Moon and I have faced some pretty serious challenges recently. There are a number hurdles we must overcome before we can look to a future together. We both pray and lay out before the Lord our desires and our pleading for His help. Friday was an especially tough day as some in the immigration service can be pretty touch to deal with, even if some things were caused by other people they still become a part of the current case. We have spent some pretty tense hours on the phone sharing fears, concerns, hopes and disappointments.
We honestly do not know the future. Yes in the middle of adversity one learns a lot about another person and I see an ability to cry, despair and then allow faith to start to build again. I see inner strength in Moon!
Today I had lunch with Keanna, Kallie and Nikki at California Pizza Kitchen, what fun to be able to see them, to hear their happy chatter and to be able to eat real food again after a week of soft food and trying to avoid bleeding.
I think I told you I'm having the heart procedures done on August 17 at 5:30 am. They are doing at least three things: putting a mechanical aortic value in, cutting away a chamber where blood tends to pool and can cause strokes and they will burn or cut a place in my heart that can in about 60% of the cases stop AFib from taking place, that is where I wake up in the morning with a heart rate of 145 instead of 52 resting and all day it races between 145 and 90 and I feel terrible all day. Those are high risk stroke days. I am very impressed with Dr. Allen, Johns Hopkins specialist. Until that time I'll be working as hard as I can attempting to benefit from all these extra orders that are coming in right now. It is certainly raining orders right now but as of tonight I have them all scheduled and ready to fly now. It will be an intense week and I'm up for it.
Just got to talk to Moon after she attended an open house and met a new lady friend, a good experience for her, a Chinese Malaysian woman who is an artist and had many things out to enjoy.
Now its time to rest and spend time in prayer.
Love to all
Tim
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Not a good day
Walking out of the office to drive to SF appointment with Dr. Allen, phone rings, his office says he is involved in emergency surgery and cannot keep the appointment, it felt like my entire day just got flushed down, for two weeks I have planned for this day, scheduled the entire week for this day and had a sleepless night as I looked for this appointment to answer questions as to when, what kind of surgery, how long the hospital stay, the recovery? But it was not to be. The lady was very nice and felt terrible, my cardiologist send an email putting some pressure too. Late this afternoon I got a call that the know all scheduler would call me in the morning to figure out a new appointment. So now I wait not making new appointments with dozens of appraisals that need to be done.
So I drove to Oakland to inspect a house that turned out to be twice as large as public records and my comps were wrong, then a call came in, could I come in for the dental hygienist work an hour early at 4 instead of 5? Actually I could not do that but I tried, got there at 4:40 and what a rough hour and then I had to pay $332 for the privilege of being cleaned!! Oh it just keeps getting better these days.
Actually Moon was helpful on the phone today to keep me focused on good things and hope and that was the bright spot in the day.
Now I sleep with many to see tomorrow, thankful for work, thankful for life in spite of bad days.
Love to all
Tim
So I drove to Oakland to inspect a house that turned out to be twice as large as public records and my comps were wrong, then a call came in, could I come in for the dental hygienist work an hour early at 4 instead of 5? Actually I could not do that but I tried, got there at 4:40 and what a rough hour and then I had to pay $332 for the privilege of being cleaned!! Oh it just keeps getting better these days.
Actually Moon was helpful on the phone today to keep me focused on good things and hope and that was the bright spot in the day.
Now I sleep with many to see tomorrow, thankful for work, thankful for life in spite of bad days.
Love to all
Tim
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Private show tonight
While talking to my brother I heard almost constant fireworks being ignited. So I took the phone and walked to my back deck, there I watched a 20 minute constant fire works display that would rival some small town fireworks shows, and it appears to have come from a private backyard of someone living on the next bay over from my home. It was a great display and even though a night early was enjoyable. I woke this morning to sirens in the area but never learned why? Often times people are injured on the water, there are hundreds of miles of delta waterways where people often get injured in boating accidents, people rush them to shore and then a helicopter lands in the park nearby and transports them to Walnut Creek where they can be treated. It happens nearly every weekend here and reminds me of why its such a great ideal not to be on the water on a busy Sunday near Discovery Bay.
