Epic Lord Of The Rings Quotes!

In the past few days a LOT of people have been referencing Lord Of The Rings, and I heard 3 great quotes...

Snake Oil
My friend plays a "Fluid Ring" and says its indestructible, then my brother says "It is indestructible, unless it is thrown into the fire from which it came."
Me: "We must make the trip to Mordor."

Steam Game Sale
"One does not simply buy ONE steam sale game."

Playing "Dementor" (A fun little game)
My friend is blocking my way to tag someone, and says "You, SHALL NOT, PASS!"

Sorry, just heard those 3 in the past few days, figured I share it with all of you. Thanks for reading!

Starwars Force Awakens VS Starwars Battlefront

Alright, so since Disney got their hands on Lucas Film, and essentially the Starwars Franchise, they are now coming out with a whole list of new products and movies. The war I'm having with myself, which one am I more happy to see come out?

Starwars Force Awakens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs
First empression: YAY! New Starwars movie!
Second empression: Uh, wait a second here...
Second thoughts: Awww man... Dont screw it up again!

So, taking into consideration, the last 3 movies that came out sucked story wise, do we REALLY want another 3 coming out?! People make the argument, "Well, George Lucas isn't taking charge this time, so it should be AWESOME!" Yes, but once a story is perfect, you really shouldn't mess with it.
Even with all of that, I am still so VERY excited to see another one of these come out just to see if it turns out good.

Starwars Battlefront
First empression: What in the world?!
Second empression: OH OH OH
Second thoughts: There were none.

So, most everyone into starwars that has a computer, is hyped about this game! The last one was great, but still no space ship battles (I take that back, there are space ship battles, but they are the worst levels), I would like to direct your attention to this link.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2015/08/05/star-wars-battlefronts-epic-ship-combat-gameplay-gamescom-2015
Enough said.

Finally Home

Yesterday Dad came back from the second hospital stay, FINALLY! But we are learning new things as the days go by, such as a nurse comes 2 times a week to check up on dad, and another person comes once a week to check on him. We have also learned that if he stays unplugged, the Freedom Driver will make a battery-like alarm, however much shorter and only every once in a while, just to let him know he is unplugged. The rain cover is built into the backpack, on the bottom pouch, and they gave us special tape to tape up the tubes if they get snagged or have a hole in them. Just a quick update, I will try to continue putting updates to keep you all updated!

Away

Most people would think, when they hear "My dad is getting his heart ripped out of his chest in a week" or "My dad is in the hospital with a robotic heart" you would think that once the surgery is over, the hard part is done with.

I got news for ya, your wrong.

The hardest part is not seeing dad for days at a time, and seeing him have to endure the medications they give him that make him feel bad, and seeing mom run around trying to get everything done that she hasn't done on a regular basis, pay bills, clean the house, cook, ect. Most people look at the kids and think how horrible this is for the kids, and how hard it is on them. It isn't half as hard on us as it is on my mom and dad, they are the ones that have to keep everything else going while this is going on, while trying to keep up with what is going on with the TAH. Thanks for reading.

Rich

Update on Dad

I know Mom and Dad probably don't have much time to post updates on Facebook and such, so I'm trying to keep up here.

Dad is continually doing better every day, and his numbers are getting better as well, he is doing laps every day around the unit, and they are soon talking about putting him on the Freedom Driver. (The backpack)

Just in case you don't know how the Freedom Driver works, I'll tell you. The Freedom driver is a 25-30 pound backpack, that is connected just like the machine he is currently on. The Freedom Driver is also run on batteries just like the machine, but has a much longer battery life. Since the Freedom Driver runs on batteries, its not like you can just "Run out" of batteries, they have a secondary battery, a backup battery, and a backup-backup battery, then guess what? They also have a backup-backup-backup battery for the *first* Freedom Driver. Yes, we do have to carry around a second Freedom Driver that will serve as a backup for the first Freedom Driver. Then that Freedom Driver has a secondary battery, a backup-battery, a backup-backup battery, and a backup-backup-backup battery. Lots of backups. But that insures that if anything goes wrong, there are lots of backups that can fill in if ANYTHING goes wrong. Also, here is the worst case scenario:

Electricity goes out, we forget to charge the batteries, and the first freedom driver fails, and the second also fails. There is a crank where you can manually pump the freedom driver, and that does not fail, it is old fashion -no electricity involved.

So I hope that eases your minds a bit, even the worst thing that can happen with this piece of scrap metal, you can still keep it running. The beat, will go on.

