Lindsay is feeling better today, one more time to the doctor on Monday then the oncologist on Tuesday. She is almost there. Our little man Dylan is starting all day kindergarten on Monday. Where did the last 5 years go? We are so excited and so is he, it is going to be scary for Lindsay and myself but he will do great.


Immigration

This is the only thing on the news in Arizona these days. I have a proposal that will help all parties involved, I am sure many of you may disagree but bear with me. We pull our troops out of Afghanistan and take the 500 million dollars per week that we spend over there to put our soldiers in harms way for no apparent reason and we build the Great Wall of China on our southern border. 100 ft tall, 100 ft wide and we create 3 ports of entry. We then work with our immigration officials to help those who would like to be here legally to become citizens if they meet the criteria. This would create jobs and bring our soldiers back to help protect our borders not Pakistan's. Just a thought....

Lindsay had a pretty good week, she was in some major pain early in the week due to the expansion. The last two days have been good. I know I keep saying it but once they get the expander's out and the real thing in I think she will feel much better. I am just excited to be able to hug and hold her again without her being in pain. Once again thanks for all the prayers and help that we have received.

Thanks again to the people at Hensley for putting together a raffle and lunch to benefit Lindsays walk. Warehouse personnel, drivers, salesmen, administrators, owners and all the big dogs were present and donated. We cannot thank Doug Kendall and everyone that helped out enough. They raised some serious money. Once again it is amazing to see people come together, people are awesome!

Our golf tournament is getting big, I have changed my goal of 144 golfers to 200. They were nice enough at the Biltmore to give us the second course for that day so we will have plenty of room now.

Movies

We went to the movies last night. I learned that the people that make kids movies are the only ones with original ideas left, the other people continue to put out cop movies where the two cops hate each other in the beginning and then become friends and save the world. The second part of my learning process was finding out how much everything costs. $10.50 per adult $8 for kids, seriously wow... The real shocker was the price of their nachos, $7. Do these people understand that our country is in the middle of a recession? I will make this promise now, if Obama can figure out how to get the movie theaters from gauging us with their nacho prices I will vote for him next time...

Yet another day at doctor Boll's office, these people are becoming family. Lindsay once again is in some pain due to another expansion, I think we are getting very close to being done with them. I hope so because I hate seeing her in pain I think she has gone through enough. We also were able to see the general surgeon Dr. Eden. He was very happy about the way things looked. He left it up to Lindsay on weather or not she would be going on Tamoxifen which is a hormone blocker. This is an effective yet scary drug, it creates mood swings and sometimes puts you into early menopause which is not ideal at 33. The hormones are what accelerate the cancer so that is what this is used to block. We will be getting more info from an oncologist soon. Just when you thought the fun was over!


Quick question

Why does the guy on the Bachelorette always have to tell everyone that they are down to the last rose? Could he please for once just stay in the hallway and let her give that last rose out? Talk about someone begging for airtime. What a joke. If you are wondering how I know so much about the show, it is because my wife MAKES me watch it.

B

Finally a cloudy day in the valley. Lindsay is feeling good but for some reason is still having pain daily I think due to the expander's. Hopefully 5 more expansions then we can get on to the next surgery. Brady sure is happy that she can hold him sometimes, he missed his mommy for sure.


Life

There was a story on the news last night that a lady left her baby on her front door step in his car seat for 30 minutes in 110 degree weather. What is wrong with people, we are worried about immigration and oil spills. I think it is about time we put together a bill that makes people have a licence to have a child, put them through some testing before they can make babies. After all don't we need a license to drive, get married and fish?

Yet another expansion today for Lindsay. Unfortunately for her it hurt bad today, the needle has not hurt her that bad in the past. The good thing is that Dr. Boll said it is great that she is getting feeling back in her skin the bad thing is that she is getting feeling back in her skin and it is painful. Hopefully she only has a few left, this part of the process is not fun for her. She is doing very well other than on the days the expansion occurs. The boys are being very helpful.

Speed

There was a story on the news tonight about a couple of guys that were able to collect 120,000 signatures to go against the speed cameras that we have in the valley. My question is if you have enough time in your life to collect 120,000 signatures why are you in such a hurry. Get a life and slow down dudes.

We were able to get out of the house tonight for about 2 hours. Yes this means Lindsay is feeling better. We went to Zipp's to say goodbye to 2 girls that she has worked with for a while, they are moving. Everyone commented on how great she looked, I think she looks better than ever. It is hard to believe she had a double mastectomy 32 days ago. Don't get me wrong, she still has a few more procedures to go through, but she is feeling better and that is all that matters.

Thanks to the Hladik family for dinner! You have been incredible.

We have secured a date for our golf tournament to benefit Team Boobweiser (Lindsay's Team)in the 3 day walk. The tournament will be August 14th, 7am at the Biltmore Golf Course in Phoenix. It will be $75.00 per player. We will have great raffle prizes and silent auction items. We are also working on getting a good room rate just in case people want to stay the night- and for those that are traveling from out of town. I will post an entry form on this site in the next few days if anyone is interested.


Heat

Every summer in Phoenix the local "professional" meteorologists think that it is good to remind us that it gets hot here. They get out and interview people on the streets and ask them questions like "can you believe how hot it is?" Right on schedule tonight one of these so called "weathermen" decided to try to fry an egg on the sidewalk. Hello, we live in the desert. I hope these guys do not make more than teachers, firemen and policemen. Unfortunately I think they do, the bad part is that they feel like they serve the public. Here is my forecast for the next two months in the Metro Phoenix area. It is going to be mostly sunny or partly cloudy and HOT. Thank you, do I have the job?

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Day 31 after surgery, it seems like it has been 3 months not one. Today Lindsay had her second expansion, it went better than last week I think because she knew what to expect. Now of course she has some pain due to the stretching of the skin and muscle. She is dealing very well with it she is tough. Hopefully next week will be one of the last expansion's then we will begin to schedule the next surgery.

Thanks again to the Hunter family last night for the food, you all are awesome. Thanks to the Master's family on Saturday for holding their own party to benefit Jo Jo getting to walk on Lindsay's team in November. They raised $1350.00 towards Jo Jo's portion of the team.

Foresight

I was driving around today and noticed on the back of a guys truck two scorpion stickers. We sometimes see scorpions at our house, this of course reminds me that I have not found one in quite a while. I get that feeling that there is a reason I saw those stickers on this guys truck. Of course tonight in the garage I almost stepped on one, I killed it then did a full house search for any others. These are the freakiest creatures on the planet, if you have not seen one under a black light you must check it out it is creepy. I guess the point to my story is why in the world would you have two scorpion stickers on your truck? Get a life dude!!!!!