It's been a while!

It's been too long since my last post......life has a way of rushing by. It's been a few weeks of rain (heavy at times) and sun. The trees are all leafed out and things are growing like crazy. I spend upwards of 6 hrs a week on the riding mower trying to keep things cut to a manageable level.

Last Wed. night I woke up with a stabbing pain in my upper left side. The pain got worse and finally around 3:00 a.m. Lorelei loads me in the car for a trip to the emergency room. We get there and I am feeling better. We sit in the parking lot for a few minutes and I decide we don't need to go in and pay the e-room fee, so back home we go (big mistake). I lay down in bed and no sooner closed my eyes than POW, more stabbing pain, this time it has moved more to my central lower abdomen. For the next 3 hrs, life is not good and I begin thinking the end is near.

We make it in to the doctor around 11:00 am and they suspect a kidney stone. They want to do a CT scan at the hospital to confirm. I say to the doctor that it needs to be right away because the District Track Meet is at 4:00. He gives me a look and mumbles something to the effect that I wouldn't be going to any track meet this day. I iterate the fact that I would be and he comes back with a schedule for a 1:30 test at the hospital. Great! The nurse gives me a shot of some pain stuff that will last for 4-6 hours and off we go to the hospital. Now what time do you think the 1:30 test would take place at the hospital? Yep.....you guessed it.....2:30. The test goes fast once I finally get in. A quick sandwich in the parking lot and Lorelei and I are off to the District Meet. We arrive and are walking into the meet when the phone rings. The diagnosis is one kidney stone has moved to my bladder and one more is in my kidney. So at least we know where the pain was coming from. So I have been getting lots of pampering from Lorelei.

Jon ran his heart out at the District Meet. He easily won the 1500.

Below....Jon easily leads the 1500 on his way to a State berth.


Jon's next race was the 400 and he was pitted against the fastest guy in 3A in the state of Oregon.
Jon pulled ahead on the final stretch but Austin came back and beat Jon by less than 2 tenths of a second. Here they are at the finish line.



These two young men are awesome competitors and just great kids. They enjoy competing against one another.



This race took everything Jon had. He still had the 800 meter run scheduled less than an hour away. Right after the 400, Jon was called to the awards podium to receive his medal for the 1500. Still feeling the effects from the last race he is helped onto the stand by the second place finisher.



This day Jon was not to recover to run the 800. He qualified for the State Meet in both the 1500 and the 400 meters. This Friday is prelims for the 400 and both the 400 and 1500 are run this Saturday. Jon was voted "Male Athlete of the District" by the coaches. That makes him runner of the year for our District in both Cross Country and Track!

All the pictures from this meet are here.