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7 Years Ago Today...

8/24/2020

 
On August 24, 2013 Madison had surgery for a very benign looking 'mass', 'lesion', a 'growth'. Her surgeon remains the Boss, at the top of his game. He's the surgeon who operates on other surgeons and their family members. While he's that good, he simply didn't know what he didn't know about chordoma. Fun Facts: Madison's surgeon in LA did spinal surgery on the father of the Chief of Orthopedic surgery at USC, and at a different Hospital. Huh! One of Madison's surgeons in Boston did the first successful penis transplant in the USA, and he's also one of the globally recognized chordoma experts, Dr Cetrulo. When he ask Madison which leg to use to sacrifice for a bone graft, I said "That one", pointing to Colleen's shin. When I'd read about Dr Cetrulo's success, I don't think it was deemed as a success by only just a thumbs-up pictured here. 

We don't know what we don't know about covid, except that wearing a mask or not shouldn't be a political statement of who you do or don't support. Thank you in advance for wearing a mask when you're in indoor spaces and close to others. We cannot afford to hope, and to speculate what we think we know all about... what we don't yet know enough about... covid. 

Seven years ago today Madison's mom's and I saw Madi on a ventilator.  

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To Quote Angela...

8/15/2020

 
... "Oh My God"

Madison's dog Bailey, cute as a button pictured below in November 2014, the OMG coming.


Everyone gets their fair share of junk mail; to be determined if there will be en Executive Order from the WH to eliminate zip codes.

I checked the mail yesterday, tossed the stack on my desk for another day... which is today. Pictured below, one of them caught my eye, pictured below.


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I don't recall ever ordering from them, but okay... worth a second look, then a third, and then what Angela said to me when I showed her... "Oh My God"
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Last week I stumbled on something I hadn't seen in years; many of Madison's Insta-gram pictures I don't recall ever seeing. This gem in her feed from October 2016... she wrote that it would be her only political post. If you haven't looked at madirose _ j (no spaces, so @madirose_j), you'll see some real treasures showcasing her bravery given what she was going through... while never losing her keen wit and wicked sense of humor.
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I love you and miss you too... every day Mad-dawg, and thanks for the card.

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