Day two after surgery has a little more pain than last night. He has stayed quiet all day Friday and been careful not to exert too much effort.
He’s surprised at how much pain he’s in.
Billy is recovering
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Billy Wayne had surgery yesterday
All is well. Dr. Thomas was able to do it in his office, but it was surgery just the same.
He’s recovering at home and following the doctor’s directions to take it easy.
The facts are, he was found to have melanoma again. Yesterday’s surgery was to cut out the affected tissue and everything around it. Pathology will tell us in a week or so if it is completely gone.
You can reach him by e-mail at billgodwin@texoma.net.
We’re keeping our fingers crossed that he won’t have to have any further procedures and also won’t have to have the interferon therapy again.
We’ll keep you posted.
Back from Vegas
We arrived at Addison Airport Monday night after a fun-filled trip that included a night with Brooks & Dunn, a tour of Hoover Dam, the South Point arena, shopping at the Las Vegas Convention Center and a day at the spa.
Now, back to the real world and back to work.
Backstage with Brooks & Dunn
Brooks & Dunn Concert 12-6-08
More Midland folk
Who are these folks from Midland
Can anyone tell me who these people are from a reunion probably in 1992 or 93?
1st Sgt. Miguel A. Wilson
BONHAM — When 1st Sgt. Miguel Anthony Wilson, 36, said good-bye to his mother a month ago, he assured her he was happy in his job and proud of his missions and what he was doing in the military. He told her he knew there was danger and if something happened, he would want his family to celebrate his life and not mourn him.
But Friday, when a military detail, including a chaplain, came to her home in Bonham. The words they spoke to her seemed like a dream from which she thought she would awake any moment. They said her son died Friday in Abu Sayf, Iraq while he was rescuing another soldier. His mother learned later another soldier was drowning and her son jumped in to save him. “Later on we found out he did save him,” she said. “He didn’t take his gear off (when he jump in the water) which those back packs weigh 65 pounds. He just dived in and saved his fellow soldier and the weight of that back pack kept him under and then the current, they said, was strong and he drowned.”
Wanda Wilson said, the whole time the chaplain was speaking to her she just kept saying “no, no, no, no.” And, even now, though in her head she understands what happened, a little part of her still doesn’t believe it. “I don’t think it will become real to me until I go to the viewing and I know that is going to be hard for me,” she said.
First Sgt. Wilson was a 1990 graduate of Bonham High School where he was a member of the Warriors football team. His stepfather Vincent Neal says 1st Sgt. Wilson played corner back and running back. His father Michael Cooke, of Denison, remembers that Miguel stood out in soccer, played a little basketball and also ran track.
Wanda said through her tears, “Today, I’m fine. I’m not sad. I’m a very proud mother.”
His memorial service will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Fort Hood’s 19th Street Chapel with interment at Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen at 3 p.m.
A second memorial service will be held in Bonham at 3 p.m., Dec. 2 at the First Baptist Church of Bonham. The Patriot Guard Riders will serve as escorts for the family.
I might be a good bear
When you’re a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could totally do that.
Before you hibernate, you’re supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could totally do that too.
When you’re a girl bear, you birth your children (who are the size of walnuts, the big ones are about a pound) while you’re sleeping and wake to partially grown, cute, cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that.
If you’re a momma bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone who messes with your cubs, and if your cubs get out of line you swat them too. I could deal with that.
If you’re a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat. Yep, I’d make a good bear.
Now, I’d like to take credit for all this cuteness and wonderful comparisons to nature, but I can’t.
I heard it first from Mary Roberts last week as she opened my Bible study session. She said she usually looks for things to make people laugh that go along with the study materials for the day. “I’m just going to tell you up front,” she said. “I’m telling you this one just because I think it’s so cute.” She said it had been sent to her in an e-mail, and while she normally doesn’t forward or pay a lot of attention to them, she did read this one and loved it.
I loved it too. Enough so that I took the time to investigate the life of the American Black Bear (Ursus Americanus). It’s true about child birth during sleep. The little cubs nurse from their sleeping mom and find their warmth from her body while they grow their own fur.
It’s merely one more piece of evidence that our universe has been planned in every detail by a higher being. Bears don’t experience bone loss during those long periods of inactivity and they also don’t take bathroom breaks during their months of sleep.
Scientists are puzzled by these two features. Research has led to isolating a chemical in the bear’s blood that may prevent bone loss and could ultimately lend itself to treating human osteoporosis.
Yep, I could be a bear and would probably like it. But God made me a woman, and one thing I’ve learned in my 60 years is that God has a plan for me (Jeremiah 29:11). Accepting that is far more rewarding than anything I could want for myself.
I’m happy to be how God made me.
Role Models in my church
I stumbled across a quote I once read. I liked it well enough to write it down but must offer apologies to its author because I didn’t make a note of his or her name.
As I look at it today, I think of Julia and Bill Jacks in Van Alstyne. I’ll bet everyone reading this knows someone to whom this applies: “Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing who to thank. The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have.”
Bill’s illnesses have kept him from attending services for some time and that has worsened. Until illness overtook him a few years ago, he was helping out at church whenever his skills fit the need.
It never surprised me to run by the church to drop something off or pick something up and find him in his coveralls with a hammer or saw in his hand and always with a big smile.
Julia also has been a servant in a variety of areas in our church. I’ve watched this beautiful couple, the past 20 years, enjoy their lives, their friends, their church and family. Bill played many years in a local country western band.
Thank God for those wonderful people in our lives who set such fine examples for the rest of us.