SUMMER'S LAST HURRAH

Its hot and its going to get hotter. Here is the NWS Special Advisory for my area tomorrow:

Special Weather Statement

Statement as of 4:25 AM PDT on September 10, 2009

... Hot temperatures over interior northern California today and Friday...

A strong ridge of high pressure will build over the region
resulting in hot daytime high temperatures today and Friday.
Most Central Valley high temperatures will be warming into the upper 90s to around 100 today... and into the 100 to 106 range on Friday. Record high temperatures may occur over the southern Sacramento and northern San Joaquin valleys on Friday.

Temperatures are expected to cool back into the 90s on Saturday...
with continued cooling on Sunday and early next week.

Some record high temperatures for Friday... September 11th...
Redding... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 113 degrees
Red Bluff... ... ... ... ... ... ... .110 degrees
Sacramento... ... ... ... ... ... ... 106 degrees
Sacramento Executive Airport... 103 degrees
Stockton... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..103 degrees
Modesto... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 101 degrees

Hot weather will also occur in the mountains and foothills today and Friday with high temperatures in the 80s and 90s. Overnight minimum temperatures at the warmer locations in the foothills may only drop into the upper 60s to middle 70s Friday and Saturday mornings.

Jhm

"Let's all be careful out there!"

DEFYING GRAVITY season 1, episode 8

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DEFYING GRAVITY season 1, episode 7

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DEFYING GRAVITY season 1, episode 6

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DEFYING GRAVITY season 1, episode 5

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DEFYING GRAVITY season 1, episode 4

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DEFYING GRAVITY season 1, episode 3

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DEFYING GRAVTY season 1, episode 2

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DEFYING GRAVITY season1, episode 1 (pilot)

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SPECIAL FOR ALISSA & ANGELA

Just wanted you to know that I received, and am wearing, my "WILL Power" bracelet.

Anyone wanting to know more about this, just go to:

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/willpage

and learn about Will Page, a beautiful 4 year old boy fighting leukemia.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

That's how the fight started

Here are 10 short, funny things that can start a fight with your spouse.

Take care.

1) My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels.

She asked, "What's on TV?"

I said, "Dust."

And then the fight started...

2) My wife and I were watching "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" while we were in bed.
I turned to her and said, "Do you want to have sex?"
"No," she answered.
I then said, "Is that your final answer?"
She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, "Yes."
So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."

And then the fight started...

3) Saturday morning I got up early to go fishing, quietly dressed, made my lunch, and tip-toed into the garage. I hooked up the boat to the truck and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour. The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day.

I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. I cuddled up to my wife's back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, "The weather out there is terrible."
My loving wife of 10 years replied, "Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?"

And that's how the fight started...

4) I rear-ended a car this morning. So, there we were alongside the road and slowly the other driver got out of his car. You know how sometimes you just get so stressed, and little things just seem funny?

Yeah, well I couldn't believe it... He was a DWARF!!!
He stormed over to my car, looked up at me, and shouted, "I AM NOT HAPPY!!!"
So I looked down at him and said, "Well, then which one are you?"

And then the fight started...

5) My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, 'I want something shiny & sleek, that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.'

I bought her a scale.

And then the fight started...

6) When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her some place expensive.

So, I took her to a gas station.

And then the fight started...

7) After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver's license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.

The woman said, "Unbutton your shirt." So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, "That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me." And she processed my Social Security application.

When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office. She said, "You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too."

And then the fight started...

8) My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.

My wife asked, "Do you know her?"

"Yes," I sighed, "She's my old girlfriend. I understand she started drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since."

"My God!" says my wife, "who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?"

And then the fight started...

9) I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.
"I'll have the strip steak, rare, please."

He said, "Aren't you worried about 'mad cow'?"

"Nah, she can order for herself."

And then the fight started...

10) A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, "I feel horrible. I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment."

The husband replies, "Your eyesight's damn near perfect."

And then the fight started...

Have a great say, everybody!

"Let's all be careful out there!"

THE GREAT LES PAUL

Those of you who pay attention to more than reality TV shows may have noted the passing of Les Paul. He was 94.

