Redoubt Volcano in Alaska

Redoubt is about 65 miles (as the crow flies) from Homer Alaska.

It has been active for a few months, threatening to blow but it's calm at this time.
There is a web site you can go to and see live video of the area.

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.php

I just thought you might be interested. not to alarm anyone.

Surgery date set

Paul's cardiac surgeon called today and set the date for Wednesday, March 11th. (That is Kelsey's birthday)

He checks in at 6am and the surgery is 9am. It will take 4 to 6 hours depending on how it goes.

Well, that's it. You prefer it short and to the point don't you?

Any questions? You can comment below and Blogspot sends me an e-mail or you can e-mail me direct...OR... you can call me if you know my cell phone number. (If you know it then you are probably a friend and I'd welcome the call)

A little give-away with a catch!

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1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year. {might be a little while}
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5.I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch?
Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!*Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!*

This sounds like a fun "Pay it Forward" kind of chain letter. I'm game and playing, how about you?

Love,
Karen

My latest Hand Knit Tams

I couldn't take a picture of the back but that would have been good.

Did I forget to mention that I had a couple of blemishes burned off my face. I got the call from the lab that there is NO cancer, Hooray!!!

The Heart Surgeon

We had the visit today with the heart surgeon. He made it very clear that this is a difficult surgery for the patient and the doctor. The odds are not good either.

Paul has no other choices and the doctors agree.

We are still waiting for the date for the surgery, we should hear today or tomorrow.

Paul and I feel really good about the doctor. We both like him and he comes highly recommended by the nurses at the hospital too.

More later as we know it.

Finally making progress

Well the angiogram is finished and the decision is final. Paul needs another bypass surgery and the surgeon wants to do 4 or 5 bypasses.
Next step is see the new surgeon at his office and schedule the surgery.
Well, that was short and to the point, any questions?

Paul's next step

Paul had his treadmill stress test yesterday.
The doctor said he was surprised at how bad the circulation was in the heart. He said there are 3 areas of the heart that are suffering.

(Amazing coincidence that 3 of the 4 bypasses were closed off by the laser to stop the bleeding and 3 areas of the heart are having low blood flow.)

The next step is to have an angiogram to map the heart circulation so the heart surgeon knows where to go. He needs to know what's viable before he starts putting in new bypasses.

We're finally getting to the nitty-gritty. This should have been fixed with the first bypass surgery. Thankfully, they're giving us hope again.