Dad Update: Houston - We Have an Answer!!!!

After the doctors found blood in dad's stool last week, they discharged him from the hospital on Thursday and scheduled an upper and lower GI scope for today. After doing the upper GI this morning, his doctor came out and told mom that they had found the problem: a bleeding ulcer.

This explains where his blood has been going and his overall tiredness. He hasn't complained of any heartburn or discomfort in his stomach, but we've always known he is a tough old bastard!

He is currently in the Phillips County Hospital and will be there for a few days until his blood levels come back to a normal range and they get his ulcer medications figured out. We are very relieved to know it is something that is so easily treatable.

Thank God!!!

Dad Update - Thursday

After quite a few tests, the doctors have an idea of what is wrong with dad - he has blood in his stool. They think he will probably get to go home on Friday and then he has an appointment for an upper and lower GI scope on Tuesday to "see what they can see."

He is feeling good and had a blood tranfusion on Wednesday so we're hoping his blood levels stay up until they figure out what is causing the blood in his stool.

Thanks again for your thoughts and prayers.

Dad Back In The Hospital

My dad was admitted to the Phillips County hospital this afternoon with a low hemoglobin (blood) count. A normal range for a man his age should be above 13 and his is currently 8.4. He had two pints of blood on Friday night/Saturday morning and was back up to almost 10, but it is back down - and they don't know why.

His doctor said they wanted him in the hospital to do a series of tests (Dad said they drew a ton of blood!) and for a transfusion. So keep him in your prayers.

On the flip side, he had a follow-up appt. with his cardiologist and cardiac surgeon on Tuesday and his heart is doing great!

Now, if we can just figure out what is causing this low blood level. It is anemia? Is he bleeding internally? Is he having kidney issues? It is something worse? I'll be glad when they get test results tomorrow.

Prayers please!!!

Monarch

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A photo taken by my wife, Dana at my parents house on 9/19/09. They have a HUGE butterfly bush that was filled with a wide variety of butterflys and moths.

Garden Spider

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A cool photo of a cool spider at my parent's house in Logan,Kansas.

Jackson's Year in Pictures

This is the video I put together for Jackson's 9th birthday. Enjoy. We posted it on YouTube

Flock for blogging

I'm showing students just how easy it is to blog with Flock. Check out flock at http://www.flock.com

Blogged with the Flock Browser

The fossil diggers

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This is a photo taken in May at Monument Rocks (the Keystone Gallery) where Dana and Jackson joined Michelle and Thane for a day of fossil digging.

White House 2.0

Here's a blog post from the White House that gives you some great links to various social networking sites that the White House is using to communicate with the American public. Nice to see!!!

I especially like the Flickr photostream.


The White House - Blog Post - WhiteHouse 2.0

Just lost some respect for Discovery Channel Networks

Discovery Communications is going to re-do its cable channel for kids - DiscoveryKids - into a commercial for Hasbro toys. What was once a good company and great cable channel (plus all of the other Discovery channels), is selling out to advertisers.

Not good for children's television offerings.

Here's the article from Advertising Age:

Funny Facebook Video

Ok, here's your Tuesday afternoon chuckle!!!

Testing How Easy it is to Blog!!!!

I'm showing a few folks on just how easy it is to blog.

Online Portfolios

There are many thoughts as to how you should "show off your skills" when in the job market. Our college students today should be touting their skills in a Web 2.0 world - they live on Facebook - now they can show these skills to potential employers!

Resumes in a Web 2.0 world | Education IT | ZDNet.com

One of the coolest things I've seen in awhile....

March Madness in Ad Spending

A new report out today comparing the NCAA championship tournament to other "big-time" sporting events shows that the NCAA championship game is the second most expensive sporting event to advertise on. The number one? The Super Bowl.

The average price that CBS is getting during this year's NCAA Championship Game for a 30 second ad???

$1.2 Million!!!!!!!!

Here's the link to the article.

The beginning of the end????

Here's a 1981 news story about how newspapers were beginning their presence on the "web" - just 28 years later and the same San Francisco papers are having a hard time staying in business.....

RSS in Plain English

I love the "In Plain English" videos on YouTube. They do a great job. Here are a couple of my favorites that I use in many of my classes and presentations.

We Kan Powerpoint

Here is the slideshow regarding PowerPoint and presentation tips I gave at the We Kan! conference on March 24, 2009.

We Kan Powerpoint

View more presentations from Andy Stanton.

We Kan! Web 2.0 presentation

Here is the slideshow presentation I gave to the We Kan! conference on March 24, 2009 regarding web 2.0 and tourism.

We Kan! Web 2.0 presentation

View more presentations from Andy Stanton.

Another use of technology!!!!TwitterCOP

Glad to see that public safety officials are using Twitter - another great way to communicate quickly with a target public.

Police departments keeping public informed on Twitter - CNN.com