Yep thats right 911 was called by me today, so let me tell you what happened:
Well Tiffany’s parents came in lasat night and one thing that Eddie (her father) and I always try to do when he comes up to Santa Fe is fishing. Well, we went to Cowles and then followed a one lane Forest road to the Penchuela Creek that feeds into the Pecos River. for a crude map go
Well it is amazingly gorgousHERE!
Check out the phone photos I took up there:
This one is of the mountians not great but decient for a phone camera:
This one is of a I really think 5 story tree. This picture does not do it justice, but it wil have to do:
and then finally you can see here the beaver ponds that I fished in here:
Ok back to the 911 story. Well I started fishing the beaver ponds and then Eddie said he wanted to go down stream to fish it, and I said OK. Well, I knew we had to be back at my house by 7:15 (about an hour away from where we were fishing) so around 5:30 I started heading back to the car. Well, I got to the car and Eddie was not there, so I then just packed up my fishing stuff and took down my fly rod and reel. Everything was packed away and so I just sat in the car waiting for my father-in-law. Well, after reading everything in the car, and listening to about 45 mins. of NPR, I decided that I would go looking for Papa Eddie. Well I took the trail back to the beaver ponds and looked for him there thinking that he probably went back to the popint that I last saw him… No luck.
So… then I went back to the car thinking he just took the stream to the car instead of the trail (which was higher up on the mtn, and you really could not see the stream from it). Got back to the car and nothing. Then I started getting a little worried. So I decided to tell one of the people camping to look for a guy that had a brigh orange Chicago Bears cap on and tell him I was coming, but that I was out looking for him. Well, this time I put my wading boots back on and decided to walk the river looking for him. Well I walked the river back to the beaver pond and still nothing. So I took the high trail back to te parking lot and still no Papa Eddie at the car!
Then I decided that I would tell the people caming that if he comes back that I left to go get the Forest service to look for him. So, after giving some backpackers a lift to the main road I found the nearest cabin and drove up in their drive way and asked if I could use thier phone to call the forest rangers to start a serach and rescue. The family in the home finanly allowed me to make the call and I called 911 and told them who I was (name, social number, home phone, etc…) and description of Eddie (name, what wearing, age, ect…) Then the State Police (who I was talking to) told me they would call me back after looking at a map and started calling the serach and rescue team members to deploy them to look for Eddie.
They told me they would call me back and so while I was waiting for them to call back I called Tiffany at home to tell her I lost her Dad and that the sercae and rescue were coming to find him…..She was not home…so I called her cell phone and got her. I told her crying my eyes out (actually just for the record it was just really hot and my eyes were sweating) that I lost her dad and that the search and rescure team were coming to lok for him. Then she told me that he was in Pecos, NM. @ a country store. Aparently he got lost and went all the way down the strewat to where it met the Pecos and then he caught a ride into Pecos (20 miles away from where we parked). Needless to say I was relieved and VERY tired. I called 911 back and told them to call off the search and rescue from my father-in-law and then I drove all the way to Pecos to find Tiffany and he dad in her car (she drove up from Santa Fe when she heard where he was). I hugged them both and we all went home to eat Chicken Marsalla (her Mom was making while everything was going down)
It was a very eventful day! And needless to say I think I will always take 2 2-way Radios and maybe a GPS Device with us the next time I go fishing with anyone! Man, this was very scary and I am so happy that Jesus listened to my prayers.
Well, take care everyone and good night! I am sorry I do not have an update for you on Jay, but I woke up too late this moring and got back home to late this evening to call him. Please keep up in your thoughts. Love yall!
Oh, I did catch 3 8 inch trout and one 14 inch in the beaver ponds and Eddie did not catch any, heh. God bless you all!
and then I saw THIS!!! Holy Cow! It has been a long time since I have actually tried to catch up to a car just to check it out. I am not one who looks at cars any more, because I am more of a small SUV guy like THIS and THIS and THIS. Unlike Tiffany is is in love with THIS car. Man only slightly better than her first love in THIS car.. ugg!
But then I thought to myself, what if someone gave me that Crossfire or I won it….and my first thought is woo hoo I would drive it once around tiown and sell it immediatly and pay off our credit cards and most of our student loans. Wow, yes that is how much I hate debt, heh.
Oh also today I saw THIS and it made me immediatly think of Jay! It really looks cool, but I wonder if the blade is as good as what it could be? Still very cool if you ask me, and they are trying to make themselves cool by selling bags and posters and such, heh.
(the Easter Egg today is for Blake and Reese (make sure Blake finds the egg Reese)because I actually heard them talking about this site one time and man talk about addictive, basic, but fun!)
(Oh I meant to tell everyone I did write this update yesterday, but for some reason after I cliked for it to be published (I went to bed immediatly and just let it update on it’s own) it apparently went to an error page and when I came down this morning and tried to go back to the page with all the information it was all gone so I had to re-type everything. Frustrating?….Yes very. But still fun.
