Good news tidbits...

[jay]

While I'm scrambling to finish the cover forms for two proposals... a pleasant interruption from my parents.

- My father just got word that he's been accepted into an experimental study treatment program for his usually-terminal IPF lung condition, after a year of trying :D

- My mother had her gallbladder removed last Friday (didn't tell her kids or anyone, as usual... sigh) but is recovering well, without the complications that cyan_blue has had to experience, and

- the football team of one of my universities (Georgia Tech) will be playing in a minor bowl game here in the SF Bay area (Emerald Bowl ?) on 12/29. I'll be back and intend to go. If anyone else local wants to tailgate, let me know...

Comments

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Those are good bits of news. And yay for no complications on the surgery!

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

That's all good news!

And Dan's family does the same thing about notifying us when there's health stuff. His sister almost lost an eye from a run in with a tree, and we didn't know about it for months, when we were in the surgery waiting area when his dad fell off a 10 foot ladder and had to have his ankle/foot operated on (that's what led to him having to have it amputated last year). And we live all of 20 miles away from them.

Families, can't live with them, can't shoot them ;-)

*hugs*

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Drives me nuts, at times... once, she was in the hospital for a week, and I only found out months later.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhh!!!! (about your mom)

I'm glad your Dad got into the program. Is that the one at Emory?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

No, it's a treatment program (Emory was just a study), based in Connecticut (but locally adminstered, so not a travel requirement).

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Yay for the good news about your folks. I am sure that this will make Christmas more pleasant.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

More upbeat... there's still my sister-in-law's brain implant and chemotherapy, but that should be started soon.

[sisterfish125.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow...that is good news for you and your parents!

And, yes...it is the Emerald Bowl that GA Tech is going to. I thought of you when they announced it on Monday. Did you hear that they are still ranked in the top 25? (I think they're 24, but that's still top 25!!)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grin) I hadn't heard... I didn't even know about the Tech-Georgia result until I saw the score two days later in an old newspaper. It is harder to keep up, here...

[sisterfish125.livejournal.com]

Uh, I still don't know about the Tech-UGa result...and I do live in Georgia! (I don't follow football much though)

[katster.livejournal.com]

My Bears are in Vegas for their minor bowl. If they'd gone to the Emerald, I'd have been there no questions asked, but since then I kinda earmarked the money for other things.

If I were still living in the Bay Area as opposed to Sactown, I'd be tempted to go make an afternoon of it and root for Tech with ya. :) But since I'm not, I'll just be there in spirit. G'luck to your team. :)

-kat

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Is the Emerald held at UCB? Can't be at Stanford, as they've just demolished their stadium...

Good luck to your Bears! :)

[katster.livejournal.com]

It's actually in San Francisco. They convert Pac Bell Park to a football field just for the bowl. (And yeah, I can't believe Stanford's doing that.)

(Emerald was originally supposed to be MWC 2 or 3 against Pac-10 6, but the Pac only qualified five teams this year, so that's how Tech ended up there.)

Thanks for the luck-wishing. We're actually playing BYU, who are the rivals of the team that's playing yours, so it should be fun. (Mormons vs. Hippies, in Sin City. This amuses me.)

-kat

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Heh. The Mormons vs. Hippies angle is amusing. Tie-dye vs. white shirts and neckties... University Ave. vs. the Utah desert... chai latte vs. Ovaltine and milk...

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

It's always good to hear good news for good people.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Best wishes fore your family.

Gall Bladder

[twoglass.livejournal.com]

Dearest, what would have done? Worry?? Don't need anything else on your plate. If it had been serious or course you whould been told.

Love mom

Re: Gall Bladder

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

If they'd amputated a limb, you *might* have told me... LOL. I think our definitions of "serious" vary considerably...