Today I did 4 appraisals, all nearby, arriving at the first appointment at 10 this morning I found the lady had forgotten and was still sleeping, it turned out OK though, then the second one people were enjoying drinks already at 11 in the morning, property was great, people were very nice, easy to do. then back to the office to work with Jessy as she worked on files, then at 5 I went out to do two more appraisals, both with lock box key, an electronic device I lease that lets me into homes on the market. With those finished I came back home and at Moon's prompting made some great noodles with peas and pinto beans and worked until a few minutes ago when I finally finished a very tough one for a home located in Martinez. They took at 1600 sf house and remodeled it to a 2700 house while most of the neighborhood remains a 1600 sf home area. That means it is overbuilt and presents the appraiser with a huge challenge, another fact, they use it all day for a day care center, lenders don't like that much. Oh well, it is done now and shipped to the lender.
Good night one and all,
Just got news that Jason and family have reached Denver to visit Jo's mom and aunt, nice that they are safe and home with family tonight.
Love to all
Tim
Today I did 4 appraisals, all nearby, arriving at the first appointment at 10 this morning I found the lady had forgotten and was still sleeping, it turned out OK though, then the second one people were enjoying drinks already at 11 in the morning, property was great, people were very nice, easy to do. then back to the office to work with Jessy as she worked on files, then at 5 I went out to do two more appraisals, both with lock box key, an electronic device I lease that lets me into homes on the market. With those finished I came back home and at Moon's prompting made some great noodles with peas and pinto beans and worked until a few minutes ago when I finally finished a very tough one for a home located in Martinez. They took at 1600 sf house and remodeled it to a 2700 house while most of the neighborhood remains a 1600 sf home area. That means it is overbuilt and presents the appraiser with a huge challenge, another fact, they use it all day for a day care center, lenders don't like that much. Oh well, it is done now and shipped to the lender.
Good night one and all,
Just got news that Jason and family have reached Denver to visit Jo's mom and aunt, nice that they are safe and home with family tonight.
Love to all
Tim
Friday, July 1, 2016
Update
Dear Family, Friends and interested persons,
Its Friday evening and I'm home now after a 4:30 meeting with an Oral Surgeon. He was recommended by Dr. Todorovic, my local dentist whose office is here in Discovery Bay. I went there because during the x ray process a mass appeared above #3 tooth, Since Mike could not determine what it was in caution he referred me to Dr. Deragopian, DMD, MD. I was given excellent care and am somewhat relieved now. He had the assistant do a new set of x rays and then he used a small tool to probe that one tooth, a molar Dr. Clarke thought should be removed a full year ago. He could not pull it because he had just broken his wrist or elbow in a fall, referred me to get it pulled and when it did not hurt I just did nothing.
The dentist today looked closely at the tooth and was able to insert the little tool way deep in the tooth, much further than he should have been able to to, about 10 when he said 2 was all he should have been able to insert. That plus the x ray told him the tooth has failed, the root canal has failed and the tooth must come out. Not only that but he is pretty sure that the area that shows up like a mass and caused me such a scare about cancer in the sinus is in fact on the tooth side of the bone and in fact is just something that has built up from a failing tooth.
So if all goes well by July 11 he plans to remove the tooth, carefully clean out all the mess above the tooth and by the bone and let it heal. The process becomes much more expensive and complicated if he has to use a patch to cover a hole into the sinus through the bone. One way the total cost is $960 and the other is $1,760. Either way I have no choice as this has to happen before the heart surgery can take place. Of course for him to be able to do his work the Coumedin in my blood has to be held for two days to get the INR, blood thickness down to 1.7 to 2.2 when it normally runs about 2.7 or 2.8, thinner than he wants to deal with doing surgery in my mouth. So my heart cardiologist needs to be contacted to allow the blood to become thicker for a brief period since that increases the risk of a stroke if A Fib happens to occur during the time when the blood is thicker.
I see the heart surgeon, Dr. Allen on Tuesday at 11:45 in San Francisco, then that evening I have the second session with the lady doing a deep cleaning of my teeth and then on the 7th I see her again for the last cleaning. What a complicated life I live right now and all the while I have more appraisal work to complete than ever before in my career. Moon calls it a blessing and thanks God and she is right but I sure need every minute of my time doing work and doing it well. Jessy is wonderful in her help and after the heart surgery she will be my driver for awhile until they allow me to drive again. Steve would help if he could but he has been discovered by lenders and he is buried with work now too, that is a blessing so long in coming for him.
I appreciate your prayers for me and for Moon, we continue to wait for immigration to get to her case and give her the freedom to move about freely here which she does not have currently, we continue to pray for her daddy who is so ill and for her mom who is a 12 hour a day caregiver to him, then there is Crystal, her 20 year old daughter who is just about to be given a green card and allowed to come here after a many year battle.
We are thankful to a loving God who continues to help us, care for us and bless us.
