Doing very well since my latest stent installation on Monday. I worked Friday most of the day with no ill effects. Tim, I need to make you aware of the association between Sleep Apnea and CAD (Coronary Artery Disease). Seems that most experts believe that the first causes the second. I first needed the CPAP machine 14 years ago so you better have your doctor order you a nuclear stress test to determine if you have evidence of blockage in any of your arteries. You don't need any of them to get as bad as mine was (100%, 95% and 80%) before something is done about it. It is a miracle that I did not have a heart attack, both doctors and nurses told me that while I was in the hospital. If any of the rest of you have symptoms that suggest you have sleep apnea, then the same goes for you. Have the doctors test forblockages that may even now be forming. Read this paper on the subject and this link. http://ttuhsc.edu/som/internalmedicine/pulm/education/other_references/sh_osa_cad_sleep_med_reviews_2008.pdf All this week, since my arteries have been open, I have found that I cannot sleep all night with the CPAP machine. I can go to sleep with it but once I wake up to go the bathroom, I am unable to go back to sleep with it, it's just like I don't need it. So I took it off and I was able to go to sleep the rest of the night without the machine and I was not snoring. Doctors agree there is an association between the two but some disagree on which came first, perhaps the CAD caused the Sleep Apnea. As I learn more, I will let eveyone know. As for now, I am MUCH IMPROVED! Thank you for all your prayers.

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Thank You Jesus!! Monica, God is always on time...Just not OUR time!! I'm so happy for you!

The Nelons - The Holy Hills of Heaven

Teresa:

I will pass on your invitation to Dan for Thanksgiving dinner.  He left this morning to come down there and hunt.

I have a praise report!!  I now have a new position at work and it's the days and hours that I've wanted  and prayed for :)  Don't know when I start it but it will be soon.  PRAISE THE LORD!!  PRAISE THE LORD!!

Thanksgiving

Just to let you guys know~ If you don't have plans for Thanksgiving your more than welcome to come join me and my family, the door is always open.  Thursday @ 1:00

To all my family and friends, Just want to thank each and every one for your love and support for me and my family in our time of grief, for the ones who emailed me or blogged , or sent a card or a phone call , Just want you to know it was greatly appreciated. The kindness and love and prayers and support  you showed me and the kids . With Gods love we will all come out on top of the mountain we are only in the valley for a while, but he is always with us he never leaves us alone.Love you all dearly.

Vonda, I love the pics of everyone.  It's been so long since I've seen some of your children and grandchildren.  The ones of you and your siblings are quite nice as well :)

Julie and David, glad to hear everything went well and is progressing well.  Both of you try to get some rest.  David, don't go trying to hook the cart to the horse and do too many things too quickly :P

xoxo

So glad everything went well for you David. Thanks for letting us know, Julie.

Hey Just wanted to let you know that everything went well with David today. They had a little trouble with an extreme narrowing in one artery so they ballooned it and put in a stent. So now he has 4 stents. His color is so much better already and he is breathing soooo much better. Should be able to come home tomorrow. Am exhausted so will hush for now. Julie

A RETIREE'S LAST TRIP to Piggy Wiggly Yesterday I was at my local Piggy Wiggly buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Jake, the Wonder Dog and was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had an elephant? So because I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a Perfect Diet and that the way that it works is, to load your pants pockets with Purina Nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care, because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stopped to Pee on a Fire Hydrant and a car hit me. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was Laughing so hard. Piggy Wiggly won't let me shop there anymore.

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WGMS Veterans Day celebration....I remember you with TAPS

Jacob and Chandler singing in the veterans day celebration.  Chan is in the middle bottom row and Jacob is on the top far left.

Love you dad!

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OH, BOY TIMMY you just let the cat out of the bag about the car deal I never knew that one , as long as we have been married , thats just too funny. well i guess he thought you being from the country , you should know how to drive , I think his grandpa in ohio used to let him and Ralph drive when they would spend the summers with them.Thanks that made my day.Love you all

Lorie just texted that viewing is from 4 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home and in state from 9 to 10 a.m. at the church followed by the service and lunch afterwards.

