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R.I.P., Dad January 1, 2004 12:00 am |
10/23/33 - 1/1/04
Beloved Father
Devoted Friend
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I'm Back January 13, 2004 12:00 am |
Thanks for bearing with me these past couple of weeks. Just really haven't felt like doing this page after what happened.
Anyway, here's what happened. Several months ago my dad was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his asophagus. The doctors had spent the intervening time using radiation treatments and chemo to get the tumor reduced in size enough for them to be able to remove it.
Which is just what they did, a few days before Christmas. They removed his entire asophagus, then stretched his stomach to replace it. All traces of the cancer were removed. (A few new spots were found on his liver, but the doctors weren't concered, as those would be easily removable at a future date.) He came home from the hospital on Christmas Eve.
Three days later he was back in. Woke up Saturday morning with shortness of breath and chest pains. Problem developed because if the doctors gave him enough morphine for the chest pains to stop, he would lose consciousness and his breathing problems would get worse. The situation eventually got bad enough that he lapsed into a coma and had to be put on life support. When the doctors realized that nothing more could be done for him, we had the life support removed, as he would not want to life the rest of his life that way. The respirator was stopped at 9:38am New Years Day, and he stopped breathing five minutes later.
As near as we've been able to determine, his transplanted heart was not a factor in any of these problems, and gave him eight years of health that he otherwise would not have had. Our thanks go out to all the doctors, nurses and staff at Saint Francis Hospital for all they've done over the years.
Thanks also to all of you for your thoughts and prayers. 10:44am
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Why We're REALLY Going to Mars... January 20, 2004 12:00 am |
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The 264th Sign of the Apocalypse January 21, 2004 12:00 am |
During the NASCAR off-season, The Speed Channel has been rerunning, in order, the 2003 races: Busch Series on Wednesdays, Craftsman Trucks on Thursdays, and Winston Cup on Fridays, two races at a time. The Busch reruns have just reached the halfway point in the 2003 series, and watching these races have reinforced my belief that Kerry Earnhardt is the absolute worst driver to have stepped in a Busch car in the nearly ten years that I've been following NASCAR, if not the worst ever. When he actually finished a race, he was no better than 14th. Most of the time, if he wasn't wrecking out of the race, he was wrecking someone else.
He's been signed to drive in five Nextel Cup races this year for Richard Childress Racing: four points events (including three at superspeedways) and the Nextel equivalent of the Winston Open.
I am firmly convinced that the only reason he's even being allowed on the track is because of who his daddy was. That is a very dangerous excuse. They feel the need to put another Earnhardt on the track, they should get sister Kelly. She's a million times a better driver than Kerry. I plan to immedately boycott the company sponsoring his #33 car, Bass Pro Shops. (No big deal, though, since I don't fish.)
Due to the restrictor plates, when wrecks occur at superspeedways they are more spectacular than at other tracks. Woe to Kerry if he should wreck and DNF his brother in the process.
To those of you who tune in to NASCAR races just to see accidents, tune in to one of Kerry's races this year. You
probably won't be disappointed. 11:27pm
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An Oklahoma Milestone January 21, 2004 12:00 am |
Today the state continues its recently-set record, reaching the 250th day in a row that Oklahoma has gone without seeing a tornado. Click here for the story. 11:56am
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Dept. of Unanswerable Questions January 22, 2004 12:00 am |
Wouldn't the plural of caucus be cauci? 8:38am
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Why Dennis Kucinich Is Doing So Bad In The Campaign... January 22, 2004 12:00 am |
Every time he appears in an interview or sound bite on the news shows, his name is followed by "D-OH". 8:30am
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