Thanks for your continued prayers for Jay and our family we need them all. Love yall!
Ξ June 16th, 2004 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Now the Burkitts is in his central nervous system and in the Blood-Brain Barrier. The Dr.’s concluded this when they tested his peripheral nervous system and found nothing and after doing all their tests have shown that it could only be in one place. It looks like the cancer moved to a better (much better) hiding place when the chemo was being administered to Jay. (this explains why they did not detect it earlier because it was not there, but after the chemo started to attack it it ran to the nervous system and the blood/brain barrier. With the Lymphoma in the blood brain barrier it is very difficult to attack.
Jay put it this way:
Imagine a castle wall that can never be destroyed. Now, imagine the Lymphoma guys in on that wall attacking the good cancer destroying chemo on both sides of the wall. (inside and outside of the castle) Now, the Chemo can only shot the cancer when they come out of hiding from the wall. Now also realize that the Chemo guys can only attack with limited ammo, because the cancer guys on the wall will start to not even be effected by the chemo because they become immune to it after a while. That is what it is like with the cancer being in his central nervous system and in the blood brain barrier.
Now what we have to pray for is that the chemo will be very effective against the cancer hanging out in the barrier. (We will know the results to this by the end of the week.)
The good thing is that we know what is going on and why Jay has been in so much pain with the cancer on the central Nerve Root This is causing Jay to have tremendous pain from all over his body. (Jay said at one time his pain was so bad that he started to cry just thinking about it. There are no major tumors in the central nervous system, but they think it is still effecting the Nerve roots some how.
But the bad is that the cancer found a very good place to hide, and that you can only take so much chemo before the cancer gets wise to the treatment and then the chemo is not effective…So we have to pray that this chemo attacking from both sides of the wall is very effective.
So right now they are giving him (via a spinal tap to get into his spinal fluid)Methotrexate and Solu-Medrol (a steroid to help the pain. They should be starting up the CHOP again soon, but really want to see how effective the spinal tap drugs are effecting the Lymphoma that they are almost 100% positive in in the central nervous system.
All that to say.... Please continue praying for Jay and his wife, and all of us! Thank you for your prayers and love!
OH for all you Halo freaks out there I just Down loaded a program called xbconnect and if a game has a system link in it then you can play people online. It was lots of fun today playing people in Texas and Alabama in Halo online!!! If you have a high speed internet connection and Halo, and a router, then please contact me and lets play some Halo online!!! The program is free so just go get it!!!
Love you all, take care!
Fun Easter egg this post too!
Now, I know that most of you do not even know about High Definition stuff but in the near future you will. I read today that 1 million Digital TV’s were sold in just the first two months of this year and if you have not already chances are the next TV you buy will be High Definition, so you need to know about the next future of DVD’s. The first part of being educated is to go toTHIS website. You really need to go to the second page after you click the link, but this website is the best way I have seen to explain it to the public (those who are not Home Theater freaks like me). The second page shows VERY clearly the difference between the widescreen versions of DVD’s and VHS tapes as opposed to the Full-Screen versions.
If you still buy full screen movies after reading this article then you need a good Dr. 
Now, that you have been educated with Widescreen, you need to know about Digital TVs (otherwise known as High Definition TV’s) Let me see if I can get you a good site for the education of these TVs so you will be educated on this one too…. here you go!
Ok, now that you know why Widescreen, and al the different TVs that are out there (beware of anything thing that says EDTV). Then you really need to look into caring about the new High Definition DVDs that are coming out. There are two groups here (Blu-Ray, and HD-DVD) and they might be causing another format war. (NOT a good thing). I don’t know if any of you are old enough to remember, but there was a format war a long time ago with BetaMax, and VHS tapes way back when. We all know that VHS won, but the public was confused and it really hurt both formats, and just confused the consumer. A modern format war is the DVD-A (the A=audio) and the SACD (Super Audio CD) both of these were supposed to bring multi-speaker audio into the main stream and with both format the general public is just confused. They are both really cool and are amazing for Audio only discs, but the public is mostly clueless. This might be occurring with the new High Definition DVDs in the future.
Now the thing you all need to Know is that your current DVDs are not high definition. You really need to got to your local high end electronics store and ask them to show you High Definition to see what all the talk is about. (the slang term of HD is “window”…It is that good) Well a new thought is being brought up now and rumors are running rampant that the next Playstation video game console will be a Blu-Ray capable DVD player. This would make a huge segment of the population Blu-Ray supports and a very smart moved if you ask me. But, there is nothing stopping Microsoft to allow the DVD player in the next Xbox (look for it around Christmas 2005 or first of 2006) to play their encoding format (DC-9) (which BTW the HD-DVD people have allowed to be one of the different ways to be on HD-DVD’s.)