HULU.COM started streaming this excellent documentary about his life and the amazing contributions he made to the music industry. It is just over 1h 45m long. The last 30 minutes is the performance he did at the IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB in NYC on his 90th birthday. Until 8 weeks before his death, he played at the IRIDIUM (BTW - the club is pronounced "eye-rid-ee-um") every Monday night for the last 25 years.

You don't have to watch this, just click it to play and then go about your business. Those of you old enough to remember him will be able to just enjoy the music from an era long past. Those too young to know who he was will learn something in a most pleasing way.

Sadly, since this is on HULU, it probably won't stream outside of the USA. But you might try using an anonymous proxy server to do a work-around. I am not sure if that will work but it is worth a try.

To those who are able to view this, I hope you enjoy it.




"Let's all be careful out there!"

OLDER THAN DIRT...

I received this e-mail the other day from a friend on Maui and thought I would share it with everyone.

Enjoy---





Someone asked the other day,

"What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"

"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow."

"C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"

"It was a place called 'at home,''' I explained. "Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it."

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :

• Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis , set foot on a golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
• My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.
• I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow).
• We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
• I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie." When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
• I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
• Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
• All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers, my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every day. On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
• Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend :

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

How many do you remember?

• Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
• Ignition switches on the dashboard.
• Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
• Real ice boxes.
• Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
• Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
• Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

• 1. Blackjack chewing gum
• 2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
• 3. Candy cigarettes
• 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
• 5. Coffee shops or diners with table side juke boxes
• 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
• 7. Party lines on the telephone
• 8.. Newsreels before the movie
• 9. P.F. Flyers
• 10. Butch wax
• 11. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels [if you were fortunate]
• 12. Peashooters
• 13. Howdy Doody
• 14. 45 RPM records
• 15. S&H greenstamps
• 17. Metal ice trays with lever
• 18. Mimeograph paper
• 20. Packards
• 22. Cork popguns
• 23. Drive-ins
• 24. Studebakers
• 25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends...

Chuck Boone

"Let's all be careful out there!"

AND THE WINNER IS...

In September the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will present their annual EMMY Award program.
As an alternative, I offer the OH MY Awards for the worst that TV serves up on our entertainment (?) platter.

Without a doubt, the worst host of a TV talk show has to be Jimmy Fallon. After 85 episodes of his show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, I am amazed that a person could be so bad at stand up comedy.. You hear more laughs in a dentist's waiting room than from his audience.

His comedic sketches lack ingenuity or humor. You can see when the audience is supposed to laugh but they, and I, just sit there. The only person entertained by Jimmy's sense of humor is Jimmy.

He also lacks the ability to interview a guest. In fact the only guests that he seems capable of inter-acting with, on any level, are current and former members of SNL.

If you have an opportunity to watch this show, DON'T!

And that's my "two-cents" worth.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

TOLERANCE LEVELS

Of late, I have noticed that my threshold for stupidity is lowering.

My cell phone rings, the area code (707) indicates that the call is coming from somewhere in the northwest of California. I have friends and family living in that area, but I do not recognize the actual number.

"Hello."

"Is this Best Buy?"

"I'm sorry but you have the wrong number."

"Okay."

***click***

Not an unusual occurrence..

30 seconds later the cell rings again. From the same number.

"Boy, you must really be stupid to call the same number that you were just told was a wrong number."

"Is this Best Buy?"

"Try 4-1-1, dummy."

***click***

Of course, 30 seconds later, the same number calls me again.

"Excuse me ma'am, but what part of
STUPID FUCKING BITCH
does not apply to you? This is the third time you've called the same wrong number! In less than 2 minutes!! It was wrong the first time and it isn't going to be right, no matter how many times you call back. What are you? A crack whore whose last brain cells were erased 30 seconds before you picked up the phone?"

***click***
(she disconnected).

Phone stopped ringing.

Ah, peace.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE...

A stand-up comedian.



But I am afraid that people will laugh at me.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

ITS WAS FRAKKIN' HOT YESTERDAY

AND TODAY IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAME

Here in Modesto, CA we topped out at 110f (43.3c). That the actual temp. Not the "heat index". For the first time this year I actually had to turn on the AC. Saturday was 105 and thats my upper limit for no AC.

