Where have we been!?

Quite a big update is coming. Keep checking back, there will be a new post within the next 48 hours. It’ll be rather important!

November 8th, 2011:
I apologize once again for the delay in updating everything, so just gonna explain what has been going on.

1. My closest friend Chuck; his father passed away on Friday, November 4th, with a courageous battle with skin cancer. He had to immediately go to North Carolina, so I was/have been house (aka: dog-sitting) for him for the past week. I absolutely loved doing it, and having some time to prioritize some of the things in my life.

2. My best friend Chuck’s girlfriend’s mother Carol died on November 5th, 2011 after battle cancer as well. She started off with cancer in her liver, that spread to her lungs, and eventually was in her bones. She went through a chemo/radiation treatment and was sent home from the hospital after staying there for nearly 2 weeks. They called the ambulance on the evening of the 5th, she wasn’t able to keep anything down and wasn’t ‘there’ per-say. She told Rhonda (her daughter) and her husband that she didn’t want them to see her this way (while she was throwing up). Not even 5 minutes after they left, she ended up passing away. Needless to say, I think she was waiting for them to leave, and that she knew the lord was coming for her. She was one of the most amazing people that you’d ever meet in this world.

3. A close family friend of ours & his family for nearly 15 years was the first thing that happened. Kevin Teagarden 42, who was one of the most friendly men in this world, hard-working, and extremely good looking, had 2 kids, Madison who was 9, and Kevin, Jr. who was going to be turning 2. His was Tammy Teagarden was 42. Needless to say, Tammy was leaving Kevin after they had been together for nearly 20 years. We’re not quite sure of what would have been the reason for everything to happen the way it did, but Kevin used a 22 gauge shotgun that holds 4 bullets, and he used all 4 bullets. He killed his 2 children Madison & Kevin, JR. He then turned the gun on his wife Tammy & then himself. I/we would have never imagined that he would be capable of what he did, but apparently there were things that we just didn’t see. I personally could understand killing your wife & yourself if you believe that is the only way to ‘solve’ the issue(s) at hand, but why the 2 children was beyond me. My dad & I had a conversation about it, (my dad was good friends with Kevin for 30 years, hunted/fished together, and even worked together for a period of time). The way my dad tried to explain it to me is that maybe he thought that he was doing the kids a favor; not quite a favor in my eyes, but he didn’t want to leave them without either of their parents, or the horrific acts of watching it all happen. Something that I personally would have rather seen, and I’m sure everyone would agree with. That’s why we have therapy and what-not in this world. They had 2 separate funerals for the family. Kevin was shown (and buried) alone, and Tammy, Madison & Kevin Jr. were shown (and buried) together.

I am just glad that this is all over with, it’s been quite traumatic to say the least, I’ve lost a lot of great people in the past 8 weeks, and personally don’t think that I can handle one more death.

Along with that, I celebrated my 28th birthday on October 27th, though I don’t think celebrate would be the word that I’d use. On October 26th, I went to the doctors office because the lymph nodes in my neck were hurting extremely bad, and I felt like I had a sinus infection. When I was at the doctor’s office, the doctor came back into the room and told me that he had consulted with his ‘boss’ (I can’t even remember the doctor’s name; was all a blur). When he came back into the room, he informed me that the CT scan that I had done at the hospital showed that I had a liason on my liver, however it appeared to be benign (non-cancerous) when I was there. Well, he told me that the liason had grown 3mm (milimetres) in length, and that the white blood cells appear to be attacking my liver in an attempt to heal it. This was causing a ‘ripple effect’. The liver was enlarged because it was trying to heal itself, it was then pushing on to my small intestine, not allowing for much to pass through. They then proceeded to tell me that it appears that this now many be malignant (cancerous). They set me up with a series of tests, the first one was done on Friday, and that was some blood-work, followed by another CT scan. On Thursday of this week, I have a colonoscopy (which is a tube/scope up the hole in which I’d rather not have a tube up). Once I get done with the colonoscopy, they’re going to be doing a liver biopsy, followed by an appointment to the oncologist.

** It has been one of the worst month’s that I have had in a long time, so I’d apologize for not being around as much as I would like to, but the real world does and will always come first. I am attempting to get myself back into the groove of things. I personally feel ‘fine’, the sickness symptoms have subsided a great deal. **

◙ The one thing that I did manage to do was get the IRCNewbies.com domain name paid for, and it’s set up to auto-renew every year so that way I don’t have to do a thing. Only thing I didn’t like was, seems like since I have been working on it, have a certain amount of unique hits per month, and what-not, they decided to jack the price up or something, lol. I paid nearly double what I did last year, which didn’t make much sense to me, but I wasn’t/wouldn’t let it expire, especially since it’d be picked up, and sold off for someone else to make a profit, that’s not what this is about, it’s kinda like my baby. ◙