Steve you lucky BASTARD!!!!!!

Steve, my buddy at work got near Kelsey Webb from WNCI. What a lucky bastard. She was at the Jim Tressel book signing. Steve called me and told me she was there so I rolled up there to say hi.

It's been 6 months already!

Life sure has changed. Headed to the doc this afternoon for a regular check up.

Transplant Games

We will post an update and pictures, but I just wanted to say Neal did a great job. Tomorrow is 6 months from the transplant and if a stranger saw him they would never guess. He shaved about 10 minutes off of his last 5k time, which is unheard of. On the way home, Neal was the only one that did not need a nap. Things sure have changed.




Here is the article in case you missed it....
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2008/07/12/1_BEST_FRIENDS.ART_ART_07-12-08_D1_53AMO8U.html?sid=101

Just a reminder the article comes out Saturday in the life section. We are getting ready to leave for Pittsburgh. Neal has been practicing all week. Hopefully he will bring home the gold medal. It will be a busy weekend. Here is a tribute Neal wrote for Ryan.

http://www.kidney.org/news/tgames/usgames/tributeShow.cfm?t=l

It is about half way down the page.

Counting down to stardom

Wednesday night we met up with the Dispatch photographer at Ryan and Leslie's. She took a lot of photos and I think we entertained her. The guys had their arms around each other (this was a first) and we played a couple of hands of euchre....I know exciting! The article is supposed to come out on Saturday the 12th in the Life section. Ryan and Leslie are off to Costa Rica and as soon as they return we are headed to Pittsburgh for the Transplant games. Next week, Neal will be practicing for the games. It will be a jam packed weekend.

We took a ride down to Hocking Hills for the 4th. Neal, Austin and I went hiking. I think we got a little more than we intended, but we made it out. We were out for almost 4 hours and had lunch by Cedar Falls. It really was beautiful. Unfortunatly it rained the entire time back. We were soaked and of course I slipped and got all muddy. We think it was around 6 or 7 miles. Quite a workout. Austin even fell asleep on the way home.



We are now at home and Neal and Austin (age 13) are playing Wii. I am watching two, I guess I would call them boys. They are constantly making fun of one another. Although I am wondering which one is truly more mature, I am smiling watching them. Boys and men will be boys! I will have to try and get video tape of their touchdown dances!

Im gonna be iron like a lion in zion

We made it home.

Updates

Something interesting happened to me the other day. My transplant doctor retired. It would have been nice to know a little in advance so I could "interview" some other doctors. I am just going to see Dr. Davies. She is a really good doctor. I think she borders on insanity and genius. She is very smart. I had her as my last transplant doctor so I know I am in good hands.

Now the tennis update. I have picked tennis back up after a 15 year hiatus. It took about a month now and I have my swing back. I went from losing to my sister Stacy 6-0,6-0 to losing 6-3,6-4. Give me another month and I will be kickin her a$$. I also joined a tennis league. There are some good people in the league and some bad people. So I fit in just fine.

Jen, Matt, Connor, Leslie, and Ryan came over for dinner last night. We played rockband!!!!!!! God it was great. Also, we have yet another personalized plate. It is over there ------------>


We are headed off to Jamaica in less than 24 hours.