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Tonight my family and I are eating hamburgers for a good cause.  20 year old Andre Lampkin, a former football standout at LD BELL High School, is fighting to stave off the loss of his arms and legs to bacterial meningitis and the Bell Booster club has set up a charity dinner to raise funds for the treatment. As the parent of a soon-to-be Bell Football player, I can only imagine what the family is going through and I hope and pray this young man recovers.
You can read more here.

You know, I used to do a new pic every Wednesday on my old blog/live journal and so today, I thought I might post this little gem from my recent golf outing.

Lovely Maria Sotolongo and her new baby, Ysabel, the attractive Megan Henderson and the “I’m just happy to be here-let’s see how straight I can stand” Todd Carruth at the Roy Williams Safety Net Foundation Golf Tournament at The Tribute golf course.

Got a call back from the vet today. No cancer for Jordan! How about that? He still has a lump on his butt that I need to get removed but I can do that with a weed wacker or a pair of pliers. I’m kidding, people. I would at least give him a beer first. Kidding again!

The vet wants to do a combo teeth cleaning/lump removal and bump up my monthly doggie health care plan to 21.95 for 12 months. Jordan, you are getting to be more expensive than my kids.

Jordan and Pippin when they were puppies.

So, I have two dogs; Jordan and Pippin. They are brothers, twins if you will, just like my sons. . (I had 3 dogs but the ex got the tiny one in the divorce) Anyway, over the past couple of years, Jordan has had some fatty tumors develop on his chest. You know, no big deal, they aren’t painful and they aren’t bothering him. Well, now he’s got a new one on his butt. In fact, I though it was his anal gland/sack

and so I took him to the vet this weekend. Turns out, they think he might have cancer and they had to do a biopsy and send it off to the lab to confirm.

You know, i never really think about pets  getting cancer and now I am having to balance the cost of treatment versus the quality of life (if it’s spread) and exactly how to handle all this with the boys.

Now there is still a small chance that it may be benigh but may I just take this opportunity to say that cancer sucks.

Hey there. Yes, I am still alive. Just had a really busy week plus I had to convince Google that my site was virus free. To top it all off, today is my birthday and when I walked into FOX this morning, there was cake waiting for me and about 10 birthday greetings in my work IM. Very nice! In fact, I already had a pretty good “birthday” golf outing yesterday at the Roy WIlliams charity golf tournament. Lots o’ goodies including a Reebok bag and shirt and hat and some “bed head” products and golf balls and t-shirts and free vitamin water- It was awesome! Course we had about 85 mph winds yesterday and so the actual golf playing was not so awesome. Planning on having dinner with my family tonight and I am SO going to go see IRONMAN this weekend. I AM IRONMAN!