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I'm not much of a football fan.
I'm more of a baseball kinda fanatic so today's SuperBowl game doesnt really interest me.
The only real interest i have is the half time show. I'm suppose to get a call when thats on. What time is it by the way?
Anyway..
I'm also interested in the score at the end of each quarter and the final score of course. I played some football pool at work. I dont really get it but to my understanding, if Pittsburgh has a 9 as its last score number and Arizona has a 6 (those are my numbers) i could win some serious money. Like $25. bucks! But apparently because of my numbers it would have to be a field goal game? Well that sure doesnt sound like a winner to me. There goes my $2. bucks right down the drain! I'm rootin' for the Arizona Cardinals. Only because of thier name...Cardinals and Kurt Warner is on the team. He use to be with the St Louis Rams ya know when they won the (hehe i almost typed World Series...sheesh)..Super Bowl a buncha years ago. I jumped on the football bandwagon then. Yessiree. I went as far as to buy myself a really cool Rams sweatshirt and some blue and gold football beads. I was stylin baby! I still love that sweatshirt, man. Its the warmest one i got. I sure get some comments though when i wear it. Mostly people complaining because the Rams are really sucky this year. Oh well. There's always next year.

And then i also love to watch the SuperBowl game because of the commercials. The one commercial that still cracks me up, though it never gets shown, is the Bud Light commercial. It starts off backstage of the 2004 halftime show. You know... the "wardrobe malfunction" halftime show. The one where Justin Timberlake pulled Janet Jackson's top and her boob popped out with this big old gold star positioned in just the right spot. Well in the commercial there is a bucket of Bud Light on ice sitting backstage and some guy carrying in flowers walks past it. He puts down the flowers and picks up a BudLight and he looks around for something to open it with. He see's Janet's wardrobe laying over a chair and he uses it to open the beer only to have the wardrobe rip. He tries taping it back together using a little spit. Then he walks away...and we see the half of her top fall open. I think it was clever and hilarious!

Ok so i just got my call. Its almost half time and the end score numbers are 7 and 7. Yeah. Im not gonna win.
Oh Well...
There's always next year...

Till Later....: )

Just Some Pictures...

Dannity went into the hospital on Thanksgiving day and was home on Christmas Eve. We had some very worriesome days that month. We were so concerned at one point that we had the Pastor come in and baptise her. I wasnt sure if i wanted to share some of these pictures here on this blog but decided that i should. Thank you so so very much for all your prayers. I believe in the power of prayer and i believe it really did help.
From the bottom of my heart....Thank you!

We were sooo sooo worried about her!

She would always have a smile for her brother and sisters!

When she would look at us...or any adult...her expression would be..."What do you want?" I think she was tired of all the poking the medical people were doing!

She celebrated her First Birthday in the hospital.

The other day when this picture was taken it was suppose to be about the crazy Elvis curl my daughter gave her but after we looked at the picture, the cute little expression of her face overpowers anything else in the picture!

This is our little Dannity!

We are so happy that you are home!!

Till Later......: )

Hello!

Dannity is doing just fine. She keeps getting better and better every day!

I'm still having modem problems with my computer at home so i am typing this at work on my lunch break. I have a lot to tell everyone. A lot has happened in the last month. I had an interesting visit at my home from a police office one day. I could write about that here on my lunch break but the girl that sits at the desk behind me keeps calling me over to her desk to look at her pictures in her email. Every Day. So soon i will tell you that story. But not from here.

Hope everyone had a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I turned 46 on New Years Eve.
Ugh.
Am i really this old????

Till Later....Ü

Dannity Update...

A lot has happened since my last entry.

I am having problems with my computer at home so i am typing this entry at work.
When i can figure out my modem problem i will type a more detailed entry about Dannity with pictures and everything!

Dannity has gotten much much better! Infact she may be coming home sometime this week!
She still has a feeding tube but she is able to eat regular food. The poor baby has had an IV in so many places on her body that she looks like a pin cusion! At the beginning of all this they had to put a main line in her groin and in her neck but now she just has an IV in just her hand.

She still only smiles at the kids when they make funny faces at her but she looks at us adults with this look that says..."Whadda you want?" but she does reach for me and wants me to hold her. I think adults must represent all the little procedures that have been done to her over the last month.

Her 1st birthday was December 18th and we had a little party for her. She was a bit overwhelmed. The weather turned bad that evening with ice then thunderstorms (only in St Louis!) So me and the other kids spent the night at the hospital. On the intensive care floor they have things available for family that stays over so we were very comfortable in a small waiting room with cots that we had just to ourselves. It was like a slumber party!

I need to get back to work now. I will write more later with hopefully some pictures!

Dannity may be coming home this week! Yeah!!

Till later.. Ü

More Updates...

Again I am at the hospital typing this entry. When i get home and can figure out my modem on my computer i will post a more detailed entry on Dannity's progress.

Right now i can tell you that she is getting better and better every day. We have been very worried for her. She is still in intensive care and is still on a respirator but her lungs are starting to look better and the infection is starting to clear up. Today they stopped the medication that keeps her in an induced coma. She opened her eyes for the first time in weeks it seems! She was so excited to see us that her heart rate went up. We were just as excited but needed to let her rest.

Please keep praying for her. God is listening.

My daughter created a blog thru the hospital on a website called "Caringbridge.org" it lets the families of patients post updates on the patients progress so loved ones and friends can keep up to date. I'm not sure how to put a link on here for it but if you want to look at it just go to that website and type in "Dannityfox"

Thank you for all your prayers.

Till Later...

Update On Dannity..

In my last posting i told everyone that Dannity was going to have a risky scope test the next day. That evening we had the Pastor of my friends church come up to the hospital and babtize her. She had the test the next day and it just showed some inflamation. We were worried that she may have aspirated something into her lungs. They took a sample of some secretions and tested them and they came back negative. She is still on a respirator but each day her stats keep getting better. They have her in an induced coma to keep her calm so that she doesnt mess with the tubes and wires all connected to her. They had to put a main line into her neck because the IVs in her hands were colapsing her veins. It has been over a week and they still dont know what is causing the pneumonia. I'm sorry if this update seems rushed. I am again at the hospital typing this.

Thank you everyone for all your prayers. Its helping.

~Terry Ü


Till Later....

Please Pray

Please pray for my little granddaughter Dannity.
She is still in the PIC Unit on a venilator.
I am at the hospital right now on the Ronald McDonald House waiting room computer so i really can not go into detail what has happened since my last posting. Tomorrow she is having a procedure where they take a scope with a camera and go into her lungs to see if she has aspirated anything.

Please pray for her.

Please.

Till later...