OK, so the Cardinals CHOKED in the World Series. BUT, they are still an incredible team and I am very proud of them for getting as far as they did.
My grandpa is still in the rehab center and his strength is improving each day. It has been a long hard road for him and still is. The dialysis treatments are not as smooth sailing as we had all hoped. He hates laying there for 4 hours with nothing more than a little tv and hates the after effect. His doctor has him losing weight when he goes into dialysis and that is exactly what he does. He lost 8 lbs in a 4 hour period from one of his dialysis treatments and the aftermath was horrible. He was in so much pain afterwards that his hands cramped up to the point that he could not move them and then it coursed through his body so that his whole body ached. Which was NOT something that the doctors talked to him about.
He did ask a favor of me, and it was a HUGE one. He asked me to find out about absentee voting. Mind you, my grandparents are DEMOCRATS. I found out the information for his ballot and even went and filled out the paperwork and had it sent to him. ALL so my grandpa can vote against me :oP As much as I hate the fact that he is voting for Kerry I cannot deny him his right to vote. He got his ballot in the mail yesterday and has filled it out and mailed it back. Yes, I am a traitor. But every person has their right. Even my democratic grandparents :o)
A couple of shocking things happened yesterday... One being, A girlfriend that I grew up with died yesterday. She has had ovarian cancer for quite some time and went into remission and had some really bad pains and had gone to the hospital the other night and died yesterday morning. She was only 35. Its a shocking realization that someone I have known most of my life is gone and at such an early age. Her funeral is on Monday. Then the second shock of the day was a call from my cousin. She is the one that is in the Army and the one that went to Iraq. Well, she got married a couple of weeks ago and is pregnant. Well, she has a few yrs left in the Army and her hubby does too. The chances of her hubby going BACK to Iraq is great and it will probably be around the time the baby is born, and of course my cousin is still active, so she called me and asked if I would take care of the baby IF her and her hubby were both called away. I was rather shocked at first but felt honored that my cousin would think of me over everyone else. She wants her mother to do it, but she is really not able to do it. Healthwise she is just not able to do it. The chances of both of them being sent away at once are pretty slim but the Army does require that she has someone to watch the baby. So, looks like I could have another baby to take care of at some point. But something that I am willing to do for my cousin.
That is the latest news in my life. Hubby is at a Scottish Rite function with my dad. I have to say I LOVE the way my hubby looks in a tux!!! I will have to add a pic of him when I get a chance to take one :o)