Okay so all those who are in for Sunday my only time constraint is that I need to be at my niece's play at 2 pm. So I can visit before before 130 or after 530.
Barbara--my daughter just called telling me all about your visit & the goodies!
Then she informed me that she is expected to return to the RCU Monday afternoon around 2 PM! So I expect she'll call me at work after lunch before they transfer her back. Roommate will be there for quite some time with her rehab.
I can't thank you ladies enough for everything you've done to reach out to the girls!
YEA, for your daughter Tracy, I am so glad for her. I talked to my son today and was telling him what was going on. He told me that they will probably after the girls are better, see what they can do, if they can do everything that is required them to do the Navy will keep them. So good luck to your daughter. Well at lease the girls will not be lonely. LOL
Tracy we do have a great bunch of moms here, we are very lucky to have all of us.
How is your cold?
Hi ladies, going to visit Samantha tomorrow for mom and daughter lunch should be fun. Stephen still wating for his orders and he is feeling a little better with his stones, has a doctor appt. Tue., he is off this weekend. Have a great end of the day and enjoy your Sunday.
Did everyone have a nice weekend? I had a really nice lunch with my daughter. Talked to Stephen for around 2 hours, that was really nice. Still waiting for his orders but he is feeling better and has a doctor appointment tomorrow. He also put in for his leave and waiting to hear on that. That boy is waiting for a lot of answers hope he gets them soon. Have a great Monday!
LOL I will not ask! He does feel better so that is good not so much on pain pills anymore. He said he is going use to the pain. YUK! Cross your toes too, I would love for him to come home, he has not been home in two years.
Thanks Annie I hope so too. So are you riding your bike with this nice weather?
Hi Michelle, It is the 20th at Barb's I think, I will not be there I will be on a airplane going to Florida. Someone will have to post everything on here so I can catch up.
LOL Ladies I think you are all the best! Sounds like fun Annie. I use to ride when I was younger have not been on a motorcycle in years. WOW, that is a lot of bikes. My friends ride when the toys for tots comes around.
Waiting on a call from daughter--they were sending her to base today for an independent assessment under another ortho dr. RCU wants her to stay at VAMC until she gets the smaller leg cast & out of this long one. Mainly because they don't have the equipment, etc... and they don't want to risk a fall especially since they won't provide a wheelchair for outside for chow, etc...
Her liasons tell her she's staying at the VA--the VA drs. say nope you going! So she's a little frustrated--not to mention they are still checking out the gallbladder too! They also told her she'll finish & go--no PIR--she'll stay in her original division! YEAH! since she already had the photo's ordered, etc...
Only talked briefly with "V" the other day--seems to be in good spirits!
My baby girl turns 22 next week on the 16th... Not sure what we are going to do there--if we get confirmation that she'll be there for the next 3 weeks-&-maybe if they keep her at the VA over Thanksgiving--we could make a trip up for the long weekend & take her favorite foods! LOL Otherwise it'll be another quick trip --but will drive it this time with at least two of us going!
Tracy, well you are learning about the Navy, they can never make up there minds or it is hurry up and wait. I know everything will work out for her. Tell her this is the way the Navy is. LOL When is V's mom coming to see her?
Cathy, sounds like fun. To spend anytime with them is wonderful. Next time we are together remind me and I will tell you why my family will never ride bikes with me again. Yes get that passport ready. Mine has been overseas around two years now and all I can say is have skype, that is the only way I get to see my son and it is great. We talked two hours the other day and cost us nothing. Just love it. When he first got to Italy he took his computer outside and was showing us the base. LOL
Deb
I haven't heard back from her mom--and I didn't ask her--I'll see what I can find out after my child returns from this outside excursion. She's been gone several hours & I'm trying to be patient to wait for her call!
Oh & my brother was NUC for 6 years--I remember. You know nothing & they tell you NOTHING! LOL
Passport--Got mine--when she was going to Europe on a school trip--who do you think tagged along! LOL We did Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; & London, England!
Cathy--good luck on the bikes--I couldn't do that! I would end up in a cast! LOL
Tracy you area world traveler, that sounds great. I have been to Longon and England and we just came back from Europe in May and June seeing my son. We started off in Paris, then Naples, and then Rome, it was the best trip and I had a whole 10 days with Stephen we where there for 14 days. Well let me know when you hear from your daughter. Ok, so you know about the military, I am thinking they are all the same. LOL
Barbara, May I please come to the pizza party? Will send a friend request.
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Have a great time Paula! Barb I am sending you a friend and what can we bring.
