channing

My father had surgery yesterday and was under the knife for 3.5 hours. My mother called me at work and let me know what was going on. Derrick, Jason and I got to the hospital around 8:15ish. Not too long after, my father was carted down to the ICU to spend the night. We had a chance to see him and he was in good spirits; cracking jokes and demanding ice chips. The masses that were found near his pancreas we just infections, so they had to be drained. He will be spending at least a week in the hospital, and who knows how long to recover. Thanks for you prayers and support guys!

I am sitting in a lecture now, and it took the professor 1/2 hour to get everything up and running :/ So I’m sitting here channing. Actually I come to this class for comic relief for the week. I like the students in the class and it gives me something to do on a Saturday morning.

Speaking of Saturday morning. I was fortunate enough to be taken out to breakfast by an old friend. Had a good time catching up and joking around. Tre Kroner’s has a great breakfast. Oslo for me, and we split a maple/pecan danish and hazel nut danish, YUM and coffee, black.

Ok, I’m headed out now. Talk to you all later.

~Dru

Well I haven’t updated in a while, so I will begin starting with the new year. As usual I had a low key party at the house, good food and good times with friends. We rung in the new year and 2007 has been bitter sweet thus far. On January 2nd of this year my grandfather passed away. Now in God’s presence I wonder what he is up to. Family came in from all over. Grandma is a trooper though stronger that I, always positive and busy. Later that week I would head out to Duke to watch my fiancée’s white coat ceremony. Started teaching Sunday school this year, stepping down from my other responsibilities at CCP. It is hard work, and I give it up to teachers who make career out of educating.

I started back up at ESD again. It seems like I never left, except for the hand full of new people. I made it a point to take some initiative so thus far it has been a good ride.

This past weekend I flew out to Duke again to party with the finest PA class and spend time with Nicole. I got back in time for the second half of the not so Super Bowl and watched our Chicago Bears fall apart. Then to find out that my father has to have surgery sometime soon because of gull stones. It’s hard to see him in so much pain, not doing the things he enjoys. But hopefully it will be over soon.

Wedding planning has been fun for me. Thinking of ideas and talking about them with Nicole. Some people think Nicole is a cover and that I swing the other way. I assure you, my faithful readers that is not so I did however get my first manicure the other day and I must say impressive work those people did. I didn’t know my fingers could look like that.

Valentine’s Day is coming up quickly and I get to go to Durham for a Microsoft seminar for a day. Nice nice am I a planner or what. I’ll sign off for the moment. Thanks for stopping by.

~Dru