Tishia Lee

My cousin has been diabetic since she was about 6 years old. She’s had so many complications from it and in her early 30’s she had a heart attack. She’s now in her 40’s and a miracle she’s even here. She’s had a kidney transplant several years ago and then a couple years ago she was put on the donor list for a pancreas (sp?).

My dad just called a bit ago to let me know that she got the call a couple hours ago that they had a pancreas for her! Once this transplant is completed she should no longer need to have the insulin pump attached to her stomach. She should no longer need insulin period.

I am so excited for her! I can’t wait to hear that they started the surgery and even more exciting will be getting the call that the surgery was a success….I don’t know if they’ll start the surgery tonight or if it will happen in the morning. I’m pretty sure they will do the surgery tonight. So now it’s just a waiting game…I hate waiting for news! Patience is definitely not one of my strong points

UPDATE 7/3/08

I just got off the phone with my Aunt and my cousin came out of surgery ok. They were taking her to her recovery room. There were no complications or anything so that was great to hear.

(Mary if you are reading this - yes this is my cousin that her and her husband adopted the little boy from Guatemala).

Ok excuse the language but I’m pissed! I haven’t blogged in awhile until yesterday. After all the shit that I’ve been going through I haven’t wanted to blog and even though blogging isn’t something ‘huge’ it’s just something in my life that I decided I needed to start making myself do again. And actually I guess to me blogging is huge…I’ve done it for a couple years and this blog has been a huge part of my life, as silly as that sounds.

So anyways….I had a really emotional night last night. Emotional in a good way I suppose. If that makes any sense. I had another one of the dreams that haunt me all too often these days but even after waking up from that I just told myself that today was a new day and things were going to be ok.

I open my email this morning to see that I had a new comment on my blog and I love comments so I was happy…until I opened the damn thing and read it. Not that I’m going to let some random jackass ruin my day but it certainly didn’t start my day very good! Look what this freaking idiot wrote to me…I mean seriously what the hell? What would even possess someone to write something like this on someone’s blog???:

id say your name doesnt fit you at all your a fat ass ugly chick not hott in the least bit i doubt youve ever been out on a date in your life and your probably really hard to love cos theres so much of you that needs lovin

sorry if i hurt your feelings but i just really needed to get my frustration out and i dont even know how i happened upon this site but you were just askin for it with your name and its meanings and then sayin how it fits your lard ass so well i couldnt resist sorry

His comment was in reference to my FridayFun - Does Your Name Fit You post. And it ticks me off that this ass doesn’t have a URL to hit site so I can go check it out. If you are going to bash someone then the least you could do is leave a URL to your site. What a dink.

What ever happened to the “if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all” that our mother’s taught us when we were so little? I know there used to be a button floating around that said no blog bullies and if I could find it I’d have another button to add but I don’t remember where I saw it at.

Edited to Add: Thanks Teressa for providing me with the link to Alice’s no blog bullies button!

Wow I haven’t posted since June 21st! That’s just crazy seems how I’m addicted to blogging and post all the time, sometimes more than once a day. As most of you know (if you’ve been following along with me over the last couple weeks) there was some major drama here in my apartment complex and it kind of did a number on me.

I’m slowly but surely starting to feel like my old self again. I still have a long way to go and a lot of things to deal with but the past couple days I’ve felt pretty good. That could possibly have something to do with the fact that my man is back in a location where he can access Instant Messenger It’s so nice having him back around…it’s been soooooooo looooooooong since I’ve been able to talk to him via IM. There’s just something about being able to talk to him that makes me feel ’safe’ and like everything is going to be ok…if that makes any sense.

I canceled my counseling appt that was scheduled for last Thursday….don’t ask, it was a dumb move on my part and I’ve been chewed out about it enough by my man. As hard as it was to admit, everything he was saying was right. Doesn’t it stink when men are right about things?

So anyways…I figured I better pop in and give an update.

This article just goes to prove that we live in a society full of sue happy people. Remember the lady that sued McDonald’s because she spilled coffee on her lap? Yeah I remember laughing at that story…not that it’s funny at all that she was burned but the fact that someone would think of suing over that is crazy.

I didn’t think that I’d ever hear of a lawsuit that would top the McDonald’s one but holy Toledo this chic suing Victoria’s Secret for a faulty thong…is ludicrous!!!! I can’t stop laughing. I don’t find it funny that her eye was injured due to the decorative heart that flew off (it might of been a staple I don’t remember) but the fact that she’s turning it into a lawsuit is hilarious.

I couldn’t stop giggling when I read the article but the video made me laugh even harder. I mean seriously…come on people! Is this for real? I just can’t even believe it. And where in the world did she find this lawyer that was willing to even take on a case like this? Good grief! The lawyer says it’s not about the money, it’s about the manufacturer making defective merchandise…oh puuuuuuuhlease! Give me a break. During the interview the lawyer was asked how much they were suing for and he wouldn’t say. He did say something about it being a certain kind of lawsuit and it’s over $25,000.00. For a thong that broke? I’m just appalled that someone would sue over this and not to mention the fact it happened over a year ago.

What are your thoughts about all this?

My dad called me Monday night and offered to loan me the money to get my car fixed (that isn’t my car to the left but it is the same exact kind - same year, etc and even the same color). I have a hard time accepting help so I couldn’t say yes right away. Not to mention the fact that I wasn’t keen on the idea of borrowing money! My plan was to just wait until I had the money saved up ($400.00) to get it fixed but at the rate my finances are going that would of taken several months to get to that point, as sad as that is.

It took me until sometime Tuesday afternoon before I was able to admit that I needed to take my dad up on his offer. The fact that I’m going to owe him more money (coincidentally this car he’s loaning money to me to get fixed he also loaned me $300 last year when I was $300 short of the $1200 the guy was selling it for) is driving me insane and just adds to my financial stresses/worries. But he also told me that if it takes a couple years to pay it off that’s ok too…LOL.

So my car is getting fixed tomorrow. It’s funny because once I made the decision to allow my dad to help I was annoyed the garage couldn’t get me in right then and there! lol But 2 more days with out a car wasn’t really all that big of a deal. I should have it back by noon tomorrow (I’m hoping) then I’ll have wheels to drive to my appointment tomorrow afternoon.

Yeah! Thanks dad.