My car decided to have an issue this past weekend so I never made it out to visit the girls. Tracy what is the status on your daughter? And how late are visiting hours on Saturday? I am at the USO on Sunday if anyone is downtown and wants to stop by.
Worth the read...all the way to the bottom. To all wh have served, Thank you. Enjoy your Vetrens Day.
I Was a Sailor Once...
*** I liked standing on the bridge wing at sunrise with salt spray in my face and clean ocean winds whipping in from the four quarters of the globe - - the ship beneath me feeling like a living thing as her engines drove her swiftly through the sea.
*** I liked the sounds of the Navy - the piercing trill of the boatswains pipe, the syncopated clangor of the ship's bell on the quarterdeck, the harsh squawk of the 1MC, and the strong language and laughter of sailors at work.
*** I liked Navy vessels -- nervous darting destroyers, plodding fleet auxiliaries and amphibs, sleek submarines and steady solid aircraft carriers.
*** I liked the proud names of Navy ships: Midway, Lexington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Coral Sea, Antietam, Valley Forge - - memorials of great battles won and tribulations overcome.
*** I liked the lean angular names of Navy "tin-cans" and escorts - - Barney, Dahlgren, Mullinix, McCloy, Damato, Leftwich, Mills, Stickell, Noa, Paul, Coontz, T.C. Hart, Glover - - mementos of heroes who went before us. And the others - - San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles, St. Paul, and Chicago - - named for our cities.
*** I liked the tempo of a Navy band blaring through the topside speakers as we pulled away from the oiler after refueling at sea.
*** I liked Liberty Call and the spicy scent of a foreign port.
*** I even liked the never-ending paperwork and all-hands working parties as my ship filled herself with the multitude of supplies, both critical and mundane in order to cut ties to the land and carry out her mission anywhere on the globe where there was water to float her.
*** I liked sailors, officers and enlisted men from all parts of the land, farms of the Midwest, small towns of New England, from the cities, the mountains and the prairies, from all walks of life. I trusted and depended on them as they trusted and depended on me - for professional competence, for comradeship, for strength and courage. In a word, they were "shipmates"; then and forever.
*** I liked the surge of adventure in my heart, when the word was passed: "Now set the special sea and anchor detail - all hands to quarters for leaving port," and I liked the infectious thrill of sighting home again, with the waving hands of welcome from family and friends waiting pier side.
*** The work was hard and dangerous; the going rough at times; the parting from loved ones painful, but the companionship of robust Navy laughter, the "all for one and one for all" philosophy of the sea was ever present.
*** I liked the serenity of the sea after a day of hard ship's work, as flying fish flitted across the wave tops and sunset gave way to night.
*** I liked the feel of the Navy in darkness -- the masthead and range lights, the red and green navigation lights and stern light, the pulsating phosphorescence of radar repeaters - they cut through the dusk and joined with the mirror of stars overhead. And I liked drifting off to sleep lulled by the myriad noises large and small that told me that my ship was alive and well, and that my shipmates on watch would keep me safe.
*** I liked quiet mid-watches with the aroma of strong coffee -- the lifeblood of the Navy permeating everywhere.
*** And I liked hectic watches when the exacting minuet of haze-gray shapes racing at flank speed kept all hands on a razor edge of alertness.
*** I liked the sudden electricity of "General quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations," followed by the hurried clamor of running feet on ladders and the resounding thump of watertight doors as the ship transformed herself in a few brief seconds from a
peaceful workplace to a weapon of war -- ready for anything.
*** And I liked the sight of space-age equipment manned by youngsters clad in dungarees and sound-powered phones that their grandfathers would still recognize.
*** I liked the traditions of the Navy and the men and women who made them. I liked the proud names of Navy heroes: Halsey, Nimitz, Perry, Farragut, John Paul Jones and Burke. A sailor could find much in the Navy: comrades-in-arms, pride in self and country, mastery of the seaman's trade. An adolescent could find adulthood.
*** In years to come, when sailors are home from the sea, they will still remember with fondness and respect the ocean in all its moods - the impossible shimmering mirror calm and the storm-tossed green water surging over the bow. And then there will come again a faint whiff of stack gas, a faint echo of engine and rudder orders, a vision of the bright bunting of signal flags snapping at the yardarm, a refrain of hearty laughter in the wardroom and chief's quarters and mess decks.
*** Gone ashore for good they will grow wistful about their Navy days, when the seas belonged to them and a new port of call was ever over the horizon.
*** Remembering this, they will stand taller and say...
"I WAS A SAILOR ONCE AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN."
"Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think he can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction ... I served in the U. S. Navy"
...John F. Kennedy .
HEY MOMS!! Want to help feed Thanksgiving dinner to 200 recruits from Great Lakes? Villa Park VFW, 39 E. St. Charles Rd, Villa Park, IL 60181, is hosting. Show up after 8AM and help. Help serve, talk, laugh, and share your cell phone so they can call home. Sounds like fun to me!!!!
Pat that does sound like fun. Can we stay as long or as little as we want?? Maybe I will wake my daughter up so she can go with and meet a nice sailor boy!! LOL
Becky m, Yup, you just go and help where needed and stay as long or as little as you want. Good luck with the "sailor search" for your daughter!! hahahah!
Hi Chicago MOMS! You guys are always so BUSY! Pizza parties and the VFW dinner! Totally Awesome!
Well--the girls are still doing well at the VA --well at least as well as can be expected with their limitations!
Halee tells me that they are now providing craft items for them to work on--keeping them busy! She has one project almost done! She has 3 more weeks in the long cast and looks like I may be spending Thanksgiving in North Chicago! :-) So long as they don't change there mind--which is daily! LOL
So my plans will be driving in this time--so I can haul dinner in with me! & maybe bring one of her friends with me as well. My hubby--depends on whether his plant is working black Friday or not if he can go with me.
It's a glorious beautiful day here in PA...so I'm going to try and enjoy it--expecting today to be the "last" nice day as the freezing weather is forecast for the next week!
"V" mom is flying in to visit her on the 19th for two days and hopefully I will follow up with Thanksgiving dinner later that week.
Our visit is still dependent on whether they leave Halee at the VA -- RCU says she'd need a corpman as an assistant during her time with a long leg cast--and we know thats not going to happen! So the battle is between the RCU & the drs. wanting to discharge her from the VA.
She also made contact with one of her fellow sailor's from her division and he's in A school @ Great Lakes--so he may get to visit her!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MICHELLE!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! AND MANY MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Girls @ the VA update--my daughter went back to the RCU today sniff-sniff. It was harder on her then it was me! V--will be there a couple of months due to her injuries & her mom is expected in this next weekend for a visit!
She borrowed a cellphone & sent me this picture--pretty much sums it up! She's standing with her crutches to take the picture. Still non-weight bearing. I actually think it's probably best for her--she needs to get back in to a routine! They did recast her again today--Cast #3! And made it about 2 inches shorter--so hopefully that helps her out more with the rack and all.
The hard part is that tomorrow is Her Birthday! "22" and all plans to go to Chicago for Thanksgiving is out the window now! Right now all she's worried about is getting her stuffed penguin sent home!
Tracy
Coco
Nov 4, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 5, 2010
AmeliaGrumma (RCU)
Then she informed me that she is expected to return to the RCU Monday afternoon around 2 PM! So I expect she'll call me at work after lunch before they transfer her back. Roommate will be there for quite some time with her rehab.
I can't thank you ladies enough for everything you've done to reach out to the girls!
You are all a Blessing!
Tracy
Nov 5, 2010
AmeliaGrumma (RCU)
Nov 5, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Tracy we do have a great bunch of moms here, we are very lucky to have all of us.
How is your cold?
Hi ladies, going to visit Samantha tomorrow for mom and daughter lunch should be fun. Stephen still wating for his orders and he is feeling a little better with his stones, has a doctor appt. Tue., he is off this weekend. Have a great end of the day and enjoy your Sunday.
Paula one straw good one!!!
Nov 6, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 8, 2010
Pat L. in IL
Nov 8, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 8, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 8, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 8, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Hi Michelle, It is the 20th at Barb's I think, I will not be there I will be on a airplane going to Florida. Someone will have to post everything on here so I can catch up.
LOL Paula, you are trouble!
Nov 9, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 9, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 9, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 9, 2010
AmeliaGrumma (RCU)
Waiting on a call from daughter--they were sending her to base today for an independent assessment under another ortho dr. RCU wants her to stay at VAMC until she gets the smaller leg cast & out of this long one. Mainly because they don't have the equipment, etc... and they don't want to risk a fall especially since they won't provide a wheelchair for outside for chow, etc...
Her liasons tell her she's staying at the VA--the VA drs. say nope you going! So she's a little frustrated--not to mention they are still checking out the gallbladder too! They also told her she'll finish & go--no PIR--she'll stay in her original division! YEAH! since she already had the photo's ordered, etc...
Only talked briefly with "V" the other day--seems to be in good spirits!