Suppose to cool down to 100 on Tuesday and for the rest of the week. Well, I'd rather deal with heat than cold. I can always find a way to stay comfortable. Hate winters though. It gets down to the low 20's upper teens here (-10c to -15c) and no matter how high I set the thermostat or how many layers of clothes I wear, I never can get warm.

I sure miss Maui! Always the perfect temp.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

WACKO JACKO JOKES

Farrah Fawcett dies and goes to heaven. God asks her what she would like her legacy to be. She thinks for a moment and says, "The protection of children."
**POOF**
Michael Jackson dies.



Did you know when it was bedtime at Neverland? When the "Big" hand touched the "little" hand.

Michael Jackson was born a cute little black kid and died an ugly old white lady.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

TECHNOLOGICAL FAUX PAS

I've just read that some fashion designer has come up with a dress that will "light up" when the wearer's cell phone rings.

Geez!

As if those damn phones weren't already a pain in a movie theater.

Of course, I can see one advantage. If your daughter is late coming home from "studying with her girlfriends", you can always drive out to the local "Lover's Lane", call her number and see which car's interior suddenly lights up.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

COULD WE BE THE FIRST?

Not withstanding all the UFO crap that has been published over the last 61 years, the fact still remains that there has never been any undeniable proof that this backwater planet of ours has ever been visited by non-terrestrial entities.

So lets consider this. The Universe is about 14.7 billion years old. Our sun is a third generation star and is about 4.5 billion years old. It took the chemicals and elements created in the first and second generation stars to achieve life on Earth, Except for the artificially created heavy elements on the Periodic Table, all the rest were necessary for the creation of life. The fact that life evolved into an intelligent form (Check your "Beam me up, Scotty" jokes at the door) is, in all likelihood, a very, very rare event.

Yes, I do believe that other "thinking" critters exist in the Cosmos but someone (something?) has to be the first to take that tentative step away from its home planet and I believe that we could, as easily as any others, be the "FIRST". We are the ET's of our Solar System and possibly our Galaxy and even possibly the entire Universe.

I mean, lets face it, some has to be first and why not us?


Just something to ponder this weekend.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

ITS BEEN AWHILE...

HASN'T IT?
Chemo-therapy continues (and will until early October), with the mormal associated side-effects. lUCKILY, i STILL HAVE MY HAIR.. No nausea but a lot of activity at the southern end of my body.. My spirit varys from day-to-day but I would say I am "up" about 75% of the time.

Tonight was a great night. My #2 grandson graduated from highschool this evening. As I write this, he and the vast majority of his classmates are boarding a dinner/dance cruise on San Francisco Bay. Part of the "Sober Graduation" program. It will, obviously, last all night and then they will be returned to their school, by charter bus, sometime tomorrow. He starts Fresno State University this fall with plans to become a dentist.

Anyway, I just wanted to let y'all know that "eyes still kick'n"

Catch ya on the flip side.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

HI, EVERYBODY!!

I am sorry that it has been so long since I have updated here.

My first Chemo session went pretty good. Didn't have any of the major side-effects that they had alerted me to. In fact, I can only think of two reactions. First, my right wrist was touch sensitive for about 48 hours after they did the IV session. Second was a strong bout of lethargy. I was exhausted. And that one still continues. I go back in for my second IV session on this coming Tuesday. Hopefully, everything will maintain.

My surgery wound is healing nicely. . The binder (think wrap-around girdle) came off yesterday and I should be able to quit bandaging the lower part of the wound later next week.. I stopped doing the top part two weeks ago..

Good news on the home front is that today is grandson #3's 16th birthday. We are having a small family party tonight and he will have his big "friends" party later this month. Budgetary restrictions and Mom's work schedule are the reason for the delay. You understand.

I really appreciate all the well-wishes,, friendly comments and blessed donations.

Had another eye exam last week. Cataracts, as I've mentioned before, but now they've added something called cornea dystrophy. Whatever in the hell that is.

