Good Riddance!!

Tucson

As I sit here I am counting down to the end of this horrible year.  I have 100 minutes left of 2009 and I can't get rid of it quick enough.  This has truly been a horrible year for us.  Just a recap.

Jan   --  My brother Dick starts out the year in the hospital and comes home mid January and dies Jan 21.

Feb.  --  Our wonderful doctor dies of a sudden heart attack.  Leaves us scrambling for a new doctor.

Mar --   Al becomes sick while we are visiting friends in Lake Havasu.  I get him back to Tucson as fast as I can.  He winds up in the hospital with a staph infection and ultimately has to have one of his knee replacements re-done. He spends 28 days in hospital/rehab. 

On a good note, we welcome Ada JoEllen into the world, great granddaughter #4.

Apr. --  Al goes back into the hospital for a couple of days as his picc line is infected.  ENOUGH of the hospitals!

May  --  We are prepared to leave Tucson and head back to Washington, however, we are held up because I am having some medical problems......

June  --  We finally head north...Al takes a nasty fall in Idaho Falls, ID and cracks two ribs. 

July  --  In Alaska, we hold my brothers memorial.  Then a few days later his daughter, my niece dies.

Aug --   We take a cruise from Alaska to Vancouver....and we had a good month..FINALLY!!!

Sept.  -- Billie and Dan almost lose their home to the horrible brush fire that engulfs southern California.  

Oct. --  Finally, a fairly quiet month.  We get back to Tucson in one piece and start to breath a sigh of relief...this year is almost over.  However, end of Oct. Jennifer calls and says she will have to have a hysterectomy...pre cancer cells have shown their ugly heads.

Nov. -  We fly back to Seattle to help Jennifer through surgery and get her back on her feet.  She is doing well.
Also in Nov. we fly to Missouri to meet great granddaughters Sophie and Ada and to visit with Grandson David and Tiffany.  We spend Thanksgiving with Mike, Bev, Sarah and other two great granddaughters, Natasha and Nadia.

Dec.  --  It's almost over, this year of 2009, but not before it knocks us around one more time.  Natasha has a small brain tumor and is operated on for removal.  She bounces back quickly, thank God, but is it really over?  We won't know for sure until 2010 if she will have to have radiation or chemo. 

So the drama that was 2009 is almost gone.  I can only pray that 2010 will be a much better year for us. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our family and friends.......I have 62 minutes left of 2009.  Not gonna answer my phone................