That's the best one I've heard yet...bar none
Hey Paul !
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nichols
Stan,
That's the one. The site still hasn't been updated with the contributions during the walk. A retired GySgt donated 300 to make sure that everyone on the team got a T-Shirt for the walk. The Gunney doesn't think his wife will mind...
Remember, I'm left-handed and attended a Sniper school at Camp Casey.... When I found out about the event last Wednesday I stumbled through registration. Initially it was Paul's, then they corrected it to Tomas. In the process two sites were created but the Team Tomas site shows $0 because all of the donations are being placed under Tomas' site. As soon as they combine the on location & electronic donations, Tomas should have credit for collecting about 2k in 3 days.
Needless to say, the children's oncology section at Walter Reed want's Tomas to be on their team next year. They do their walk in DC with a lot of people. We had 500 and Tomas was one of the recognized. So we'll have to figureout which place to walk next June and commit then.
That's gotta be the best one I've heard yet. Damn South Paw's like me :D
Say, is the USMC making you use those plastic thingies that strategically dump M4/16 hot shell casings on your right forearm :mad:
Let me get ahold of the Delta Hotel that thought that sierra up.
Darn nice Gunny that is...won't wanna be in his shoes when mamma comes home ;)
I look forward to footage of the Walk.
Keep us posted.
Regards, Stan
Don't ask us and please don't tell us
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Does this mean I'm bisexual?
Isn't it a little last to be asking that? :wry:
Always willing to explore new things...
(though SHE limits my options in that field...)
You are tryin' to get me in truh-buhl...
I showed HER the dancer, I'm not about to show HER the other one. :D
Is it Army night, or what ?
Hey Paul,
I had this feeling that Friday would come and go with yet another Marine thingy called revenge :eek:
Glad Tomas is doing well ! I was told that at that age, a little weight was OK and would eventually be burned off with activity. Mine, as you recall is 7. She'll destroy an 8 oz. steak right off the grill !!!
As for ANC, I immediately went to Acronym Finder :D
For those who served above the equator (that's you BTW), ANC translates to African National Congress or Why South Africa Sucks (no, I didn't know there was such a site). For the rest of us, cornbread, that translates to Army Nurse Corps :D
Actually Paul, I haven't the foggiest clue :o
So much time and $ training on navigation for nothing
this is what I posted on tomas' Carebridge site, I guess it's okay to post here:
I'm on my first business trip to Orlando since Tomas' dx.
Yesterday was pretty interesting, we drove down to Fredericksburg to get a desk for Tomas for his kindergarten homework that he has been doing. We thought that we would pick it up them so we took Lenka's stationwagon and my car. The intent was to drive home with Tomas and Anna in my car while Lenka and Teresa drove with the desk home. We purchased a desk that should keep him happy thru the teen years, we avoided the kiddie desks for that reason. The desk is due to be delivered on the 6th of November.
We looked across at the mall and determined that it was to crowded to go to, at this point we drove back north, Lenka and Teresa in lead, Tomas, Anna, and I in trail. Lenka took us to the Stafford Regional airport, the kids were able to go up and touch the airplanes and checkout the medivac helicopter. Good call on Lenka's part, the younger kids loved the visit, Teresa hit the boredom button about 15 minutes into the visit.
Teresa wanted to do some shopping afterwards, so I kept Tomas and Anna with me. I took the lead on a road that I hadn't been down before. It is one of those country backroads that you have to be careful on, in the blink of an eye you could find yourself across the country with no clue as to how you got there. Eventually we lost contact with Lenka and Teresa. I was under the impression that the road that we were on eventually lead to Garrisonville Road so I initially wasn't worried. Tomas and Anna figured out that we had broken contact (including cell phone) with Mom so they started to get concerned that we would never see her again. After the 10 mile circle that we did and ended up at the same 1800ish church I decided to just head East and hope to find I-95 before the sun set in the west. After about 10 minutes of driving east, both Tomas and Anna shouted "turn here." I turned the car around and took the turn that they told me to figuring it would calm (they were doing the typical kids stuff of goofing off while I was trying not to panic) them down and eventually I would get some type of comms with the cell phone. As we drove down the road, Tomas pointed out to a church and said that they park schoolbuses there, I'm thinking they park a lot of schoolbuses at churches. The two continued to mess with my brain cell by saying things like "there will be a white fence coming up soon." The kept on claiming that this was the way to their school from last year. As they are telling me about the next landmarks coming up; I'm thinking to myself, no way, I've navigated all over the world both on land and water with no landmarks and there are two preschoolers in my back seat.....backseat driving. We started to get closer to civilization, a redlight was coming up (it was the first one in what felt like 3 hours), Anna announced "turn right."
We were on Garrisonville Road about 3 miles from home.
Shift gears now.
Tomas was itchy last night, I'm praying that it isn't a long night for Lenka. I ended up sleeping in the chair next to his bed with my hand on his bed to feel when he would start scratching.
On a side note, Lenka needs additional training, I drive a 2004 Mustang, she drives a 2004 Volvo V70R. She has more horsepower and her car is faster then mine.
So much for Europeans being fast drivers ;)
we'll keep him in our prayers
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nichols
Okay...you called that right.
Long day at Walter Reed today. He was getting a Renal Lasix done to check on his kidneys. We also found out that his ANC crashed to 318, he can not fight off a common cold. ER runs for sniffles are the current battle drill. His bilirubin counts are still too high, possible liver problems and now because of the low ANC.....he's off chemotherapy. He's patroling with no weapon or body armor.
This is exactly why we are trying to raise funds. We need to stop carpet bombing these kids in order to kill the cancer. funds are needed to discover a JDAM for childhood cancer.
His spirits are rock bottom right now, had to cancel his sisters birthday party.
who says the calender couldn't accidently slip back at a later date?