Time Fly's when your havin fun or under sadation!

What a busy month it has been sense my last post. At the end of Nov. Trisha and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. It's hard to believe we have been married that long it only bean like a short time ago we got married. We spent Thanksgiving here in Sacramento with some good friends of ours Mike and Gina. Gina's mom and step dad when hear from New Jersey visiting her and the grand kids. We both had a great time over dinner at there home. It's always interesting to partake in other families traditions and to sample different family's food chooses for the holidays. Mike and Gina's Thanksgiving food dish's were different being from the east coast then say what I grew up having. All the food was great and again we had a great evening with them.

In the early part of Dec. I finally got to see a Neurosurgeon about my back and leg pains. I had been waiting for a long time trying to get in and see one. After looking over my MRI's from last year and this year he could see my bulging disk getting worse and bigger. We talk about the options and decide that surgery to remove the bugle would be best for me. The earliest he could do it would be the first part of Jan after the holidays. I was hoping to do it before the holidays so that I could use the time off I was taking to recover but he was booked.

Trisha and I left Sacramento on the 23rd of Dec to start are Christmas holiday. We drove to Prineville were we spent about a week with my parents, brothers and sister. We had a great time there. It's not vary often that we can get the hole Family together in one place for vary long. We also brought our to puppy's with us. They had a great time playing with all the other dogs at mom and dad's house I think there was a total of 7 dog's there. We had plenty of snow this year and had a true white Christmas.

We left Prineville and headed to Portland to spend time with Trisha family as well as attend a wedding for a good Friends of ours Ralph and Kristen. We exchanged gifts with Trisha family and had a great visit with them as well. The Wedding was short and sweet. It was fun to see old friends who we have for what ever reason lost touch with over the years. I was really taken back on how much things have changed in Troutdale and Gresham sense we had moved away many years ago. It definitely is not how I remember it. Trisha and I did some driving around and took a trip down memory lane one afternoon. We drove by our high school and My old home as well as a duplex we lived in before we moved.

We left Portland and headed home to Elk Grove on Sunday, the following mooring I had to go out to Travis for my Pre op appt. and to fill out some paper work for my back surgery. I spent most of the day at Travis and came home that afternoon. On Wednesday the 7th of Jan Trisha and I drove out to the hospital on Travis AFB, I got singed in and ready for the fun of surgery. From what I 'm told it took about 3 and a half hours to do. I really don't remember much after going in to the prep room. I woke up in the recovery room vary groggy and tried I was not in vary much pain at the time. They moved me to my room ware Trisha was waiting for my. They had me move from the gurney to the bed. After I was aware of what was going on they brought me some vary tasty hospital food, and I tyred to chock it down the best I could. After eating I was ready to walk, the nurse put a lease on me just in case I fell down and I walk around the wing. After sitting in my chair and walk the Doctor came in to see me and asked how I was doing. He saw no reason to keep me in the hospital over night and let me go home to my bed.

I could tell right a way that the sugary had helped relive the back and leg pain because it was gone and it hasn't come back yet. I am sit sore from were the incision was made but that is the only pain I have at this point. I feel better and better everyday and an able to do more and mo0re everyday as well. my only concern is that I might try to do to much and hurt my self again, so I'm trying to take it easy for now. My Mom, Jason and Jenna came down to visit after I got out of the hospital. I'm sure they were board of watching movies by the time they left but I did go down to old Sac and walked around for a while with them just to get out of the house. I always enjoy there visit and love to play cards with them. I kind of reminds me of being a kid again but just for a short while.

Well that it for know I will try and be better about updating this thing more often.

Rain, Rain and more Rain.

Rain has come to the Sacramento Valley once again,and summer is officially over and in comes's the winter. So lets see what has happened in the last month or so. I went Deer hunting with mike from Work and was not successful once again this year. I have been relining on Mike naibors how have hunt in Nor Cal. a lot longer then Mike and I. you would think that they would know some good areas to go to. They had all decided to go to an area called Meadow lake which is just north of Trukee. The camp there a lot durning the summer and know the area well. Mike drove up on Thursday and I drove up on Friday. When I got there, there was a ton of people camping there and Hunting as well. Opening weekend was a little scary with so many people out, I Made sure to ware as much hunter Orange as I could get my hands on. With so many people there, their was way to much presser on the deer and they were not moving at all. I did see any deer for the first three days. I started to ask the other guys in the group if they had had any success in this area and come to find out none of them had kill anything at all annoyware in Cal. so I have decided to do my own scouting this summer and find an area that I think will work or not even put in for a tag next year and go Elk hunt with Dad next year. I was vary disappointed in the trip. I can home on Tuesday and spent a few days with Trisha and had a wonderful couple of days at home with her. I had convinced her to go back to meadow lake with me and the Pup's. At first she didn't want to but she got excited about taking the Pup's camping. We drove up on Friday and got our tent set up just in time for the rain to set in and once it started it didn't stop. It rained and rained and rained. We went to bed around 7:00 pm because of the rain. We put the Dogs in our sleeping bags because it was a bit on the cold side at night and they don't have a lot of hair to keep them warm. It was a long night with little sleep for me and I'm sure Trisha didn't sleep much either. We got up early in the morring and it was still rain so I put Trisha and the Puppy's in the truck and broke camp in the rain, as did the other guys that where up there with us. On the way out of Meadow lake we were flagged down by another truck and told that there was and RV stuck in the mud on the road out and we would not be able to go around them. We drove back to the camp to relay the info to the others still packing up there stuff. and waited for a while and tyred to figger out another way out. There where other roads in and out of the lake but they were in bad shape and anyone pulling a trailer or did not have a big 4X4 could not drive them and make it out. I did not want to risk getting stuck with Trisha and the dogs with me so that was out of the question( Trisha gets nerves driving down a gravel road so 4wheeling was not going to happen). After about an hour we drove back to were this RV was to be stuck at. It had gotten out but left a huge muddy mess Trisha called Mike and told him it was clear and we drove out and waited in a parking lot not far from Hwy 89 for everyone. It was defiantly one of those trips that we wont forget and can laugh about now.

In other new my back is not doing vary well. I'm having terrible pains in my back and down my left leg. My pain Doctor has been giving me more and more med to try and help but I am not getting much better. They want me to see a Nero Surgeon to see if they can take the pressure off the nerve in my back but it is taking so long. The first consult got cancelled by the other Doctor that works at the pain clinic I go to. I don't like him vary well he did the shoot in my back a year ago and then wanted to experiment on me with one of his new toyed he had never used. I didn't like that at all and told him NO. If he See's me in the waiting room and he will grab me and talk to me instead of letting me see the normal person that I have been working with. When he did this last time I was in he really screewed up my referral and messed up my meds. So last time I was in he tried again and I told him No I did not want to see him that Chris was handling it for me not him. He came back and said that he was the Doc and see was a nurse proctioner. I told him I didn't care who he was or was not She was handling my case and I no longer wanted to be see by him. He was not happy about it but I don't care, he messes everything up ever time I see him, and I am tired of it. Chris kept apologising but I told her it's not her fault and I will not see him anymore. She resubmitted the consult for me. The surgeon called and I wont see him for a month, he had no appointment until 2 Dec so for know it's more Drugs and pain. I was hoping to have the surgery if that's what will help durning Dec sense we have Vacation shedualed for Christmas already. I would just tack on another week or two and not worry about work and teaching sense there no classes in Dec. but how know if or when I'll be able to do it know.

Well that's enough winning for today.