Tim and Cindy again, To David, my big Brother! Our prayers are with you and your family. God is good and is ALWAYS there for us. That is a great report, or what God has brought you through. Cindy and I just got home yesterday evening, and most of you probably don't know, we had been at the hospital for the last 24 hours, after Cindy woke up in the morning, around 2am with severe chest pains, (as she put it) on a scale of one to ten, she said her pain was 25...I could NOT convince her to let me take her to the hospital, at that time... Long story short, she finally dozed off in the recliner and her breathing relaxed, and she slept. When she woke up later in the morning and got to her feet, it started all over again, at that time, she agreed to go the the hospital... After extended prayer, both here and at the hospital, and extended tests, the conclusion was, the tests showed some heart damage, and after some nitro pills, she was feeling better and they gave her a perscription (nitro pills) and they told her she could come home. She is resting today and feeling much better. Just wanted to let you guys know. We love you and thinking about you and praying for you...And, Yes, We are going to follow up with a specialist and get the "jest" of what's going on. God is Good.

Condolences from Timmy and Cindy! Vonda, Our thoughts and prayers are of you and your family and extended family. I am remembering a quote from something in my past about the loss of a loved one. "As long as he is in our memories, he will always be with us." I think of Dad everyday, when I am going about the chores of the day! As I go about my work, especially as I get older, sometimes I think I will put something off until another day, or will start something and be too tired to finish it...I will hear DAD say, "If your not gonna do that right, then leave it alone!" It is like he is ALWAYS there, not physically, but nonetheless, ALWAYS there. I am remembering David, the first time Bobbie and I EVER had Kentucky Fried Chicken! We we on our way to Michigan, the first time either of us had ever been out of State, I think I was 12. You guys ask us, (after we had been on the road for several hours,) if we was hungry, Ahh, YEAH,,,LOL and David pulled into a KFC and got all kinds of goodies, (Bucket of Chicken, Crispy, bowl of Gravey, bowl of patatoes, bowl of green beans, and Biscuits with honey.) And I don't have to tell you how we dug in, as you may well remember... We pulled of the road, at a roadside table and had our first (Picnic) and just thought "that was the STUFF! David just sat there and grinned, like we were starving orphans that he had just rescued, and kept telling us to eat up, (like he really needed to)! And then there was the day, you guys took Bobbie and I to the lake, for an all day of fun, with Jeff and Susan, and we all got sunburned really bad because we wouldn't keep the sunblock on, cause we keep getting in the water. David said, "guess that will learn ya,,,,in so many words....and it did! And then there is the time, you guys took us to Canada, (on the 4th of July) and we watched the fireworks, that was just awesome. But most of all, and you most likely don't know this! Once when you guys were down home, David asked me to go to the store, at Dawson, with him one night, and you guys had just got a new car, (I think it was a Cadilac...anyway, when we came out of the store, David said ( YOU drive home, I am going to drink my soda.....WELL, who was I to argue with him, (I was only 13 or so....) so I got behind the wheel, and away we went, I felt like I had just got in the cockpit of a huge airplane! On the way back, on the long straight stretch, before the Old Stone Church, I dropped of the shoulder, barely being able to see the road, and David kinda just staightened up in the seat a bit and said, "Everything alright, Son" and I said, Yeah, I got this, just can't see the road...and then he showed me how to raise the seat...Ha...and then I was good to go... And he let me drive the rest of the way home...I don't remember if we ever told anyone about that. And for a 13 year old, I don't have to tell you how COOL that was. Anyway, I could go on and on, of the memories and with that, again, We LOVE you and you guys are prevalent in our hearts and minds, with all of our love. Timmy and Cindy

I talked to Vonda this morning and they are going to the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. to finalize funeral arrangements.  Calling hours will be Wednesday evening (she will post times after their meeting) at Martenson Funeral Home, 3200 West Road, Trenton, MI  48183, telephone 734-671-5400, and the funeral will be Thursday morning (she will also post the time for this) at Woodhaven Freewill Baptist Church, 26191 Allen Road, Woodhaven, MI  48183, and David will be laid out there one hour before.