on with the story...

Ok so i am back,  all 3 of my kids were always happy, we didn't always have money and sometimes we struggled, but we stuck together no matter what...We were the 4 musketeers.

Things weren't working out too well in Texas so i met what i thought was Mr. Right and we ended up moving to New Mexico, well he turned out to be Mr. Wrong, but we stayed in New Mexico anyway.

In May of 2002 Michael got really sick and after a couple of hospitalizations, they sent us to Denver Children's Hospital, he went into liver failure and they put him on the waiting list for a transplant, Michael was 13 and had  his 14th birthday in the hospital.  He looked at me one day and asked me, " Mom, am I gonna die"  and i just knew that he wasn't so i said, " Baby, God didn't bring us this far just to let you die" And i was so not scared there, I just knew he was gonna be alright, even the doctors and nurses would tell me, that i was such a strong person, well that's because strong was the only choice i had...EVER.

So on September 4, 2002 he got his transplant, I still remember they told me, he will be out for 24 hours, but when i went to the recovery room he was wide awake...they had tubes everywhere and iv's. They had his hands strapped down so he couldn't pull out the tubes so he made a motion with his hand like he wanted to write, he couldn't talk because he had a tube down his throat.  So i gave him a pencil and i held the notepad, on it, he wrote, "WALK" i told him you cant walk right now, so he wrote, "DRINK" i told him no again, he wrote, "ICE" and again i had to tell him no, so he turned the pencil sideways and broke it with his thumb, and I knew he was gonna be ok for sure, then.

We ended up getting to go home in October and back to Critter and Bethany, it was great.

Life was good, we didn't have alot, but we had each other.

So the next summer around August of 2003, my sister Judy who lives in Texas, kept telling me when we would talk on the phone, " You need to come down and meet my neighbor, he is so cute and so sweet"  so finally I gave in and me and the kids loaded up for one of our many road trips that we took to Texas......I'll end here but you'll find out what happened with the neighbor, if you tune in tomorrow......see ya then!