Well for those of you who could care less then just hunt for the Easter Egg and have fun, for those tech heads like me I hope you already know this stuff, but if not then consider your self educated.
And all of you better not even think about buying anything home electronic with out talking to me first…Never only talk to a sales person….Trust me they really probably do not know. heh (pray for them)
Jay update: well, we are waiting on test results to find out what is going on with the nervous system. Keep praying!
Well, I spend the entire day taking photos of the mountains beside Santa Fe for the church website. So nothing special today that I can think of. Oh well, I did take one picture with my new cell phone. The quality is not great but it still looks cool.
Flower explanation:
When my brother was in the Hospital the first time he was sick beyond belief (and probably drugged beyond belief) all he could talk about was how much he was worried about Tiffany not being in ministry. He told me that he just saw Tiffany as a flower in the desert, and that she was beautiful even in the desert! So, I took this picture with my new phone for my brother and my wife! This shows you how great of a guy Jay is….laying on a hospital bed totally out of it, and he is thinking of his brother’s wife’s welfare and not his own….
Love you Jay! Here you go…Tiffany in the desert....BTW: I totally agree with you!
P.S. She does have some spikes lower on down past the flower too, ha ha.
Thank yall for your prayers for Jay and God bless you!
Well, I don’t want to give the site away just yet, but find the Easter egg in this post and I hope that you can enjoy my humor. Tiffany did not get it, but at least I think you all are smart enough to “get it”.
!@#$%^&*())(*&^%$#@!^%$@(&!)
(I wonder where the Easter Egg is this time? heh Ok that was bad. I wish I could make a link with out the underline and making it a space so it would be invisible like HomeStar Runner.)
P.S. If anyone would like to help that would be great! Thanks!
Ok saw Chronicles of Riddick today and man one word, “HOLY COW!” (Ok 2 words.)
Yes, there were some cheesy CGI stuff in there, but good Sci-Fi story line and great fun! If you like Dune, The Fifth Element, or even Stargate then you will love this movie! Lots of battles and even a few Scripture references, but you have to be listening for them. I think I listen for scripture all over the place in movies, because I hope some day I can be able to use the clips in a sermon illustration. 
Did you like the Easter egg in the last post? Kind of cool huh? I thought so too.
Well have a good night.
BTW: are you tired of the TV guide costing too much money, wish your computer would remind you when your favorite show was on, how about know more info about a show 2 weeks away? Then the ester egg on this post will make you very happy!
GREAT NEWS!!! (Man, any more of this and I don’t know if I can take it.)
Jay and his wife talked to the Dr. Today and he said that he does not have MCL (Mantle Cell Lymphoma) but going back to the original diagnose of Burkitt’s Lymphoma. This is great news, because Burkitts is curable and has a good chance of being taken care of. (Unlike MCL that has no cure). His wife said that probably someone in the Dr.’s office got in trouble for telling Jay and her something that was wrong….So pray for that person too.
Man this is killing me. I mean I love roller coasters, but dang emotional ones kind of make me sick, heh.
Thanks for your prayers and keep’em coming. God bless yall!
Ξ June 11th, 2004 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, now the Dr.’s are telling my brother that is diagnoses has changed to a form of Lymphoma called MCL (Mantle Cell Lymphoma). This form is only in about 8% of all lymphoma patients in the US and Europe. So please keep your hearts and minds in prayer.
For some basic information you can go here.
Or, for an article that is better news of MCL you can check out an article talking about the new form of working on MCL here.
Thank you all for your prayers and support! This is not as good as the other news, but the new research and experiments going on it give you more hope!
May I have your attention!(<---Hint) Well, I wish I could tell you more but if you LISTEN real carefully to A video of one of the Easter Eggs I hid for you in the previous post then you will know what website to go to. You should go and have fun reading the words. Then try another website under the assumption that there must be more of them...at least three of them...only to find out that there are only two and maybe the "wotr" have decided to not pay the internet bill. Criptic, but lots of fun!
I hope you can find it. If not just leave comments and maybe I can give you hints.
Anyone know of other internet hunts like I have just given you? I love this stuff, and maybe we can share some with each other.
BTW: I need to give my props to a friend of mine who introduced me to blogs. Thor, thanks! Here is his blog to keep you entertained.
Also another blog that actually proved to me the power of blog is Alton Brown’s blog. He is a awesome food chief on Food Network with his show Good Eats. Kind of a comedy science food show, lots of fun and great food. Anyway here is his blog. Inspiring that a famous (well as famous as a Food TV guy can get) is showing you a picture of him in the hospital! That is great and inspiring. I knew right then the power of the blog and especially for people to see pastors for who they really are….Just like them. Thanks Alton, for being real and open!
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