I must say that I've had a life that is remarkably free of illness and the heart thing, the very narrow opening in the valve is a surprise to me. Yet we live in an age where many medical things are now possible that were not available years ago. I love life, I love my family and soon Jason and Jo with kids are driving from Southern California where they have been enjoying Disneyland (Jason and the kids while Jo attended in service classes she needs as a teach), now they drive to Colorado to see her mom and aunt so we keep them in our prayers.
Thank you for praying and remembering me, life is so different now from the many years with Nan, weekends are very tough to be alone day and night and I never get over coping with being alone. At least now Moon and I are hoping for a different future together, we don't know when or exactly how but we are trusting our heavenly Father to guide us and open doors for our future. She is very excited about the heart value replacement and the promised great energy and health on the other side.
So I send love to all,
I hope you enjoy your family and treasure relationships, they are eternal.
Love
tim
Its Friday evening and I'm home now after a 4:30 meeting with an Oral Surgeon. He was recommended by Dr. Todorovic, my local dentist whose office is here in Discovery Bay. I went there because during the x ray process a mass appeared above #3 tooth, Since Mike could not determine what it was in caution he referred me to Dr. Deragopian, DMD, MD. I was given excellent care and am somewhat relieved now. He had the assistant do a new set of x rays and then he used a small tool to probe that one tooth, a molar Dr. Clarke thought should be removed a full year ago. He could not pull it because he had just broken his wrist or elbow in a fall, referred me to get it pulled and when it did not hurt I just did nothing.
The dentist today looked closely at the tooth and was able to insert the little tool way deep in the tooth, much further than he should have been able to to, about 10 when he said 2 was all he should have been able to insert. That plus the x ray told him the tooth has failed, the root canal has failed and the tooth must come out. Not only that but he is pretty sure that the area that shows up like a mass and caused me such a scare about cancer in the sinus is in fact on the tooth side of the bone and in fact is just something that has built up from a failing tooth.
So if all goes well by July 11 he plans to remove the tooth, carefully clean out all the mess above the tooth and by the bone and let it heal. The process becomes much more expensive and complicated if he has to use a patch to cover a hole into the sinus through the bone. One way the total cost is $960 and the other is $1,760. Either way I have no choice as this has to happen before the heart surgery can take place. Of course for him to be able to do his work the Coumedin in my blood has to be held for two days to get the INR, blood thickness down to 1.7 to 2.2 when it normally runs about 2.7 or 2.8, thinner than he wants to deal with doing surgery in my mouth. So my heart cardiologist needs to be contacted to allow the blood to become thicker for a brief period since that increases the risk of a stroke if A Fib happens to occur during the time when the blood is thicker.
I see the heart surgeon, Dr. Allen on Tuesday at 11:45 in San Francisco, then that evening I have the second session with the lady doing a deep cleaning of my teeth and then on the 7th I see her again for the last cleaning. What a complicated life I live right now and all the while I have more appraisal work to complete than ever before in my career. Moon calls it a blessing and thanks God and she is right but I sure need every minute of my time doing work and doing it well. Jessy is wonderful in her help and after the heart surgery she will be my driver for awhile until they allow me to drive again. Steve would help if he could but he has been discovered by lenders and he is buried with work now too, that is a blessing so long in coming for him.
I appreciate your prayers for me and for Moon, we continue to wait for immigration to get to her case and give her the freedom to move about freely here which she does not have currently, we continue to pray for her daddy who is so ill and for her mom who is a 12 hour a day caregiver to him, then there is Crystal, her 20 year old daughter who is just about to be given a green card and allowed to come here after a many year battle.
We are thankful to a loving God who continues to help us, care for us and bless us.
I must say that I've had a life that is remarkably free of illness and the heart thing, the very narrow opening in the valve is a surprise to me. Yet we live in an age where many medical things are now possible that were not available years ago. I love life, I love my family and soon Jason and Jo with kids are driving from Southern California where they have been enjoying Disneyland (Jason and the kids while Jo attended in service classes she needs as a teach), now they drive to Colorado to see her mom and aunt so we keep them in our prayers.
Thank you for praying and remembering me, life is so different now from the many years with Nan, weekends are very tough to be alone day and night and I never get over coping with being alone. At least now Moon and I are hoping for a different future together, we don't know when or exactly how but we are trusting our heavenly Father to guide us and open doors for our future. She is very excited about the heart value replacement and the promised great energy and health on the other side.
So I send love to all,
I hope you enjoy your family and treasure relationships, they are eternal.
Love
tim
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