Anna and Achilles's Blog (24)

I hope everyone could say a prayer for our veterans. My father a world war two Vet. died Sunday May 18th. He was a two time bronze medal earning for bravery in action. He was my every day hero. A great father, grand father and great grand father. I will miss him dearly. I have no idea what to do with my time now. I was caring for him with my siblings 24/7 for some time now. 

So I checked my page today and noticed that I am A Hopeless Doodle Addict at last! I have been on DK for more than two years now, but am more of a comment person than a blog person, not like Laurie some people. I was so excited to see that I finally have the honor of being HDA.  All kidding aside this place has been a source of knowledge thanks to some wonderful people. A source of comfort when going through hard times. And last but not…

Hey everyone! Just got power back. It was a doozy. We were soooo lucky! My town is a mess but some how we personally escaped damage. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. I am sure that is why I am so blessed.

Everything is tied down. trees are blowing. just waiting for it to hit. We are next to a brook. So stress is high. Did everything we could to prevent damage. Waiting, waiting! hard to tell what will happen. Think positive thoughts…

As I mentioned before two of my sons wrote a musical. There high school drama teacher submitted it to the New York Musical festival. Out of 400 musicals 30 were chosen. The Two Month Rule was one of the 30. Needless to say we have been busy. My husband who is very handy created and built the set the boys were a whirlwind of rehearsals rewrites etc... The show was for three days in July the 13th, 14th and 15th. Well do to their tenasity doing promotional events in city they sold out all three…

So just got back from a very long day. I had really great results!!!!! My numbers are all good. My Dr. wants to see me in 6 months. I can handle that. One step at a time. Yeah!!! Thanks for all your wonderful wishes thoughts and prayers. They worked. <3 <3 :)

So many of you know I have been battling leukemia. I go every 6 months to see if I am still in remission. One year ago on June 8th I was finally told remission. Again in Dec. I was still in remission. It is that time again.…

This morning  while I was folding laundry my mind started wandering, no big news there. I started to think about how long I have been on DK. I feel like I actually know many of you well. I talk about some of you all the time (all good) in my daily life. On Yappy hour last night a few of us mentioned how our DH's knew names of people and doodles like they were family. They have asked about so and so when things have gone wrong. My husband checked in to see if Guiness was feeling better. My…

For those of you who know me I had a little health blip starting a year ago. It was right before Christmas last year that my Dr. started to think there was something wrong with me after a routine blood test. I wont go into all the details however they found that I had leukemia. Went through Chemo and doing very well in remission as of June 8th. Dec. 7th  was my 6 month check up at Sloan Kettering. Needless to say the week leading up to that I was a nervous wreck. Well, I am still in…

On Tuesday of last week my son Nolan came home for the first time since he went away to college. We were so excited. He is Achilles' favorite brother. So he did his whistle (the one he used to call Achilles since he was a puppy) from outside. Achilles went crazy when he heard it. He looked out the window and saw Nolan. He made the most amazing sound I have ever heard. It was a guttural sound that I have never heard before. It was the most beautiful moment I have ever witnessed.

It has…

This is Achilles, I am writing to complain. The world is not revolving around me right now and I am displeased. Oh I know this is all happy stuff, I can feel it in the air but come on who is the most important one? Me Right? Started in May with My oldest brother graduating from college.Everyone was running around, Mom was yelling for everyone to hurry up.  No one was home all day!!!. My aunt had to come and let me out. Then the middle brother had showcases at his acting school, not one day (…

Thank you, thank you thank you!!! All of you here on DK have been so wonderful and supportive over the past two months.

It was so nice that even though I have never met any of you, you were there for me. Having leukemia is not something anyone could say is lucky however since I learned I have it, I have realized how truly lucky and blessed I am.

My appointment at Sloan Kettering yesterday went very well. The Dr. said that all of my numbers are in the normal range. I can go back…