Greetings everyone,

Sorry it has been so long since I have wrote. We have been all been doing very good. We had a nice Easter. It was very low key and that was nice. Mom and the kids and I went to church and it was nice to see everyone there. We then went to Homestead and had dinner with Grandpa Al,
he is doing as good as can be expected. Then we had a visit from my dads brother Galyan and his wife Trish it was nice to see them also. It was hard to have that first holiday without dad, as I am sure all the first will be.

Mom and I did not have to come back until Monday afternoon as I am now doing clinic only twice a week. Bright and early Tuesday morning I checked into the hospital for my first of 4 biopsies and they also removed the stint that was in between my bladder and kidney. After some confusion and running around the hospital Dr. Smith came out and told mom that things had gone good. He said the stint came out very easy and that he thought the biopsy looked good and he would be surprised if anything was wrong with it. But we did not actually get the results until this morning. When I called the clinic they said it look wonderful. It was good news to finally hear the results.

Well, today we entered another phase in the healing process, and this one was just as hard as the first one. The first one was to see Deanna leave. Today, mom went home and it was just as hard to have her leave. It has been very nice to have this time to be together. Although, we live close and see each other often it was nice to have this time together. It is extremely quite in the apartment today. I will have to find lots of things to do.

This weekend I will stay up here in Wichita. Both of my kids will end up here sometime throughout the weekend. Allie will be leaving Friday to come up for a confirmation retreat. I plan to see her at the mall on Sat. night for a few hours. My friend Terri will be bring Dylan and her two sons Levi and Gavin up on Sat. morning. They will spend the night with me here in the apartment then on Sunday morning we will drive to Topeka for the boys to bowl in the state Pepsi bowling tournament. I then plan to be home the next Thursday afternoon. Mary Ann watch out I should be traveling the road quite often that weekend.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.
Bless all of you for your continued prayers and concern.
Danna

Hello,

We are back in Wichita. Mom and I got in about 9:30pm which was a little later than we wanted but it was hard to leave home. I was responsible for the alarm clock this morning so guess what we over slept. We are typically the first ones in for clinic but not today we were last. All my labs came back great. I did get a shot of "epo" it is to help my body make red blood cells. That was a function my old kidneys did and now my new one needs a little help getting caught up.

Like mom said we were home for the weekend and it was wonderful. The weekend was a pretty normal one and that was nice. Dylan bowls on Sat mornings so it was nice to get to watch him again. Then Allie needed track shoes so we off to get those. Tonight, we are going to take Dorothy (moms friend) with us to Sugar Sisters for another night of Bingo. We can't wait it is a pretty fun time.

We are not doing much here so I will probably not blog again till later this week.

Love Danna

Hello Friends and Family,
I am sitting at home in Holcomb, Kansas. Deanna is with "her boys" in Ohio and Danna is in Garden City making an appointment, picking up her children running them to youth group and grocery shopping. As she pulled out of my drive this afternoon, she asked, "Do you need anything Mom!" I'd say she has taken control of her life.

We are home for the weekend, but will return on Sunday afternoon. Danna drove about 1/2 of the way home from Wichita today. I do believe in the power of prayer and our lives have experienced it, thank you. I know that the girls will be writing again when they catch a moment. I just wanted to let you know that all is well. Norma