Kate's been busy...but she's back for now

Sorry about the absence, but we've had a few happenings...
My father finished his Chemo, and he started smoking again...I'm not happy about that, but I'm a firm believer in Live and let live...so, I'll shut up...
While dad's been going through all that, my 92 y/o grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer...she underwent a lumpectomy a couple of weeks back and that went well, she returned for more tests and they discovered that some more tissue needs to be removed, but they assured her that this surgery won't be as bad as the lumpectomy...

My grandmother is my hero...she's 92 and strong and a very quick healer...I can't imagine for a second what she's going through mentally at this point..

She hadn't quite gotten used to her son having cancer and then she's diagnosed with it herself....at her age...

I love her very much and I hope that I can be as strong as her...
She claims she doesn't feel that strong, and that the days are okay, but the nights are awful not having someone there with her...

I'm praying for her though and I will continue to pray for her and my father..meanwhile, I'm struggling with my own issues...

I've been working a lot lately filling in where we're short at the hospital and that doesn't leave time to care for my own health...even though I'm not technically ill, I've been battling allergies my whole life and now, without my steroid injections, I've been having an exceptionally hard time breathing...

It used to be just my nose was continuously stopped up and it is so bothersome but now, I've begun wheezing...coughing...and even parts of the skin of my face is inflamed...I went to see the allergy specialist today again and they want to do a repeat CT scan tomorrow, he did a PFT to see if my "wheezing" is due to asthma...and it proved I have no asthma, my pft's were only 8% better after 2 puffs of albuterol...
go figure...I could have told him that...and my FVC was in the 90% of normal range...

he stated that the pft showed that I have some obstruction but that he can't prove that it's caused by allergies...

anyways, just give me the damn steroid injection and let me live a normal life for as long as I possibly can....

I getting so frustrated....

On the ADD subject, I've been seeing a counselor for ADD evaluation to appease my primary care physician and so today he wrote me out another script for Adderall without question...yay....I feel a little successful today...

Yet still frustrated because of the allergies...

Thursday they will remove the tissue from my grandmother and that's where I'll be, then Friday/Saturday I'll be working...so....

Please be patient with my absence...I will return, I promise...

Take care
kT

Things that make you go WTF???

The following article was printed on the KSDK website here in St. Louis!!!

Why on earth do things like this happen??

"Man, 94, Beaten To Death; Hand Cut Off
Created: 1/21/2008 3:04:41 PM
Last updated: 1/21/2008 3:05:05 PM

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (AP) -- A 94-year-old man was found fatally beaten early Monday in a thicket of bushes, his left hand cut off, and three people were arrested in what might have been a botched robbery, authorities said.

Willie Lee Morgan, who was reported missing Saturday, "died a horrible death," Hamblen County Sheriff Esco Jarnigan said.

Two butcher knives and a left hand were found in one of the suspects' cars.

"This poor man was supposed to die peacefully on a front porch swing, not like this," Jarnigan said.

Darrell Nance, 22, was charged with murder and Jessica Lane, 23, was charged with accessory to murder. Brice Whaley, whose age was not immediately available, was charged as an accessory after the fact and abuse of a corpse.

Jarnigan said the suspects may have been trying to steal cash from Morgan's home or hold him for ransom as payback for money owed by some of Morgan's family members.

Nance and Lane are a couple with a criminal history of drug abuse, he said.

Whaley is accused of helping to dispose of the body afterward. He led authorities to the body in an industrial park about 40 miles northeast of Knoxville near this east Tennessee town.

The three suspects were in the Hamblen County Jail pending bond hearings. A jail official said Monday afternoon she did not know if they had retained attorneys.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)"

For the life of me, I will never understand why such cruelty has to happen in today's world...

I just don't know what to say about this...I'm outraged!!!

kT