No new is good news...I guess

I guess right now I'm going with no news is good news because not much is changing.  The unfortunate thing about that is that mom just doesn't feel good.  She's nauseous all day long and doesn't feel like getting out of bed much.  Dad has helped her walk around the driveway once yesterday and once again today, but that's the most exercise that she's been getting, then it's straight back to bed.  Some of our family from Greenville came up today and she didn't even feel up to getting out of bed when they came.  Dad got ahold of one of the nurses at UNC and they told him to take Mom to the ER to get a full work up and try to see why she's got so much nausea going on, but she's just not up to sitting in the ER waiting room long enough to get back and get the work up.  They're trying to come up to an alternative that could work, so I'll let you know...

I've been meaning to let you all know where we are with our year-long sacrifices.  As I reported before, Staci is giving up fast food, and Chick-Fil-A has been working its hardest to tempt her.  Dad and I have decided on what we're giving for a year.  Dad is giving up soft drinks, and man oh man does he love some caffeine-free Pepsi, and I'm giving up buying books for a year.  I know books aren't a dietary thing, but I love books and I love going to Barnes & Noble and browsing books and picking out just the right one to occupy my time for a few days (if it lasts me that long).  I don't know about Dad, but this has already been a challenge for me.

I wanted to thank those of you who added some quotes.  I didn't get quite as many as I had hoped, but I really liked Patti Maxwell's idea of reminding Mom of how many people love her, so I wrote on lots and lots of cups, "You are love by ______."  I can't remember how many I counted, but there were plenty to keep her going for a while.

Since we didn't get very many quotes, and most of them can be kind of lengthy anyway, we were thinking that if any of you would like to write a message to Mom, you can continue to comment on the blog and we'll print it out on labels and put the labels on the cups.  We'll see how that goes...