Geez! If I would have known that I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself. LOL :)

Did any of you ever see the TV show "Kath & Kim"? It was a very poor rip-off of a great Aussie production by the same name. Well, this week, while at the surgeon's office, "Kim" was my nurse. Okay, not the actual "Kim" from the TV show but a young lady that could have been her double. She wore her hair in the exact same manner but was a lot smarter than the character she resembled. Have you ever thought about how hard it must be to play a really "dumb" character?

Oh, well. More later. My love to all.

p.s. -
Alissa, I miss you.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

THE DRUGS WILL KILL YOU

That was the opening statement during my first meeting with the oncologist.

Okay?!

So, chemo-therapy begins this coming 28th. Mu;tiple pills everyday and IV treatment every 2 weeks.. Many side-effects, including an advertion to cold. Cold temps. Cold drink. Cold food.

There will be 12 treatments over 24 weeks.. Nausea loss of appitite, etc. are also part of what I can expect.

Internet searches say I have an 83% chance of recovery. The doctor says maybe 60%, if lucky, but probably closer to 50%.

Boy, thats encouraging.

Looks like I have a lot to look forward to over the next 6 months. Yippee!?

On a sidebar, the incision is healing nicely but I have contracted a yeast infection in that area. Hopefully the powder I've been given will do the job. I didn't know guys could get a yeast infection, LOL.

Social Security still continues to deny my disability claim. That fight continues.

So, the odds are that I will get to see this Christmas but I shouldn't really make any long term plans beyond that.

SIGH.

Please bear with me as I relate whats happening. I know it will be boring to some and upsetting to others but I am going to try and keep it real.

I am still working on my review of television and should have that posted tomorrow or Monday.

Any assistance you can provide is greatly appreciated.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

TOO FUNNY TO IGNORE

Later today I will write an update about what is going on with my health issues. Some good news, some not so. Oh, well. Life marches on.

I am also working on a critique of the current state of television, and some shows in particular. Hope you can come back by and leave a comment as to whether you agree with me, or not.

Love to all and a big MAHALO for your generous donations.


"Let's all be careful out there!"

HI, EVERYBODY!!

I have been home from the hospital for a week now. In some respects it seems longer and with the Vicodin, a good portion of the past 168 hours is lost in a purple haze.

To summarize what occurred:
I started feeling bad about the middle of February, pain in the lower abdomin, etc. Thought I had somehow incurred a hernia. Being the stuberon bloke that I am, I thought I would just endure the discomfort. Bad move. The pain kept increasing until I could barely walk in my house, let alone anywhere else. Finally, on Friday, March 6th, the pain becazme unbearable and I called 9-1-1 to get to the hospital. At this point, the details begin to fade. What I thought was a hernia was actually an appendicitus attack. The appendix had perforated the abdominal wall and developed a cyst around it. When they opened my up, it was discovered that I had colon cancer also, I wasn't aware of this until a week later, and a large potion of my large and part of the small intestine were removed.

After surgery, I was taken to surgical ICU at the hospital. Of this I remember very, very little. Just some very vague incidents. After the weekend, I was transferred upstairs to a regular hospital room. Naturally I was attached to pumps to suck poisons from my surgical wound plus multiple IV connections. I had almost as much external plumbing as I do internal (LOL!!).

Recovery has been slow but is in progress with normally associated complication of a post surgical nature. The abdomin was opened by a cut from just below the diaphram on my right side and that extended down to my groin. I would guss about 7-8 inches long (14-16cm).

I am working on getting an appointment for chemo-therapy but the surgeon thinks she exorcised all the malignant crap and could not find any evidence that it had spread any firther or to any other organs.

This unexpected detour really screwed up the money making plans that I was developing. I have only half of this months rent.. Ain't life a bitch? The doctor told me today that the wound is not healing as nicely as she had hoped for and there will be one huge ugly scar left behind. I'll take her word, since I can barely see the damn thing. But it is definitely deep. At the bottom end, it is almost two knuckles deep.

I'll write more in a couple of days. The Vicodin really screws up my mental ability.

I'm putting the donate button back up and if anyone can assist, I'll be truly grateful and thanks to everyone who assisted earlier.. I am literally existing on a hand to mouth basis. Still waiting for disability to be approved, and waiting and waiting, etc.

