Couples Quality Time
Some couples like to ride bikes together…some travel…some sit on the couch and watch TV…but we in the Lazzari house spend quality time at Northwestern’s Emergency Room.
Brad has been in the ER twice in the last 2 weeks. He is better now (until I finish him off for good, of course.) Brad was treated for a stomach bug on Easter weekend and he was evaluated after he had a seizure last Friday. So…like how does one land in the hospital so often?? Dumb-bell-ness!- definition: 1)letting bad stomach pains and bathroom trips go for too long before telling your doctor
2) not taking your evening dose of anti-seizure medicine because you fall asleep on couch watching TV.
So, don’t get a case of dumb-bell-ness and pay attention to yourself.
On a cooler note, my old ladt momself went to see Britney Spears in concert this week.
Feeling BettER
April 2
So…the TV show ER has a series finale tonight and you know what I think— Good Riddens ‘you always make me cry and depress people show.’ There is a reason why I have stopped watching ER and tonight I got another dose of ‘boo-hooing’ Well, just a few seconds and then I moved on to my Payday candy bar!
So Brad had a test a few weeks ago and it was negative for leukemia. Woo Hoo!! We celebrated the happy news along with Matt’s 3rd birthday. Matt had a party at Pump It Up. It was great…Everybody- adults and kids had a fun time jumping around. However, there were a few elbow burns and bruises…but I am healing well.
Oh and poor Great-Grandma Elsie, she fell and had to get her hip replaced. I am telling you, if your last name is Lazzari, you are screwed.
We Love to Freeze
That is what we Chicagoans MUST like since we have been having a super long and cold winter. God Bless People’s Energy for keeping my house at a toasty 74 degrees. I love it!(and am paying up the wazoo as well…but TOTALLY worth it!)
But you see…we Lazzari’s LOVE to pay bills…especially medical bills. Matthew has recently cut his eye falling off a chair at Dunkin Donuts and required a trip to the ER for some very expensive glue. Followed the next week by having that crazy croup again. So he is following in his father’s footsteps of meeting his yearly health insurance deductible early out of the gate(but is doing and feeling totally fine now AND got accepted to our 1st choice of pre-schools).
And me…well I like to pay a different kind of bill…a restaurant bill!! That is a WAY better use of our funds. Especially since last week was Restaurant Week in Chicago. Brad and I ate steaks at David Burke’s Primehouse and Ruth’s Chris with all the other meat sinners on Ash Wednesday and a lenten Friday. And it was D-to-the-licious people. A way better way to stimulate the economy than hospital bills.
Brad is doing well. He has a bit of a cold/sinus infection but doesn’t everyone in the 606– zipcode region have one too?
Brad has been busy collecting loose change from his kind coworkers to donate to the Dr. Jessica Altman Research fund. He is very proud to help her to help others. There is info about her fund a few posts below this one.
Hope all your families are well and warm…if not, drop by and you can soak up some of my People’s Energy heat.
Mr. Bad Luck
I am tapping this message out from the comforts of my ‘heavenly bed’ here at the hotel with Brad and Matt in the bed next to me playing games,… which sounds like a normal night away from home..BUT… let me describe the past 24 hours of our fun Disney family vacation.
Brad had a seizure in the car on the way home from the Magic Kingdom. He was transported to a hospital called ‘Celebration Health’(where I think Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are board certified) because he displayed stroke-like symptoms(pretty scary, a bit like last stroke.) Brad spent the night there and had a few tests to determine what happened. The final outcome was a seizure and he is back on his anti-seizure medicine which he just stopped on Sunday as prescribed.
We were able to make our dinner reservation tonight and will finish our trip but in a very low key manner.
Please direct all prayers to the ‘Jackie Lazzari Saved Brad’s Life Again’ column and we will write more when we have better things to talk about.
Sledding time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Winter Fun - 1/19/09
Haven’t posted since before the holidays, hope everyone got what they wanted. I know Matt sure did! It was nice to spend time with family and friends. Tomorrow we leave for Disney, we all can’t wait to go. We’ll put up a couple of pics when we return, but for now I can’t wait to go somewhere and THAW OUT!!
Other than that, Matt went sledding, and he’s gone on a couple of trips to Chucky Cheese’s. Not sure who had more fun Matt or Grandpa Blue!
Brad
December 9th
Hello winter! Snowy and icy today. Sometimes I worry about Brad walking on the unshoveled sidewalks belonging to the SUPER LAZY people in Chicago. I have lived here my whole life (of 21 years(hee.hee…ok 25 years, ha..ha) ) and when it snows YOU GET OFF YOUR LAZY DUFF AND SHOVEL IT PEOPLE!!
Brad is doing well. He and Matt both have colds. But Matt made it more exciting by having croup.(not fun) Both are doing better and Brad will have a little chemo-boost this week.
We have been having a lot of fun lately taking advantage of our weekends in Wisconsin and staying overnight downtown(in a hotel, not the hospital this time.)
No major drama, which is nice, but there are still a few family parties ahead, so I am sure someone will step up to the plate and make things exciting. Time to go, but take a look outside and if you have snow>>SHOVEL IT!
November 14
Well. Things HAVE been going well. Mostly.
Brad is still cancer free as his bone marrow was checked last week. That is ALWAYS welcome news. Now our doctor is adjusting his chemo to keep his white cell and platelet levels from dropping. I am sure she will have this all figured out ASAP, but for now Brad feels good.
OK…now for some interesting news. Since Brad’s return to work, Matt and I have been finding many new places to eat in Greektown(Brad’s office is located there and Jackie’s Taxi Service delivers Brad to work a few times a week) So if you are in Greektown, try Meli Cafe(Jackson & Halsted) for breakfast. Fantastic Menu and not a greasy spoon.
Our good friends had a baby and Brad got to visit them in Prentice, which was nice since he is usually the ‘one in the bed’ there. I’m sure our insurance company is breathing a sigh of relief that he was a ‘visitor’ this time.
Matt is doing well. He has a serious crush on June from the Little Einsteins. She is able to get him to eat, behave, and do whatever she wants…..Gee, if only Brad had someone like that in his life.
Jessica Altman Research Fund
Jessica Altman is our fabulous doctor. She is saving lives each day and is conducting research to help better the care of many others with leukemia.
If you would like to support her research, please send a check payable to ‘Northwestern University’ and note on the bottom that it is for the Jessica Altman Research Fund.
Send your support to:
Jeff Nearhoof
NU-Feinberg School of Medicine
750 N Lake Shore Drive
Rubloff Building, 9th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611