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At least the Internet version of the radio?

Well, at least on our show?

Watch the video and then do your part!



Thanks!

~ Glenn

Every picture tells a story

So I've slacked and not updated in a couple days...I have an excuse! (signed: Epstein's mom)

Michelle and I are fortunate enough to have some wonderful friends and neighbors. One in particular is gracious enough to invite us for an over night stay at a cabin owned by the company he works for.

This past Saturday we went with four other couples and spent the day riding quads, and drinking and playing cards, and eating!

Here are some pictures of the adventure!

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First thing we found out was the water line tot he cabin had frozen! The guys there spent all morning working on it and got everything up and running by 1pm!

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No, they are not playing hide and seek! LOL! Lisa (our neighbor) and Michelle are watching Lisa's dog dig for moles and are scared to death that she might actually pull one out of the ground!

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It was more than a little chilly riding of the quads but most people dressed appropriately! As shown here by my sister-in-law Michelle.

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And my brother-in-law Jim.

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The rides might be a lot quicker if everyone did stop for beverage breaks so often!

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See what I mean? LOL

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This is one of the beautiful sights along the quad trails. Oh, and the Spark can was the drink of choice this past weekend. 7% alcohol with ginseng AND caffeine!

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I TOLD you it was cold!

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Now SOMETIMES people don't do the smartest things! Mark, our neighbor, told us not to run through the puddle because it was too deep. Then drove into it because someone else said they were going to!

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He kicked up a little mud trying to get out...which he did with some help from a couple of the guys.

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Another wonderful sight. A natural pond that you can actually see bubbling up from an underground spring!

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It was also my brother-in-law's birthday so there was some celebrating going on!

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Then there were card games too!

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The next day we woke up to a few inches of freshly fallen snow! It was great riding around in that!

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Even if it was COLDER than the day before!

So like I said...I had a good excuse to not be blogging! LOL!

Again, we had a wonderful relaxing time and I hope to do it again sometime.

~ Glenn

Baby, Baby

Yesterday was our daughter's 11th birthday!

Here is her story:

We had been married for just under a year when we found out my wife was pregnant. She had taken a test but didn't want to say anything to me until she was sure so she took another...and another. Three tests later we were pretty sure!

Our families were elated! This would be the first grandchild for both sides and we knew we were going to a a spoiled brat!

Everything went as you would expect and we were enjoying getting ready for our first child.

Unfortunately my wife started having some problems with her blood pressure. We learned this was due to pre-eclampsia (which reared its ugly head with our second child also).

With no history to go by the doctors were cautious, but optimistic.

However at 5 month my wife was put on bed rest. A couple weeks later she was in the hospital and and week after that I got the call.

I was working for a rental company at the time and my wife called from her room to tell me that they wanted to transfer her to another hospital because the baby seemed sluggish.

After calming her down I left to make my deliveries for the day with the intention of going Pittsburgh to see her that evening.

I had not even made it to my first stop when my mobile phone rang and a doctor on the other end was telling me that baby's heart rate was low and they were going to do an emergency c-section and they would NOT be waiting for me to get there!

On my way back to the store to get my car my parents called to inform me they were going to visit my wife. I informed THEM that she would not be in her room as they were taking the baby now!

I had never been to Magee's but made great time on the trip!

I found my parents in the waiting room and my dad took me to the nurse's station so I could find out what was going on.

The nurse told me that my wife was fine, but still in the emergency room. While I was trying to get all the information processed my dad was behind me asking about the baby. The nurse wouldn't answer him and it took me a few minutes to hear him and I asked about our daughter. i was told she was being taken care of and we could see her soon.

She had come three months early at a length of 12 inches and a weight of 1 pound 11 1/2 ounces!

I got to see my wife and I had never seen so many wires and tubes connected to a person who was awake!

She ended up in the intensive care unit for 24 hours.

I was able to see Veronica (I didn't want to call her "Roni" but even the nurses did for that very first day!) withing a few hours.

She was small and red and I didn't know how she was alive!

It was over the next three months that we learned all you would ever want to know about preemie's and their care and survival.

Girls are stronger than boys.

The less time they are on a respirator the better off they are.

Babies have a tiny hole in their heart that closes before birth...preemie's are not closed yet.

They like to be touched...but not stroked.

The list goes on and on!

Roni was given a medicine to close the hole in her heart. If it did not work they would do another and then surgery would be a last option. the first dose worked.

She had been on the respirator for a few weeks when I told her as we were leaving from visiting one night that it had been long enough and she should start breathing on her own. That night we called to check on her and the nurse informed us that she had pulled the tube out on her own and was breathing fine! (Probably the last time she listened to me and did what I told her without whining I should add!!! LOL!)

We went through the training of how to bath her and hold her and dress her and wondered how parent brought a baby right home without all the lessons!

We watched as she had IV's placed in veins in her head because all the other ones had been used.

We transferred her to TIC so she could grow and get big enough to finally come home!Veronica the day she came home in April of 1998!

Through it all we never doubted that she would fine.

So far so good!

Roni is great in school, has a fantastic personality and is involved in many activities!

We were blessed that everything worked out so well for us. Twice.

Despite her believing that she is already a teenager i don't know how we could ever have been the same without her!

And despite the fact that she acts too much like I did when I was her age!

So I am the proud father of a pre-teen! How did that happen?!?!

But I am proud and I know my wife is too and I know the Veronica is special...because I saw her grow into what she is today from that cold day in January 11 years ago.

~ Glenn

January 27, 2016 Edit:

Roni at 18:

Christmas Is the time to say I Love you

I truly hope everyone had a great holiday!

Here is the one hour crazy Christmas show I did last night for my weekly show!



Enjoy!

~ Glenn

Do they know its Christmas

My son Josh, 6 years old, reading the classic Christmas poem "Twas The Night Before Christmas".

Merry Christmas everyone!

~ Glenn

The saga begins

So why would I celebrate the year before I turn 40?

A couple reasons:

1) I never planned to live that long! For years my running joke was that I didn't expect to live past 40 and now with the date just one short year away I'm starting worry that I was either right ...or wrong! Either way I'm screwed!

2) Why not? I know that sound over simplistic, but its true. I plan to enjoy every day until next October 18th (and hopefully beyond) as a way of helping others ease into their 4th decade.

As the year unfold I'll be posting every day.

Some will be short thoughts, others will be my typical long diatribes on whatever has set me off that day.

I encourage everyone to share their thoughts on getting older, er better.

Like any life there will be ups and downs and I look forward to every one of them!

So, since it IS my birthday I'm going to take the rest of the day off!