Off to Corpus We are getting ready to drive down to Corpus Christi for the weekend. My father, Gene Van Cleave, is being inducted into the CC Ray High School Hall of Fame. He coached there from 1956 to 1968 as an assistant. It is a very nice honor for him and our family. Tait's middle name is "Van" which is what everyone called my Dad. It should be a great weekend, hopefully we get to the beach at some point. We are praying for a UT victory as well, my Dad and my husband both went to school there (and we all know how gruppy JE can get if they lose!). So in closing I have to say..."Beat OU!!"
Love you Dad/Grandpa Van! Congrats!
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Fall Bloom in South Texas
The Aster is blooming after waiting all summer! It looks great! Thanks to Grandma Johnson for the small transplant she gave us this spring, it's hard to imagine that this huge beautiful plant came from such humble beginnings.
off to Corpus It is a beautiful Friday in San Antonio. I took a friends advice and took a day off from school. It is getting more and more difficult to get there and make it through the day. i really feel like my students are beginning to suffer as a result. So i am taking the weekend to think about what i may do here in the near future. I did do the ultimate "Mom thing" this morning. I took Tait to school comlete in robe and "bed head." (please keep in mind that i have been up since about 3:30 am! we are talking major Halloween scare!) i enjoyed a supreme sunrise on the ride home. I am heading into the doctors office for some iv antibiotics then home to pack for the trip this weekend. My Dad, a long time High School football coach, is being added to a local hall of fame. I am very proud. Though he has been gone quite a long time, i know that he had a profound influence on who i am and the fact that i bacame a coach and educator. This celebration will hopefully keep my mind off the thoughts of my gamma knife procedure that will occur on Monday. We will give it a try anyway.
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Sunday, October 6, 2002
Weekend at the lake
We spent a wonderful weekend at the lake doing nothing but relaxing, feeding the geese, fishing, eating, and watching TV. Tait even kept his PJs on all day Saturday while Dad went to Austin to see the Longhorns play.
Thanks God for the wonderful Central Texas weather!
It has been about a week since I began having massive headaches, burred vision and vomitting. Last Monday night we went to the ER where they took a CT and got my head pain under control. The next day Dr. Kapoor had an MRI done which showed a MET (metastatic tumor) on my brain. It sits kind of in the back of my head down almost where the neck starts. After sorting out the various options we are going to go with the gamma knife. Not really a knife at all but rather 201 focused rays of radiation, each single ray by itself is harmless but where they converge it will (we hope!) destroy this tumor. It is a way to go inside your head and take care of things like this without having to open you up! Anyway we are lucky in that there are a limited number of these machines around and one happens to live in San Antonio. We think it will happen on Monday the 14th...stay tuned.
