Natural or Not?

For the past 10 years (or so) I have been coloring my hair - or I should say I have paid to have it done. This past October I had an important birthday - the one where you become eligible for medicare. Anyway I decided to embrace my age and go natural. I honestly had no idea what it would look like. It is not as grey as I thought it might be, but I am having a hard time adjusting. The picture on the left was taken this month, the one on the right when we were in Hawaii last year. I love red hair and most people thought it was my natural color, but it was getting expensive and I really want to accept myself as I am - even though I know I need to lose weight - another subject for another day. I thought by putting the two hair colors side by side it might help me to accept it, but I'm not sure. OK, ladies what do you think? I say ladies because you know men just don't get it.

Tom is Home

We just came home from the hospital. The name of Tom's surgery was a Femoropopliteal Bypass. He has an incision of about 15 or 20 inches on his right leg that was glued together. Amazing what they can do. He will be using a walker for awhile, but knowing Tom it won't be long before he is going to a ballgame. We are planning to go to a wedding in CA the end of the month, so we're hoping he will feel like it. Thanks for your prayers

Tom's Surgery

Just a quick update. Tom's surgery was successful but he had to spend the night in the recovery room because there were no rooms available. This morning they are moving him to a room and I am getting ready to go to the hospital. He may be released today or tomorrow.

News about Tom

I am going to try to start posting more regularly. Tom is going in for surgery tomorrow. He will be having a bypass because of a blockage in his right leg. He had the same surgery on his left leg about 6 years ago. It was called a femoral by-pass. He will probably be spending the night and come home Saturday.

Last Saturday he had a great day. He got to see





Tom has been a baseball fan all his life. His two favorite teams are the Los Angeles Angels and the Atlanta Braves. We have been to a lot of games and visited ball fields when vacationing but this was a special day. Our next door neighbor, Roberto Mejia is a professional baseball player who has played for the Rockies and I believe St. Louis. Since he has lived next door to us (about 3 years) he has played in a Mexican league. Right now he is not playing but adding a room on to his house. He is from the Dominican and knows just about all the Dominican players in the MLB - well, maybe not all, but a lot. He and Tom went to Phoenix last Saturday to an Angels Spring Training game and he got to go to the players locker room. Going down in the elevator he was among a group of Dominicans and the elevator operator ask if they had passes. Roberto told him they were Vladimers' family (his brother was in the group). Tom was in the middle and the guy said "What about him?". Roberto said, "Oh, he's a distant cousin."




Of course he also got an autographed ball and told Vladimer he was going to come visit him in the Dominican. Today Tom and Roberto are going to a Colorado Rockies game here in Tucson. He says he is going Saturday after having surgery tomorrow but we'll see.