Anyway, I have missed all of you.

And a big special thanks to my love, Alissa, for keeping everyone aware of what was going on this past month. I love you, my Angel.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

I am finally home.

I am under a lot of medication but will be giving y'all more info shortly.

Thanks to every one for the wonderful comments and offers of assistaance

I am in a large amount of pain at the moments but will try to give you all the dirt this weekend.



"Let's all be careful out there!"

Wil's link

Thanks to gnightgirl and chefann, I am able to get Wil's donation link back up (It is at the end of this post). For those of you who want to make a donation, please click on this link and scroll down to the bottom of the posting. Keep the kind words of encouragement coming in! I will let him know what each and everyone of you is saying. It will brighten his day.

Thanks,

Alissa


P.S. If it is not showing up as a link, just copy and paste it. I have never been a blogger before so I am a little confused as into what I am doing.


"Let's all be careful out there!"

Update

Some people have been wondering about the donation link. For some reason is has disappeared, but I will be getting in touch with Wil soon to see if he can help me set it up again. Wil is still in the hospital and is expected to be there another week. The cancer was in his colon, and out of 20 some lymph nodes, half of them were cancerous. The doctor believes she got all the cancerous ones removed, so please pray that this is so. There are some things that happened inside of his body that caused holes in certain areas that are having to be filled in with a foam type substance daily. That is why the stay in the hospital is taking so long. Once he gets access to a computer he will inform you of exactly what went on inside his body. Overall, he is doing well. He is able to get up and walk around and is taking food down. When I talked to him last night, he sounded a lot better than he had in previous conversations. He has been very drugged up so he could not remember a lot of things, but now that he is not on so much medication he is starting to remember more of what is going on on a day to day basis.

He feels so blessed to have all of his friends on here thinking about him and praying for him. Please continue to do so. Please check in soon to see if the donation link is up and for more updates. I will do my best to get it up in the next few days. I hope all is well with everyone. Have a great week!

-Alissa


"Let's all be careful out there!"
Hi Everyone,

An update on our friend Wil

Hello All,

This is Wil's friend Alissa, also sometimes referred to as "Whiskers" on Wil's blog. I spoke with Wil for an hour last night and got the scoop on his condition. He asked that I share what is going on with everyone since he has not had access to the internet. He values each and every one of you who come on his blog to check in on him and wanted to make sure all of you knew what was going on so you don't have to worry.

Throughtout the last few weeks Wil had been experiencing a great deal of pain in his stomach. At first he though it was maybe a hernia due to stress but the pain continued to get worse and worse. It eventually got so bad that he could not even move out of his bed and could not eat. Finally, last Friday, he could not take the pain any longer. He was going to call a cab to bring him to the hospital but realized he was not even capable of doing that. He called 911, was picked up, and thats when all the craziness began. He had to have emergency surgery that was very risky. He is still in some pain but it is better. Sadly, Wil has been diagnosed with cancer. The type of cancer is still unknown but the doctor said things look more in his favor for now. The future is unknown until the type of cancer is diagnosed. We will keep you posted. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers and if you can help him out in any way, it would be greatly appreciated.

He also mentioned yesterday how grateful he is to each and everyone of you who helped him out last month. He feels your love and support. A BIG thank you from Wil goes to you.

More info to come as I get it.

Thanks,

Alissa aka Wiskers

Wil has been moved

Well good news my father has been moved to a regular room. That is a good sign. The doctor and nurses said he is doing very well. I think he will go home next week and finish recovering there.
Doctors Hospital
209-578-1211
Room 408
Thanks again
Rob

Wils status

I believe in the next couple days my father will be moved out of icu into a regular room. When that happens I will post the info so he can be reached by phone. Thanks again to all of you out there for helping my father.

Rob

Williams condition

To let you all know out there that my father had to have surgery on friday 3/6/09. As of today 3/8/09 he is doing better. When he gets into a regular room I'm sure he will fill you in on all the details. And thank you to everyone that has helped him out. Keep him in your prayers, and lets hope he has a speedy recovery.

THANK YOU:
WILS SON
ROB