My baby girl turns 22 next week on the 16th... Not sure what we are going to do there--if we get confirmation that she'll be there for the next 3 weeks-&-maybe if they keep her at the VA over Thanksgiving--we could make a trip up for the long weekend & take her favorite foods! LOL Otherwise it'll be another quick trip --but will drive it this time with at least two of us going!
I'll keep you all posted!
Tracy
Nov 9, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Cathy, sounds like fun. To spend anytime with them is wonderful. Next time we are together remind me and I will tell you why my family will never ride bikes with me again. Yes get that passport ready. Mine has been overseas around two years now and all I can say is have skype, that is the only way I get to see my son and it is great. We talked two hours the other day and cost us nothing. Just love it. When he first got to Italy he took his computer outside and was showing us the base. LOL
Nov 9, 2010
AmeliaGrumma (RCU)
I haven't heard back from her mom--and I didn't ask her--I'll see what I can find out after my child returns from this outside excursion. She's been gone several hours & I'm trying to be patient to wait for her call!
Oh & my brother was NUC for 6 years--I remember. You know nothing & they tell you NOTHING! LOL
Passport--Got mine--when she was going to Europe on a school trip--who do you think tagged along! LOL We did Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; & London, England!
Cathy--good luck on the bikes--I couldn't do that! I would end up in a cast! LOL
Nov 9, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 9, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 9, 2010
Pat L. in IL
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Nov 9, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 10, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 10, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 11, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 11, 2010
MissMySailor
Nov 11, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 11, 2010
Coco
My car decided to have an issue this past weekend so I never made it out to visit the girls. Tracy what is the status on your daughter? And how late are visiting hours on Saturday? I am at the USO on Sunday if anyone is downtown and wants to stop by.
Nov 11, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 11, 2010
becky m
I Was a Sailor Once...
*** I liked standing on the bridge wing at sunrise with salt spray in my face and clean ocean winds whipping in from the four quarters of the globe - - the ship beneath me feeling like a living thing as her engines drove her swiftly through the sea.
*** I liked the sounds of the Navy - the piercing trill of the boatswains pipe, the syncopated clangor of the ship's bell on the quarterdeck, the harsh squawk of the 1MC, and the strong language and laughter of sailors at work.
*** I liked Navy vessels -- nervous darting destroyers, plodding fleet auxiliaries and amphibs, sleek submarines and steady solid aircraft carriers.
*** I liked the proud names of Navy ships: Midway, Lexington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Coral Sea, Antietam, Valley Forge - - memorials of great battles won and tribulations overcome.
*** I liked the lean angular names of Navy "tin-cans" and escorts - - Barney, Dahlgren, Mullinix, McCloy, Damato, Leftwich, Mills, Stickell, Noa, Paul, Coontz, T.C. Hart, Glover - - mementos of heroes who went before us. And the others - - San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles, St. Paul, and Chicago - - named for our cities.
*** I liked the tempo of a Navy band blaring through the topside speakers as we pulled away from the oiler after refueling at sea.
*** I liked Liberty Call and the spicy scent of a foreign port.
*** I even liked the never-ending paperwork and all-hands working parties as my ship filled herself with the multitude of supplies, both critical and mundane in order to cut ties to the land and carry out her mission anywhere on the globe where there was water to float her.
*** I liked sailors, officers and enlisted men from all parts of the land, farms of the Midwest, small towns of New England, from the cities, the mountains and the prairies, from all walks of life. I trusted and depended on them as they trusted and depended on me - for professional competence, for comradeship, for strength and courage. In a word, they were "shipmates"; then and forever.
*** I liked the surge of adventure in my heart, when the word was passed: "Now set the special sea and anchor detail - all hands to quarters for leaving port," and I liked the infectious thrill of sighting home again, with the waving hands of welcome from family and friends waiting pier side.
*** The work was hard and dangerous; the going rough at times; the parting from loved ones painful, but the companionship of robust Navy laughter, the "all for one and one for all" philosophy of the sea was ever present.
*** I liked the serenity of the sea after a day of hard ship's work, as flying fish flitted across the wave tops and sunset gave way to night.
*** I liked the feel of the Navy in darkness -- the masthead and range lights, the red and green navigation lights and stern light, the pulsating phosphorescence of radar repeaters - they cut through the dusk and joined with the mirror of stars overhead. And I liked drifting off to sleep lulled by the myriad noises large and small that told me that my ship was alive and well, and that my shipmates on watch would keep me safe.
