M.D. Anderson Hosp. follow-up on my leg tumor tomorrow

Lucy · Post by **Lucy** » Mon May 30, 2005 5:47 pm

With the tornado and all, I forgot that I've got that silly leg thing to follow up on tomorrow. Sis will stay with Mom while I go do Ultrasound at 9AM and doc visit is scheduled for 11 AM only he's out of town, so told em it's perfectly fine with me if I just see the nurse practitioner.

Reason for sayin' it's silly, is that this thing, removed in April of 02, would be totally observable, should it recur, as it's right on the top of the bony part of my leg, not too far above the ankle. I can see and feel that it's not there, and know perfectly well that's never GUNNA be there, so this is a waste of time and resources.

I need to be here handling the tree situation from the tornado, and maybe the power company people, etc. At least usually, if I get right on through with ultrasound, I can usually just "get in line" at the reconstruction surgeon's clinic, and they'll see me in no time. Heck, they already know from the ultrasound it's ok, and I could tell em WITHOUT the ultrasound! Ha!

Poor neighbor I mentioned who was just diagnosed (finally) with pancreatic cancer has his first appointment there at 2 PM tomorrow.
Poor family, but at least they were all here to help with the tornado -- good thing it was a holiday when all this damage happened!

Drove around to follow the path of the tornado, and it was very definite.
Gas station in it's path had a pump pulled up, and worst housing type damage was to about 16 to 18 units of an apartment complex right behind the gas station. News media have been parked there all day, I heard. Trees directly across from them and in path of the tornado were snapped in two, just like ours, and originally heard that they'd been blown into the roof of those apartments -- no sure WHAT actually caused the roof to cave in.
Apartments are trying to move all these displaced residents to other unoccupied units. Half of the street on that side of the bayou had to be blocked off so the tree guys could remove all the debre off that apartment, and whatever else they were attempting to do. Just lucky that it's not rained as yet, but we've been hearing little storms in the not too distant areas from here. Hope they've got those "open" apartment units covered and well protected from future rain.

We've become quite the tourist attraction around here -- cars constantly rubbernecking the houses, so when we're out front we just wave, and they wave back.

Gotta go do something constructive.
Yours, Luce

mjbonsais · Post by **mjbonsais** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:01 pm

Bad weather! Don't remind me, hurricane season begins June 1st here in South Florida!!!

Please take care and I send you prayers,

Mary Jo

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:16 pm

Aaaahhhh, Mary Jo,
Did you have to remind me???

We have a manufactured home in a 55+ community in Vero Beach, Fl. Amazingly, we came through the 2 hurricanes last year without too much damage so our home is OK now. We had work to do but it's OK.

Did your home get damaged last year?

Love, Shirley

mjbonsais · Post by **mjbonsais** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:25 pm

Hi Shirley,

Sorry 4 de reminder!

Well, we were very fortuanate here in Broward last year considering how the mighty four reared their butts at us!!!! lol Whirlwinds~ we had some wind with branches but were lucky real lucky.
We worry about the fish in our pond as it's not a spring fed one but manmade and needs a pump for 02, without this the koi would surely die.
We have a generator but wish we had a separate one just for them. Guess hubby says what we have will suffice-hopefully, he's right.
I have good friends that live in Stuart in a mobil home and there's was ok but some are still waiting for repairs!!! HOlY SMOKES!!! "Anchor me down so I don't blow away again" they say!
Stay safe now ya hear?

Love

MJ

Mars · Post by **Mars** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:32 pm

Luce,

Keep us posted on the results of the ultrasound, K?

Hope your weather stays good!

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:34 pm

Here's hoping neither of us has to worry this year. Florida really got hit HARD so I think they/we deserve a break. We'll be down there in the fall.
Love, Shirley

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:45 pm

Luce,

I hope all goes smoothly tomorrow. I'm sure you're correct, but better to be safe than sorry.

Love,

Polly

Babci · Post by **Babci** » Mon May 30, 2005 7:24 pm

Hey twin

I will also be thinking of you & sending you loving light. Sorry for the storm & resulting problems. Just what you needed!! Love & light, Rita

annie oakley · Post by **annie oakley** » Mon May 30, 2005 8:23 pm

Good Luck to all of you where there is bad weather. We were under a tornado warning yesterday afternoon. Stay safe and material things can be replaced but not my personal friends LKove Oma

Lucy · Post by **Lucy** » Mon May 30, 2005 9:41 pm

I remember Alicia back in the 80's -- went straight through downtown Houston. I was upstairs in an apt style condo. That was a doozy since it was a direct hit. Being up high like that, the green lightning was visible all around, and you know when you see that that the sky is FULL of the tornados that come with hurricanes. Fortunately, most tornados of any kind stay in the air and never bother anyone.

Tornados in Houston are much smaller than the ones you see further north in Tornado Alley, and there are seldom fatalities, but when you see big OLD trees have limbs snap in two like they were nothing, welp, it certainly does make you appreciate the force of nature. Also, makes me glad that I don't LIVE in Tornado Alley! Did live in SW Ft.Worth for a while, and spent two weeks in Wichita Falls, Tx. in the Panhandle of Tx.

That's where a big tornado hit the shopping centers and did all that damage a while back. Also, right after Sheppard Air Force Base's new hospital was completed back in the late 70's, a tornado LEVELLED the old one, but fortunately it wasn't occupied and I don't think anyone was hurt that time.

Panhandle may as well be in Okla for all of those it has compared to other places.

Roni, don't forget about that big tornado that wiped out lots of that little town not too far from Austin.

Waco had a killer one back in the 50's which killed an older friend of mine's step-father.

A house where I used to visit in Moore, Okla had been purchased from my friend by the football coach there in Moore (Okla, City really) when those killer tornados hit. It leveled EVERYTHING around the school house, including this house -- to think that I'd actually slept in that house on two trips there, and at least one of the trips was in MAY of all things. Other one was probably about the same time of year.

At that same time, a future boss of mine's father was killed in Del City (Okla City area where they only had one of them of that bunch). He was very elderly and his wife was caring for him in their house as he had pretty bad Alzheimers. A Hondo mini-van type thing of the neighbors landed on top of him in the house. The mother was unharmed as apparently a chest of some kind had protected her -- perhaps it was holding the vehicle up or something and off of her. Still, she lost her entire house with all the belongings and memories and had to endure the trauma of seeing her husband killed like that.

Wow, what a terrible thing to be reminded of.

Better get off here and hit the hey.
Nite. Yours, Luce

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M.D. Anderson Hosp. follow-up on my leg tumor tomorrow

M.D. Anderson Hosp. follow-up on my leg tumor tomorrow

Good Luck Luce

Luce

Thanks everyone!