DeeLan

I could see stepmomma Anna coming back because it’s a connection to Tony. 

Kate tried to kill Chloe and went to Stephano for help.  He has the evidence that could put her away but told her if she married him he’d keep her safe.

Even though it was sort of a blackmail they do seem happy and perfect for each other.

My cousin adopted his granddaughter and she was issued a new birth certificate.  It had him listed as the father and no mother was listed since he was divorced at the time and adopted her on his own. 

Her original birth certificate has his daughter (bio mother) listed as mother and no father listed. 

My brother bought my mom and me a sewing machine when I was about 7.  My mom couldn’t sew a straight stitch if her life depended on it and I was too young to figure it out so he took the class that Singer offered on the machine.  A few weeks later he sat with a book on how to sew, a pattern and made something.  He had a friend who could sew and he taught him a lot of short cuts.  After that my brother would take several patterns and combine them into something you wanted.  He had a pair of pants that were his favorite but very worn so he cut them and used as a pattern.  A yard of material on sale and he’d have new pants.  He made himself a suit one year for New Years Eve.  I remember 2 dress he made me had a mandarin collar.  The dress was blue on top, white on the bottom with a white collar.  He made a blue coat with red lining and the coat had no collar.  The collar on the dress was the collar for the coat when it was buttoned. 

His friend who could sew was also a hairdresser.  One year a friend of their’s daughter got married and for her wedding gift the friend and my brother made her dress and the bridesmaid dresses.  I remember my brother sitting home hand beading this dress.  The friend also did the bride’s and her sister’s hair. 

He wouldn’t follow that as a career.  He felt he enjoyed it and if it became a job he wouldn’t enjoy it anymore. 

He also got a book in knitting and made me a sweater once. 

He was very artistic.  He took a pottery class and I have a few vases he made. 

He passed away in 1977 at age 39 (I was 20) of a massive heart attack and I often wonder if he would have made my dress when I got married.  I didn’t appreciate what he would do for me when he was alive but now I realize what he did and really miss his influence on my life.

When I was working at a hospital in Chicago they mostly semi-private and wards with 3+ beds with very few private rooms.  That was in the late 70’s. By the time I left (23 years later) most of the rooms were converted to private rooms and there were very few semi private with no wards at all.  The ER which use to be 1 huge room with curtains between beds was remodeled to private rooms on one side with some cubicles with curtains and the ICU’s that use to be 1 huge ward with curtains were now all private rooms but the wall and door leading to the central nurses desk was all glass so they could keep the doors closed and still see the patients.  When I started working at the hospital you had to get a pass and there were only 2 per patient.  If they were both in use someone had to come down with a pass to allow someone else up.  Several years later they got more lax with visitation and the only time they limited visitors was if the floor you were on was understaffed or there was something critical happening.  Even the ICU’s that had strict visiting hours posted didnt’ adhere to them unless there  was a patient that had visitors that were loud or obnoxious then they’d then enforce the visitation for all patients to avoid conflict with 1 family.

I moved to a small town in Alabama 7 years ago and have been in a small community hospital twice and I was in a room with 2 beds but I was the only patient.  In January I was in a larger hospital for a week and I had a private room with a couch and 2 chairs for visitors.  I requested my door be closed because I hated the noise and light from the hallway at night and my door was only opened if someone came in.  They immediately closed it when they left.   My husband and friends never had to check with anyone before coming up to my room and when I visited someone I never checked in with anyone.  Both hospitals down here do adhere to strict visitations in the ICU as far as hours but still didn’t ask to see a pass or put restrictions on how many people were visiting but you were only allowed 10 minutes per hour and the main doors to the ICU were kept locked until the hour then they’d unlock them and it was like cattle pouring into the unit, after 10 minutes everyone poured out again to sit in the waiting room until the next hour.

UPS should be there tomorrow with some of my excess for you and if you need more just let me know.

On a serious note.  Sounds like what they’re doing is a gastric bypass.  My husband had that in 2005 and they told him he’d loose 1/2 his excess weight from the surgery alone.  The weight does come off fast at first but he does have to be careful with what he eats.  He can’t eat too much at one sitting but if he spaces it out into many small meals he can eat almost as much in a day as he use to he just doesn’t want to anymore.   He has to be careful with sugar as too much of it causes a "dumping syndrome" which is where his glucose level rises fast then nose dives and he gets sick.  He says there’s a fine line between satisfied and STUFFED so he has to watch for that.  Also he can’t eat Sonic food anymore.  It has terrible gastric effects on him.  Must be in the way they prepare the food. 

His sister had the same surgery about 7 years before he did and she has no problem with Sonic but does have a problem with dairy. 

A friend of ours had gastric bypass for problems other than weight loss and she has problems with different foods so I guess it depends on the person and how their system handles certain things.

They all said they’d do it again as I guess anything is worth the not having the problems they had before the surgery so I’m sure you’ll be feeling better and relieved that the recurrent ulcers will be behind you.