What a life we suffer through...

Well time for an update. Over the last 2 1/2 months life has been really tough! I had to watch my Grandmother die, literally. They took her off the respirator after being on Life Support for a Brain Hemorrhage. We watched 4 sicking, heart wrenching hours of a woman that we all love struggle to die. Mentally I barely made it through this situation. My Dr had to give me Anxiety meds just to keep my head on straight.

So just as I am getting home and been to work for 4 days I get in a horrible car accident. I was driving to work just like any other day. No speeding, nothing specially going on then all the sudden my back end swung around causing me to start spinning uncontrollably. My car then hit the median and start flipping over and over. It flipped a totaly of 4 times. I can remember almost ever second of this horrible event in my head right now. I smashed the side window out with my face and my shoulder was completely crushed with 3 separate fractures. They had to use the Jaws of Life to pry me out of the car. My legs were pinned and I was bleeding ALOT. Once I was pulled from the car I was CareFlown to Harris Methodist in DT Fort Worth.
They did the usual, CAT Scan, MRI, and full workup. After a few hours I was amazed when Harris Methodist wanted to discharge me from the ER. I was in amazing pain, could hardly breath because of bruised rips. They gave me pain meds and sent me home. I did not know what to do.
I came home with the help of my wife and parents. After about 2 days it was like I was a zombie. I could hardly breath. I was passing out. After awhile of this my wife and mother decided that we needed to go to another ER. We called ahead trying to get direct entrance because I was in no condition to wait in a waiting room. Medical Center of Lewisville met us at the door with a wheel chair and took us directly to an ER slot. They started xrays and exams. Immediately they noticed that not only did I have a broken should, bruised rips but also a bruised lung that was now filled with Pneumonia. You are supposed to have a blood oxygen level of 90 or higher and for 2 days mine was below 60! I am lucky not to have brain damage. But I spend 6 days in the hospital getting treatment.

So 2 days after I finally get out of the hospital and think hey life can only get better right? My mom breaks down. She had just lost her mom, thought she might have lost her son, and I think she realized it was time to get herself help. This was great for her but EXTREMELY tough on myself. I was barely getting by mentally and now one of the only 2 females I have ever trusted seemed gone for now. Having gone through this in the past I knew it would be tough.

But life goes on... It is tough and with my wife and kids we make it through. I want my mother to be with us everyday but hope she is getting they help she wants.

So please keep my family in mind. We have been though ALOT the last 2 months and are hanging on the last rung on the later. God we can only pray that you are with us and that this is all part of your plan. But email us if you wanna talk tbwilson.com@gmail.com

August 24th, 2009...

Well I am sitting here looking at the crap I am selling on ebay hoping it sells. My baby girl starts the 1st Grade tomorrow. Can I really be this old! LoL

But if you followed my blog and noticed a few "missing" entries I removed them. I am doing a bit better and have continued treatment. Trying to enjoy life no matter how mundane it seems or feels.

But both my parents got new cars and I am getting the itch SO bad. Jeff got a new 2009 Acura TL with the Technology Package and mom got a new 2009 Dodge RAM 1500 HEMI Quad Cab. Both of them are nice.

If things work our I guess I will get Naomi her new Honda Odyssey Minivan towards the end of the year. I want to get one right off a 2 year lease with low miles. Doing it this way saves over $11,000 (that is the depreciation if the first 2 years). I will get the extended 5 year 100K warranty and it will be like new. Plus at that price I can do a 48 month loan instead of a 60 month which hopefully will allow me to SOMEDAY get a car for myself. You know maybe a used Mitsubishi Evo X or Pontiac G8 GXP in a couple years will be affordable. Maybe?

But our trip up to Benton is only 2 weeks away. It will be a killer drive (12 hours) but worth it to see my aging Grandparents and get a ton of quality photographs with my Canon EOS Rebel XSi 12MP SLR.

But if anyone want to chat I have Google Talk, iChat/AOL, and Skype.

January 20th, 2009

Well there are alot of mixed emotions today. Many people are joyous and inspired. I personally am wary and worried. Lets all pray that our country is headed in the right direction. As a former military man and proud American I will get behind whomever is in the White House BUT hope that this new man can become a true Leader of the people.

But enough about politics. Like I have said before no one really reads this (except my cousin Melanie emailed me one time saying she read about something on my blog) so I will keep this update short.

The family is doing well. Anaya just had her 6th Birthday party! It was something else. She is such a girly, girl. She went and had a "Kiddy Makeover" at a place called Sweet and Sassy. Kinda like Libby Lue but they shut down all the Libby Lues. Anaya is cruising through Kindergarden and is on the verge of reading on her own. She loves to read "Fancy Nancy" books.

