Monday, November 10, 2008

Yay squared

I got a new job ...

I'm sooooooo psyched!

http://www.msistone.com/

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Exxon Mobil posts biggest US quarterly profit ever

Monday, October 27, 2008

Another Big Day!

Matthew is 15!!!

We had milkshakes at Cheeburger! Cheeburger!

Yummy!!!!

Friday, October 24, 2008

Wow! I can hardly believe it!
The little baby I held not-so-long ago is now a man!
The gift from his Dad and I will be a class on gun-safety
with some time on the gun range after that.
His brothers are quite jealous!

We had dinner at Outback Steak House to celebrate!

There will be lots of changes in the coming year, I am certain ...
but I am very pleased and blessed that he isn't racing out the door yet!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

More Retail Woes -

Ok ... so my frustration with my employer finally boiled and I quit my position and said I want to work part-time.

Blah!

Sunday, October 5, 2008

This terrifies me

To many people, Organ Donation is not even questioned. They check the box on their driver's license and never really think about it.

Many years ago I was reading some historical information about how doctor's began studying this on injured people who were still breathing (long before the modern life saving devices we have.) I really struggle on this issue because I feel there is something inherently wrong with stopping someone's heart so they can be declared dead ... for organ retrieval.

I honestly pray that I'm never in a position with my children where we are hoping for an organ transplant because I'm not certain I'm up to the task.

This article details some of the horrific thoughts I have about Organ Transplants.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100301974.html

The Doctors Who Are Redefining Life and Death

By William Saletan

Sunday, October 5, 2008; Page B02

Think being the next president would be a brutal job? Imagine being a transplant surgeon. You can't tell the parents of a dying kid when to pull the plug, but you have to be there, ready, the minute he expires. You have to wait until he's dead, but not so long that his organs become useless. You can give him drugs to keep his organs healthy, but you mustn't technically revive him. And you can't remove and restart his heart until it's been declared kaput.

Pick up a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, and you'll see the far edge of this tortured world. In the journal, doctors at Children's Hospital in Denver describe how they removed hearts from infants 75 seconds after they stopped. The infants were declared dead of heart failure, even as their hearts, in new bodies, resumed ticking.