Rejection:
You've probably seen my mom and dad use the term "Rejection" or the body rejecting the heart. This is where, the body sees the new heart as a intruder, and tries to kill it, like it would try to fight off a cold or the flu. The good news is, there are medications to control this, and pretty much always work if you keep taking the rejection pills.

Perry?
You have probably heard that Perry did not do well in his surgery with the heart transplant. I know what I was thinking when I heard that "Does that mean since Dad did well in the TAH surgery just like Perry did, does that mean Dad will do just as badly in the heart transplant as Perry?"

No.
It does not mean that Dad will do just as badly as Perry, and even if he does, Perry was pretty much a worst case scenario for the surgeon and still is getting better every day. Heres the thing: Dad has close to the same heart problem Perry had, but they both have different types within that. Almost every type of HCM is unique, and that sometimes makes it hard for the doctors to adapt to each individual HCM patient. Just because Dad and Perry are almost in the same situation, that does NOT mean that they will react to the surgery the same.

I hope that this post answered most of your questions, thanks for reading!

Back To School Paper/Update/My Thanks/ Funny Things

Back To School Paper

What I did this summer.

Teacher: "Alright Jaime, great paper! Cant wait to see the edited version! Now, lets see here, who's next... Richard! Come up here and read us your paper.

"Yes sir."

"What I did this summer. My summer started out normal, just as it should be. Everything was great, and my dad going into the hospital every 6 weeks to stay for 2 weeks was normal, no issues. My dads heart problem: Hypotrofic-cardeo-myopithy  (I totaly spelled that wrong, dont judge me.) was getting worse, so they had to turn him into a cyborg. My dogs problem, also getting worse. Her brain and how she thinks is CRAZY, and anything metal she licks. So we are going to have to take her to the vet. Then all of my family living all around the US is traveling to help us. With our crazy dog."

"What in the world?! Richard, go to the principles office! This is insane! Right a REAL paper next time!"

"Bu-bu-but sir, this IS a RE-"

"I dont want to hear anything of it! What is Hypotrofic-whatcha-makallet anyway?! SCRAM!"

Update

Dad yesterday was not doing good, probably one of the worst days. That was mainly because he had a "Brown Day" (He used the toilet a lot, or when he couldn't make it there, the chair.". However, in the next few days he should feel much better because of that, and be able to eat. His Cath is compeletly out, and he is walking on his own, as of yesterday (one of his worst days, let me remind you) he did 3 laps around the unit.

My Thanks

I would like to give my thanks to the following people, for spending the night/offered to spend the night and have /are going to come to help us out.

Jenn/Sean

Ellen/Mark

Dominique/ Michelle

Aunt Vicky

Gramsy/Pops

Nana/Papaw

Also thanks to all of the people that have donated, and given snacks, I would try to list all of your names, but there are too many of you :O (You scare me with your size and numbers)

Funny things I've heard in the past week or so:

Pokemon, turns cute little creatures

Into slaughtering death machines.

From Sean

Ipod returnal:

"Hi, would like to return this "Ipod" 5th Generation."

"What problems occurred with the Ipod 5?"

"Well, Uh, when I applied the new apple update, it sorta..."

"What?"

"It disenagrated"

"WHAT?!"

"Its now a pile of metal dust."

"WHAT?!?!"

"I would like to return the pile of dust please, I kept the headphones and charger."

"Wait wait wait, you want to return, that pile of metal dust-"

"Correction, your pile of dust. Expect it on monday."

"Wait, WA-*Call Ended*

From Brennan

Also, a very, very, very very funny video (warning, violence may occur. )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPugcb7QGE

Thanks for reading!

The biggest disappointment, and the best day.

As you know in the last posts, I have been telling you and everyone else that the wait to recover to get BACK onto the transplant list is 2-8 weeks. I was wrong.

Yesterday we were told, "No, not 2-8 weeks. 3-6 *months*, we don't even start talking about putting people back on the transplant list until after 2 months." That, was what we were told yesterday. Now, this is what is going through our minds, "He wont get a heart for another 3 months at the least, it'll probably be after Christmas before we get the first one come in to dad."

This morning, we are welcomed by a phone call. Mom answers and I go back to sleep. About 10-20 minutes later mom comes in and says "Dad has news for you guys" Dad said the surgeon that put his TAH in came in earlier, he said "We put one person on the transplant list today." Both of mine and Brennans heart stop, "David, we put you back on the transplant list today, you can now get a heart at any time."

Of course, recovering from the surgery in 5 days is CRAZY, this is faster than Perry, he recovered in 2 weeks. Now today is a great day, go have a beer or if your under-aged grab a soda and have a great time today. I myself, am going to grab a beer. (Heh heh heh...)

Thanks for reading,

Rich