Hi Ken, So glad to see you are alive and well. We have been wondering about you......... I talked to Donnie two Saturdays ago for a few minutes. He had company from Texas and was heading out the door. He finished the two weeks of radiation but he said it didn't help the pain. He has been feelling really bad and his legs hurt all the time. He is finally in his house and is very glad to be out of the motor home. He doesn't have many good days and he sleeps very little. Retha keeps a close eye on him and stays with him a lot at night. I don't think he is very stable on his feet. Sorry I don't have more information. Take care. Donna Kay On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Ken Jackson <[email protected]>wrote: > Ed, > > Yeah, me too. The weather here in the last week or two has been pure > fall-like. Can't wait for the pumpkins and Halloween decorations to come > out > so that we can feel Fall is finally here. Hasn't been too bad a summer here > in middle Tennessee, but not a lot of rain once Summer got to going good. > (What do the call that - when you write or say several words in a row that > start with the same letter)? ) Would it be alliteration? Oh, well. No, > Peggy, I'm not drinking anything but water.... > > Ed - please done call me "ole Ken". Ha ha ha ha ha. I know I am, so don't > rub it in.. Just kidding... > > Oh, you ladies will love this (and probably a few of the guys, too. I Now > Have To Wear Support Hose. That dang fluid build up has me looking like I > have piano legs (remember when they said that Hillary Clinton had piano > legs > - Ha. They are made exactly like women's nylons, feel pretty much the > same, > too. I had a sort of leg wound on my right leg, so was sent to a wound > specialist. They wrapped my legs in a yucky bandage like wrap that felt > cold, then put on white support hose over it. I had to keep that on, > replacing the bandage weekly. The nufse told me pan-bath only. Oooooh. > After > about 3 weeks, I got tired of not having a shower, so I quit going to the > wound center and went to Wal-Mart and bought a pair of support hose without > the toe ends. Not good. Went back and got the whole stockings that cover > your foot and up to your knees. Did you know they even make them in > thigh-highs, and full shaped like panty hose??? They were totally white, > though, so I opted for the sheer nude color stocking kind. The first pair I > got were the smallest, tightest kind and I almost cut off the circulation > in > my legs - my toes were turning blue! So I got rid of them and got like > medium compression. I hate to go in public with them on during the heat > when > I wear short pants out. You should see the kids staring at me. Not only am > I > wearing those stupid-looking support hose, but I am also driving a mart > cart (believe it or not you CAN forget how to drive.....) with a cane > sticking out of the basket. I try to avoid the kids, but somehow just run > into them. Sometimes to get back at the starers, I talk crazy to myself, > too. I'll talk this gibberish and act retarded (ok, Peggy don't say a > word...), getting just as close to them as I can. They usually scatter > pretty fast. I can be evil when I want to be - hee hee hee. > > I am so glad to be walking better. The therapy really helped me. I was > total dead weight when I came home from the hospital last July (2010). It > has taken a lot of work to get back to where I am. Still have a long way to > go. I must give to glory to God - he still has a purpose for me. Don't know > what it is yet, but I know he's not exactly finished with me here on Earth. > By all accounts I should be singing and worshipping Him in His Presence > right now. May come soon, who knows? I just tell myself "be ready". > > I hate to segue into this, but can someone please give me an update on Don? > I am sorry about not coming to the Hoedown 2011. I really thought it had > been called off, then here I hear that Don made an appearance at it, even > though I'm sure it took all he could summon up to be there even for a > while. If any one does talk, hear from him, please tell him I asked about > him and his health, and that I pray that he will beat the disease that has > come upon him. God can do miracles in all our lives, you know. > > I love you all - please tell me what I've missed this past year. Peggy told > you about losing 27 years of genealogy research because of my stupidity. > Well,, I found some software that will unerase lost files and was able to > recover an old backup from 2006. Too bad, I'll just have to try to remember > what's in my main file that would have been my real file if I hadn't > formatted the drive and can't get it back..... of all people to pull a > stunt > like that. Maybe I am getting the big "A". after all. Sometimes I feel > like > it - I can't remember anything like I used to. Someone recently gently > "reminded" me that I ain't 20 years old anymore. > > Can anyone relate to that??? > > Love you all, dear cousins! > > Ken > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Donna Kay Cross Griffin

