Well its me again. I had a temporary brain freeze( that happens often) so I haven't blogged or typed, or anything for that matter in the last month, at least not that I can remember.
Grandma (Audrey) is doing well. She continues with her meds and the general Chemo treatments once a month. She seems to be managing at home well. She is lonely and would like calls and visits. She doesn't remember things very well, but if that required being put in a home I would be right next to my sister in law Cheri...(so she tells me.) Anyway...
My life in the past few months has been a real ride. I had a hysterectomy last year or better put... A Dr. of a slight acquaintance , cuts you open and rids you of your female innards. You end up..Ha Ha .. get it End UP... anyway I had a scar across my stomach that would put any mobster to shame. Anyway, after healing from that fun little visit to the "Chop shop", this past month at about 6am I had to call my trusty pal in crime...( my sister in law Cheri), to drive me to the hospital...Extreme pain from the kidney to the again female region... There should be a discount for Pain and suffering in Departments of the body. If that were true, I would vote to be a guy !!! Anyway I had kidney stones of Dinosaur proportion... Not surprising considering my age... but one was in the stuck position... I have said on more that one occasion that I have two speeds, mosey and stop. Anyway, this one was in the stop position between the kidney and the bladder. I needed surgery with yet another Dr. of slight acquaintance. I went to Spokane to Sacred Heart Med Center and they proceeded to attempt to break the stone up with a laser. My heart would not take it and began to protest.... I would have too had I been awake, but they had to then quickly push the stone back up in the kidney and install yet another tube from my kidney to my bladder. First they take everything out, and then end up having to put new parts in. The Hospital had not had their fun yet so they then tried to establish why my heart decided to protest the operation. What did they expect? After having 5 babies, a hysterectomy, I have had my feet in more stirrups than Roy Rogers. And He didn't have to have his butt in the air for strangers to enjoy. Do the words Grab Bag seem appropriate? Anyway they subjected my heart to a stress test. In my house that is waking up every morning. They took one look at my feeble attempts and walking and after they stopped laughing, they decided drugs were the way to go... I agreed... I thought ...Ahah, another trip to la la land... Wrong!!!.. They inject you with Nuclear waste or some such, to inflate your heart valves and speed up your heart. If I had know that was what was required, I would have asked to see the menu to the Cheesecake Factory Restaurant. Anyway, after my heart exploded, or at least it felt like it did, they scanned it and sent me home once again with an " Alls clear" to return to the Chop shop. 2 weeks and several pain medications later, I went back to Sacred Heart to once again share my charms with the world and several new nurses. They did break the stone up and took out the tube... What part, I wonder, will need to be replaced next...hummm?
Anyway, I am for now, stirrup free and looking forward to keeping both feet firmly planted on Terra firma. I hope this all makes sense to you all.

Hope to send photos of the Stoker Family Free-for-all Reunion. Actually, Daryl and I are going to meet all the kids and grand kids in Salt Lake City this year (next week) instead of the annual fishing trip. I vote to return to fishing. It may be more boring but I have to walk less, can breath better, and thus can talk more. Anyway, we will from our various stations across this great northwest (except for Ashley and Scott) They live in hell, oops I mean Arizona. Same difference... temperature wise that is. Anyway, we are all going to decend on Salt Lake C.. This May cause enough of an uproar, the second coming will be forced into effect.
To say the least, it will be a new version of Stokers gone wild. Yes, this should prove to be a new amusement site in that great city. 14 adults of varying stages of ages plus 12 and1/2 kids the 1/2 being provided by Ashley, as they make their way to the historical sites, Dinosaur museums , Daryl and I can give comment on our friends, and then to the Zoo. Natosha (our neice) and her husband and rug rats will join us. We intend to swim... and with that my friends, we will have the greatest gathering of mayonnaise legs and white flesh that the water has seen since the great white shark migration. Get out the Sun glasses!!! Daryl and I will swim late at night as not to frighten the children. Plus, we don't want to empty the pool for everyone else. The last time Big D and I went into the water, they started the Jaws theme on the intercom. People fled the hotel, and we were asked to vacate the pool so they could fill it up again for morning. Not really. Anyhow, I will get major written instructions to how to upload or down load or post or one of those things of our great Stoker reunion pictures and dialog on the WWW./ Mind you the censors will probably screen the two photos of the Walrus bodies swimming late at night, but that will most likely be a blessing. Any hoooo. Have a great week and hope you all can interpret insanity writing as it is the only excuse I have... Love ya lots,,,, write me. Maryellen