Dakota is a good boy. He takes good care of his little brother during the day and watches out for him. He is still alittle withdrawn at times and being the middle child I think is tough for him. I try to do things with just him so he knows he is special. I want all my kids to know that we love them unconditionally and will never play favorites. Boys are tougher to raise than girls (so far) because they are much more complex. All our kids seem to wear there feeling on there sleeve like I always have.

Chayton is doing so much better no that we have his allergies more under control. All the eczema was caused by allergies to foods. He is allergic to ALOT of stuff. We try to keep him away from all those foods. He can only eat FRESH vegetable, fruits, & meats. We have to try to stay away from flour (almost anything pre-made has flour or grains), & nuts. Since we found this out his condition has been much more manageable. Other than that Chayton is a funny, lively little boy. He walks around throwing the little football at everyone trying to get someone to play football. It is so funny when football comes on TV he stops then sits right down in front of the TV then starts yelling, "FOOTBALL" and clapping his hands! I got him started off right early. He is the next Tony Romo.

But Naomi & I are doing well also. A new year has begun and we are trying to keep going just like everyone else. The economy and money issues are always an issue but we make it through. God willing if Naomi and I can stay employed in this Recession then everything might be OK. For now we live everyday as a new day and just keep pushing forward. I sure hope everyone else is getting by. With the events of today I will be praying for everyone and our nation.

Merry Christmas! Blogging from the TREE!

Well the hub-bub is over and the kids are playing with all there toys. It was a good Christmas, but like many people not as extravagant as the past. We got Anaya & Dakota iPod Nano's so they can join Daddy & Mommy in the Apple revolution. Everything we own is Apple now. I buckled to the pressure and got Dakota this HUGE robot dinosaur that he has been begging for for months. I probably should not have got it because it cost ALOT but when we took him to see Santa at the Southlake Town Square that was the only thing he asked for. By then the things was sold out EVERYWERE so I have to have it overnighted from Walmart.com.
But Naomi got me a new 32in HDTV for the bedroom a couple of weeks ago so that was my present. I got her the NEW Verizon Wireless Blackberry Storm and some accessories (also a few weeks ago) and that was her present. We are so bad at keeping secrets from each other so we just give our presents when we get them.
But here is too the coming year and I hope everyone had a good Christmas. Remember at least you are hopefully with family and that is what REALLY matters. So in the words of Tiny Tim, "God Bless Us EVERY One."

The last few weeks...

Well the last few weeks have been a rocky road. There have been quite a few things that have effected our entire family. My mom was tested for Lung Cancer because of on-going pneumonia and her medicine that is known to cause Lung issues including Cancer. The problem is that the medication is one of the few that helps her severe Rheumatoid Arthritis. But I find it amazing that in a day were we can clone sheep and do other amazing medical things that a Dr cannot tell you definitively whether you have Cancer or not. She has to go back in 3 months to see if any of the small nodules grow. So right now we wait and worry. If only she would quite smoking. But like someone pointed out the damage has been done so quitting now if almost meaningless.

But because of all of these health issues mom has decided to to shut down the DayCare (she watches my 3 kids plus my brothers kid)as soon as possible which unfortunately is not until March 09. Recently my wife took a Manager job at her work which has her working Days 7am to 4pm. Before she used to work from 4pm to 10pm which worked great because we did not need a sitter. Since she moved to days we are defendant on my mom so changing is going to be hard. Naomi cannot even put in for a new position until March 2009 (6 months at current job) so as soon a possible she will try to move to either evening or midnights which is going to really suck!

But we try to get through and will make it. We have to. All I care about is putting food on the table and keeping a house for the kids. I mean we life pretty good compared to many people. We are blessed to have healthy kids and a loving family. Financials are trivial and are the least of our worries in life. If more people would focus on family and things then it would make things alittle better. I mean if the banks are failing how can they expect me to keep paying when they cannot even honor there own debt.

Party Time

Well we are having my oldest son's 4th birthday party today. I got him all nice a dressed up. Going to be quite a few people here including the kids good friends Leila & Katy Redman. I think the theme is Batman, the Dark Night. Dakota loves all the Super Hero's.

But life goes on down here in Texas. Still having back issues and they possible want to do surgery to fuse my L5-S1 vertebrae which is really scary to me. We will see what happens I guess.

Anaya had to go the Dr this morning. She has a severe ear infection in both ears and what the Dr said was a cold. She kept us up most of last night. They gave her 3 medications so maybe that will help.

But another week is down. Only 2 more months until 2009. Cannot wait. I am dying for some time off because I already used almost all of my vacation time this year.

Father & Son

Been playing around with Photoshop trying to get better at photo editing. I really like this effect on this photo I took of my little bro and his son.