Randy had a stroke!

             Well where to begin.....seems one evening Randy was fine and next moment Kristen said something is wrong with dad and said call 911.   And so it was he had had a stroke at the age of 49 to be 50 in two months.  Right after air lifted in helicopter to Orlando he was immediately given attention.  It was fast acting on doctors part and was very emotional for all of us.  Then later he begin to be told what had happened and if all who know Randy then you know he is a fighter...
          After it all was explained to him he got emotional and then listened and begin to  move forward and do all they had ask him to do.  Sooo much love and prayers went up  to our Heavenly Father to please let him make it through this and everyone surrounded him with love and support!  Dad rushed to hospital to give him a blessing before he was air lifted to Orlando. Todd also rushed to his side and know it was pretty emotional to watch his brother struggle to say just simple words as he did. It would be a scary thing to wake up one morning and to have to know you must relearn some things that before you took for granted!
        Emotions were high and so glad Jen was here.  Jen stuck right by his side and even taking off work to be near Randy and she was amazing with her support and working with Randy daily during this whole time!!! Helping him everyday learn to pronoun words and kept telling him how great he was doing and just how awesome he was!
          We all visited him at the hospital and of course worked hard to keep him in good spirits.  He had a bad headache alot at first and his speech was a problem plus he was crying alot but as each day came and went he made remarkable recovery.  We all were quite concerned at first and could not believe this could be happening but it did and after a couple days Randy started the process of learning and put his all into it and never gave up, he is a fighter and went to work doing all the doctors ask him to do plus even went beyond what was required.   Today he is near back to himself ,  working on improving in certain areas of course.   Soon he will be back to normal,  has plenty time, his work has given him plenty time off  and more than he will need cause he is doing so well!
  Today he is eating only healthy foods, dropping weight and he quit smoking six months ago and not even drinking soda.   He is totally forcused on losing weight and being healthy! A few pictures of him recouping. We are so proud of Randy and happy to know he is healing and showing signs of remarkable recovery!!


Randy recouping and ready to eat. 


                                
Brother and Sis enjoying a 5k a year ago.

 In Hospital and recovering.
Randy finally at home enjoying Kassie their dog.

funny stories of Savannah by the guy that drove our Trolley

 Our trolley guy was quite funny and told us the following stories"

     Buccaneers or pirates wore earrings and if  had one earring that ment they had been around world one time. Two and its two times, three and its three times. Said he didn't know if that was true or not and laughted.
     If a Buccaneer got drunk and passed out at the pug he was taken and put on a ship and when he woke he might be far from home and from his wife and children and may not even see his family again for years. Guess some of those guys were ok with that.ha!
    Why so much moss in the tree......well we were told the buccaneers used Spanish Moss  for stuffing their pillows but failed to realize that these little red bugs were inside the moss and thats where the saying got started " Don't let the bed bugs bite." ha!
    Another saying when ask where Savannah got its name he said this guy was out on the river with his daughter and she fell into the water and everyone started saying "Save Anna Save Anna."....so it was called Savannah!   He laughted and said thats not true he made it up! ha!

Found that the city of Savannah is made up of squares for the most part and in all there are 22 squares in the city.   We saw 17 of them.    Nice trip!                                                                       

Tales of My Siblings

 My brother Joe........ has a favorite saying and wanted to get it down before I forget it...
when all of us siblings get together Joe never fails using this statement sometime during the conversations .....
                          "Everyone should do what they want to do."

Roscoe.......Police called Roscoe's son and said Steve you got to tell your dad to start stopping at the Stop Signs.....seems that Roscoe feels if nothing is coming no need to stop. ha!😉 That a small town for you when your well known.ha!

Bump.....he said Nellie McCool who ran the neighborhood grocery store saw him pick up a pack of cizs on the ground and right when he started to put one in his mouth Nellie looked out her window and saw him and yelled " Bumper "and he dropped the ciz's and kept walking. Bump said back then neighbors watched out for each other and he never picked up another ciz. it was good that people cared back then.  Good job Bump! 😊

Donna....picked up this can off of shelf and thinking it was flour was in the process of making gravy and stirring it in the skillet when her eyes started watering and bothering her and Lillie our sister in law came in and said :
"what you doing?" and Donna said making gravy for dad.  She said show me what your using .....she reached up got the can and Lillie said Donna this is" Lye"....you could have poisoned the whole family!  To hear it today and Donna tell it its funny but really could have had a bad ending. YIKES!

Bump....said he was at ma's who is our gramma and looked in the refri and wanted ice cream....seeing this white stuff thought it was ice cream and turned out it was cottage cheese....disappointed he said so he never has liked cottage cheese since.

Lillie Roscoe's first wife was always looking out for me and my brother Bump.  Took us to the drive in theater many  times.  She taught me to drive a (YR)  Studebaker and even when i went off the road into a ditch she didn't yell at me but we got out and kept going! Thanks Lillie! She was always there for us kids.   She cared about us so this is my memories of her!

Donna...... (scary story)..... Donna's children were young , home asleep with their dad there.  She took a job driving from bank to bank on a midnight shift dropping off stuff, not knowing what was in the bag but felt it was important papers.   Well one evening she noticed some guy was following behind her on the road.  She turned he turned. Went up on highway and he did also.   This was scary,  as he continued to follow her she  kind of started to panic .....he kept her in his sight. As she would 
pull off at certain places thinking he would go ahead , he never did but would  pull off also and wait and continued to follow her.  Getting scared and thinking  maybe if speeded a policeman would stop her and help but none were in sight.   After awhile she decided to get  up on a double lane highway and he came up onto the ramp also and got beside her and she took a good look at his face.  By this  time she was totally in tears being so scared. She finally decided the only way to lose him was to cross over a four lane highway in front of a car so fast at the last min. and he could not  do same without wrecking.  She saw a ramp coming up ,  this was her only hope! he would not be able to make it across in time and it had to be at the last min. in order to lose him.  So waiting for the right  moment she quickly went across in front of another car at the last second to get off the ramp.  She said the man was so angry he layed on his horn!  She cryed a sigh of  relief ..next day she saw picture of this man on tv and he was wanted as a rapist of young women. WOW!!!!

Donna....this is a spiritual story..... Again Donna was out on a lonely road , likely again on the Bank route and her car stopped.... having trouble getting it to start this old man stopped and ask what he could do to help.....he pulled up the hood and looked inside and said get inside and start it up.  Donna did and it immediately started.   She got out to thank him and he was gone!  She never heard his car start up or see him leave. Strange Yes!   But I and she believe there are Angel's among us!

Bump... said the day came when it was time for him to leave on a bus cause he had just up and joined the Air Force. He said no one came to see him off but Don Clark.  Mom and Dad were not there .   He said it wasn't much a big deal cause we weren't a close net family but he never forgot it.  Don gave him some money for" just in case!"   Such good people!  I am not sure why my parents didn't show up but one day perhaps they will tell him and it will all be good.  I know he was disappointed and felt no one cared!

Hope to add more good stories here later. I hope!