog. How about this one from my eldest daughter aged about 3; we were in an RC church and as the priest and servers were leaving after the Mass he walked down the aisle and as he got to us, my daughter leaned across and said "Please hurry up, I want to use my potty!"
Have a good day, Love Ruth
Emilee,
I have known you since moving our family to Stockton in 1997. Your dad was our bishop and both of your parents are very dear to us. We moved to Omaha Nebraska 11 years ago but have kept in touch with your mom and dad over the years. We love their Christmas family news letters and look forward to them! I am amazed and inspired by your family and by you.
I cleaned out our linen closet this weekend too but everything I took out and set aside in the Goodwill bin was put back into the closet by my 88 year old Mother-in-law who isn't ready to part with any of the items I was sure we didn't need. My 5 year old, Shannon, asked me to help her with her closet and I said "I couldn't find the energy for more cleaning and sorting at the time." A few minutes later She asked me "Mom, What color is energy?" Difficult question. She must have gone looking for it's bin. I don't know the answer so I got into her closet with her and sorted all the littlest pet shop toys into the grey bin and the polly pockets into the purple bin. Didn't find any energy but all the bins were full again. I wish I could send you some of her energy and I promise I would just save a little bit for myself.
Emilee, you are in my prayers each day and Shannon's too. Hang in there.
Love and Hugs,
Louise Wilcox
Well, I thought I would tell you a little about your Greatgrandfather George Dolberg. He lived in Quincy Oregon, and my mother (his daughter Mabel), and family lived in Lake Oswego Oregon, we had lived nearby but moved when I was three, so one Sunday a month we would go to dinner at his house and his third wife, Nina, the sweetest granny a kid could have. They lived in a one bed room house set above the roadway, there was a single car garage and the inside was covered in license plates from all the cars he had collected, on the back side was the wood shed, where he would cut and split wood by hand all summer, he was in his 60s when I knew him, and they heated with oil, but cooked with a big old wood stove that took up most of the kitchen, that stove would fry our chicken dinner, and bake bisquits and pies and bread, and boil potates that mixed with the cream from the lone cow they kept, would make you start to drool way before it was time to eat. There was also a small haybarn/chicken coop where I would be sent to find eggs, and off to the side another large wire pen full of cages. In those cages were the most stange and odd birds I had ever seen, some with big ruffs on their necks, some with out feathers in various places, all sizes and colors. Then there were the doves, pheasents, quail, quinae foul, peacocks and hens, and more. That was your great Grandpas hobby, he collected and traded exotic birds. He also raised rabbits for food and trade, and I am sure that some Sunday "chicken" dinners had four drumsticks, but they never told me why. He would give me a rabbit pelt once in a while and I would make some small craft project out of it. We moved away when I was starting the 4th grade, so I did not see him again until I was in the 7th when we returned to Portland. He had slowed down a bit, but was still going strong, when we move away to Idaho in 1963.
Hi Emilee!
My sister has that flooring that they use in gyms and it is great. I can ask her about it if you are interested. Glad they are trying to keep your pain under control and that you have a new doctor that listens to you. You deserve it. Sure love you,
Laura Taylor
Em,
Oh, how I sympathize with the "losing of the tie" drama. Do you know how many times we're supposed to leave for church or somewhere and we're looking for that last Sunday shoe or the cub scout neckerchief or the dog's puppy coat, etc. One time the kids couldn't find the remote for the TV to switch it from TV to video. They all gathered in the living room and said a prayer together. (This was about 4 years ago). The second the prayer was over, Olivia said, "Under the guest room bed." They all ran in there and sure enough, there it was. She still remembers that and considers it an answer to prayer.
I saw the book Chrissie put together for you on Saturday. She did such a good job, didn't she? I read a few of the entries and was very touched with the love so many have for you. In reading your blog I continue to be touched by how many people you know! How fun to reconnect with so many people from your past.
So sorry about your flooding problem. In Delta we had a window that flooded because the window well was not tight against the house. We ended up pouring a cement pad in the backyard, right up against that window well. They slanted the cement upward so water would run away from the house. It solved the problem and gave us a great patio out back.
Well, the morning routine is calling. I need to make bread today or tomorrow. I'll bring you some since you're a fan of this recipe and I know homemade bread makes life just a little bit better.
Talk to you soon! Love ya - Julie
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