*** I liked quiet mid-watches with the aroma of strong coffee -- the lifeblood of the Navy permeating everywhere.
*** And I liked hectic watches when the exacting minuet of haze-gray shapes racing at flank speed kept all hands on a razor edge of alertness.
*** I liked the sudden electricity of "General quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations," followed by the hurried clamor of running feet on ladders and the resounding thump of watertight doors as the ship transformed herself in a few brief seconds from a
peaceful workplace to a weapon of war -- ready for anything.
*** And I liked the sight of space-age equipment manned by youngsters clad in dungarees and sound-powered phones that their grandfathers would still recognize.
*** I liked the traditions of the Navy and the men and women who made them. I liked the proud names of Navy heroes: Halsey, Nimitz, Perry, Farragut, John Paul Jones and Burke. A sailor could find much in the Navy: comrades-in-arms, pride in self and country, mastery of the seaman's trade. An adolescent could find adulthood.
*** In years to come, when sailors are home from the sea, they will still remember with fondness and respect the ocean in all its moods - the impossible shimmering mirror calm and the storm-tossed green water surging over the bow. And then there will come again a faint whiff of stack gas, a faint echo of engine and rudder orders, a vision of the bright bunting of signal flags snapping at the yardarm, a refrain of hearty laughter in the wardroom and chief's quarters and mess decks.
*** Gone ashore for good they will grow wistful about their Navy days, when the seas belonged to them and a new port of call was ever over the horizon.
*** Remembering this, they will stand taller and say...
"I WAS A SAILOR ONCE AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN."
"Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think he can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction ... I served in the U. S. Navy"
...John F. Kennedy .
Nov 11, 2010
becky m
Nov 11, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
I don't know where Mary is, have not seen her in a while, maybe just busy!
Nov 11, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 12, 2010
ChitownPat
Nov 12, 2010
Coco
Thank you for sharing Becky that was definitely worth the read!
Nov 12, 2010
Pat L. in IL
Nov 12, 2010
becky m
Nov 12, 2010
Pat L. in IL
Nov 12, 2010
Pat L. in IL
Nov 13, 2010
AmeliaGrumma (RCU)
Well--the girls are still doing well at the VA --well at least as well as can be expected with their limitations!
Halee tells me that they are now providing craft items for them to work on--keeping them busy! She has one project almost done! She has 3 more weeks in the long cast and looks like I may be spending Thanksgiving in North Chicago! :-) So long as they don't change there mind--which is daily! LOL
So my plans will be driving in this time--so I can haul dinner in with me! & maybe bring one of her friends with me as well. My hubby--depends on whether his plant is working black Friday or not if he can go with me.
It's a glorious beautiful day here in PA...so I'm going to try and enjoy it--expecting today to be the "last" nice day as the freezing weather is forecast for the next week!
Take care,
Tracy
Nov 13, 2010
AmeliaGrumma (RCU)
Halee's craft box
Nov 13, 2010
AmeliaGrumma (RCU)
"V" mom is flying in to visit her on the 19th for two days and hopefully I will follow up with Thanksgiving dinner later that week.
Our visit is still dependent on whether they leave Halee at the VA -- RCU says she'd need a corpman as an assistant during her time with a long leg cast--and we know thats not going to happen! So the battle is between the RCU & the drs. wanting to discharge her from the VA.
She also made contact with one of her fellow sailor's from her division and he's in A school @ Great Lakes--so he may get to visit her!
Nov 13, 2010
AmeliaGrumma (RCU)
Nov 13, 2010
Pat L. in IL
Nov 15, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 15, 2010
AmeliaGrumma (RCU)
Girls @ the VA update--my daughter went back to the RCU today sniff-sniff. It was harder on her then it was me! V--will be there a couple of months due to her injuries & her mom is expected in this next weekend for a visit!
She borrowed a cellphone & sent me this picture--pretty much sums it up! She's standing with her crutches to take the picture. Still non-weight bearing. I actually think it's probably best for her--she needs to get back in to a routine! They did recast her again today--Cast #3! And made it about 2 inches shorter--so hopefully that helps her out more with the rack and all.
The hard part is that tomorrow is Her Birthday! "22" and all plans to go to Chicago for Thanksgiving is out the window now! Right now all she's worried about is getting her stuffed penguin sent home!
Tracy
Nov 15, 2010
Coco
Now that she is back at the RCU is she not allowed visitors? Is that why you are not coming for Thanksgiving?
Nov 15, 2010
MissMySailor
Nov 15, 2010
becky m
Nov 15, 2010
Debbie (Stephen's mom)
Nov 15, 2010
ChitownPat
Nov 16, 2010