Thanks Donna for letting us know about Donnie.    Someone told me to eat a banana before you go to bed, & that would help you sleep.  After I get to sleep, I wake up with it in my throat. No more for me.   Since Donnie & Ken are not so stable on their feet, that would be something to watch in Wal Mart. Donnie you know I kidding, because of Ken.  I really shouldn't say anything since I bursted the floor in Grenada.  So I guess I'm the third party. Ennie, minnie & mo. I am 68.  Glad I didn't have a dress on that day, or break a bone.   I would have been a bad patience.   Glad to see Ken can still type on his comp.  Now maybe he will get something started (please not about me).   Peggy From: Donna Kay <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:26 AM Subject: Re: [PTREE] Here I Is.... Hi Ken, So glad to see you are alive and well.  We have been wondering about you.........  I talked to Donnie two Saturdays ago for a few minutes.  He had company from Texas and was heading out the door.  He finished the two weeks of radiation but he said it didn't help the pain.  He has been feelling really bad and his legs hurt all the time.  He is finally in his house and is very glad to be out of the motor home.  He doesn't have many good days and he sleeps very little.  Retha keeps a close eye on him and stays with him a lot at night.  I don't think he is very stable on his feet.  Sorry I don't have more information.  Take care. Donna Kay On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Ken Jackson <[email protected]>wrote: > Ed, > > Yeah, me too. The weather here in the last week or two has been pure > fall-like. Can't wait for the pumpkins and Halloween decorations to come > out > so that we can feel Fall is finally here. Hasn't been too bad a summer here > in middle Tennessee, but not a lot of rain once Summer got to going good. > (What do the call that - when you write or say several words in a row that > start with the same letter)? ) Would it be alliteration? Oh, well. No, > Peggy, I'm not drinking anything but water.... > > Ed - please done call me "ole Ken". Ha ha ha ha ha. I know I am, so don't > rub it in.. Just kidding... > > Oh, you ladies will love this (and probably a few of the guys, too. I Now > Have To Wear Support Hose. That dang fluid build up has me looking like I > have piano legs (remember when they said that Hillary Clinton had piano > legs > - Ha. They  are made exactly like women's nylons, feel pretty much the > same, > too. I had a sort of leg wound on my right leg, so was sent to a wound > specialist. They wrapped my legs in a yucky bandage like wrap that felt > cold, then put on white support hose over it. I had to keep that on, > replacing the bandage weekly. The nufse told me pan-bath only. Oooooh. > After > about 3 weeks, I got tired of not having a shower, so I quit going to the > wound center and went to Wal-Mart and bought a pair of support hose without > the toe ends. Not good. Went back and got the whole stockings that cover > your foot and up to your knees. Did you know they even make them in > thigh-highs, and full shaped like panty hose??? They were totally white, > though, so I opted for the sheer nude color stocking kind. The first pair I > got were the smallest, tightest kind and I almost cut off the circulation > in > my legs - my toes were turning blue! So I got rid of them and got like > medium compression. I hate to go in public with them on during the heat > when > I wear short pants out. You should see the kids staring at me. Not only am > I > wearing those stupid-looking support hose, but I am also driving a mart > cart (believe it or not you CAN forget how to drive.....) with a cane > sticking out of the basket. I try to avoid the kids, but somehow just run > into them. Sometimes to get back at the starers,  I talk crazy to myself, > too. I'll talk this gibberish and act retarded (ok, Peggy don't say a > word...), getting  just as close to them as I can. They usually scatter > pretty fast. I can be evil when I want to be - hee hee hee. > > I am so glad to be walking better. The therapy really helped me. I was > total dead weight when I came home from the hospital last July (2010). It > has taken a lot of work to get back to where I am. Still have a long way to > go. I must give to glory to God - he still has a purpose for me. Don't know > what it is yet, but I know he's not exactly finished with me here on Earth. > By all accounts I should be singing and worshipping Him in His Presence > right now. May come soon, who knows? I just tell myself "be ready". > > I hate to segue into this, but can someone please give me an update on Don? > I am sorry about not coming to the Hoedown 2011. I really thought it had > been called off, then here I hear that Don made an appearance at it, even > though  I'm sure it took all he could summon up to be there even for a > while. If any one does talk, hear from him, please tell him I asked about > him and his health, and that I pray that he will beat the disease that has > come upon him. God can do miracles in all our lives, you know. > > I love you all - please tell me what I've missed this past year. Peggy told > you about losing 27 years of genealogy research because of my stupidity. > Well,, I found some software that will unerase lost files and was able to > recover an old backup from 2006. Too bad, I'll just have to try to remember > what's in my main file that would have been my real file if I hadn't > formatted the drive and can't get it back..... of all people to pull a > stunt > like that. Maybe I am getting the big "A". after all.  Sometimes I feel > like > it - I can't remember anything like I used to. Someone recently gently > "reminded" me that I ain't 20 years old anymore. > > Can anyone relate to that??? > > Love you all, dear cousins! > > Ken > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Donna Kay Cross Griffin ------------------------------- Visit the Palmertree Family History website at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message