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.