Christmas present for Lombard family!

See the follwoing....That's one of the seasons why I want to be an American! Most are generous for needing people with helping hearts. Ok they are not perfect as everyone is but .......

The Lombard family is not rich, the daughter got the liver that she deserve it from the help of people who cares! She got the liver by blessing or by accidently, that you have your own choice to think about it. OR just do not bother to think!!

The mother's faithful prayer is works. Sometime When I look around I found the miracle....... again also good people die each day too but who will not die and live forever? Popel die in different reasons and ways. I am not even try to understand it because the Big Guy from above is taking care of it!! Sometime people do pray which is still not answer. Some got the answer in a month or in 5 year or 8 years...Also this is not my job to understand it because again this is the job of Big Guy's!!!! My main job is keep praying also in a good time or bad time. If I say " thank you" when in the good time only and blame to God for when I am in the bad time?? Let me tell you "This is not fair for the very Big Guy at all".... Enough !

Hope you all enjoy the article!



Teen won't give up after liver transplant

Special to The R-C Fifteen-year-old Douglas High sophomore Julie Rodriguez at Stanford Medical Center with golden retriever Carly. Carly helps Rodriguez in physical therapy. Rodriguez is learning to walk again after liver failure put her in a coma. She received a new liver on Dec. 30.

by Scott Neuffer, February 3, 2008, 6:00 AM

Andrea Lombard said she didn't know how to ask God for someone else to die, so her daughter could live."I bent down on my knees, and I prayed for Him to take my life," she said. She prayed many times the night of Dec. 29 at Stanford University Medical Center.

Doctors had just told her that her daughter, 15-year-old Douglas High sophomore Julie Rodriguez, would die within hours unless she received a new liver."The doctor said he would take any liver at that point, that each minute was gold," said Lombard, in a tearful interview on Tuesday. "He came in at 9:45 p.m. and said they'd found one, from a 24-year-old boy from Fresno with the same blood."But for Lombard, the miracle was ambivalent. "I don't know how the boy died," she said. "How do you thank someone for giving their life to save your child?"Struggle with uncertainty is nothing new for Lombard.

In 2000, she immigrated to the United States from Argentina."I was a single mother with three children," she said. "In Argentina, we were poor."In Nevada, Lombard not only found a job as a cook for the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, but met her second husband, welder Phil Lombard, and had another child. Last November, her eldest, Argentina-born Julie Rodriguez, was a typical outgoing teenager. A sophomore at Douglas High School, her mother said she had lots of friends. She frequently took swim classes in hopes of one day being a rescue swimmer for the Navy.

Around the end of November, Julie's skin began turning yellow. She went to a doctor and was diagnosed with hepatitis A. But that was erroneous. A week later Julie's liver failed and put her in an emergency room at Carson-Tahoe Regional Medical Center. By the time she reached a liver specialist at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Reno, her condition was so precarious doctors had to perform a biopsy through her neck because of continual blood transfusions."She was going through four bags of blood a day," Lombard recalled. "They found that 65 percent of her liver was dead."The cause of her sickness was not Hepatitis but a serious side effect of medication she was taking for thyroid problems, Lombard said.

On Dec. 12, Julie was taken by helicopter to Stanford for a transplant. "She went into a coma. She woke up a little while on Christmas, but fell back into a coma the day after," Lombard said. "Her brain began swelling. Doctors said her body was shutting down. She wasn't responding to anything."Julie was among hundreds waiting on a transplant list, Lombard said."Being at Stanford, I saw 9-month-old babies with leukemia. Mothers crying and waiting for transplants," Lombard said. It got worse. Doctors told her Julie's brain was dying. "Before she went into a coma, she made a promise. She said, 'Mom, you've taught me to fight my whole life, and I'm going to fight no matter what,'" Lombard said.]

On Dec. 30, at 5:30 a.m., Julie went into surgery. During the middle of the operation, her heart stopped for four minutes. Doctors revived her, but questioned whether her brain was dead. They placed a new liver inside her body and completed the operation. Twelve hours later, Julie opened an eye and asked for her mother. "She looked at me with one eye, with a tube in her mouth, and she said, 'Mom?'" Lombard recalled, with tears streaming down her face. "I can't describe how crazy it was during that time. I don't want to remember it. It was horrible."Julie spent the New Year in intensive care fighting for life. Her lungs collapsed. She developed diabetes and lost 59 pounds. But she kept her promise to keep fighting, and gradually, day by day, improved."She had to re-learn how to eat, how to speak," Lombard said. "And when she could speak, she'd say, 'Mom, I want to go home.'"Lombard and her husband drove back and forth between Stanford and the Valley, working for a couple days, talking to Julie by phone, then going back. Co-workers at the Sheriff's Office donated sick hours so Lombard could have more time off. They also helped drive the family to California and pay for Julie's medical bills. "Her therapy (speech and physical) is $5,000 a day," said Lombard, whose medical insurance has capped out. But the therapy has been working. Julie is regaining her ability to speak and is learning to walk.

On Friday, she was moved to the Ronald McDonald House for child-transplant patients, down the street from Stanford. "She's starting to set goals again," said Lombard. "She said, 'If I can't go into the Navy, I want to open a restaurant with you.'"Julie's biggest challenge is for her body to accept the new liver. Lombard said she has at least two more months in the Ronald McDonald House before coming home."We haven't taken down our Christmas decorations," Lombard said. "She still has presents waiting for her at home." Toward the end of the interview, Julie called her mom."I want to thank all of those helping me," she said on speaker phone. "I want to thank Douglas High School and my friends and family for being there. I'm coming home soon."Those interested in helping the Lombard family with medical bills can make donations to Bank of America account No. 0520866907.

Hollywood

I just finished the movie, "The Departed"... I love the movie!!! One of my favourite. If I am one of the board menbers of the Oscar, I would say "the Oscar goes to Leonardo De Capio".....He is a real telented actor. Lately I was watching some very good movies. Thanks to Hollywood! For me... in entertainment, without Hollywood, what movies am I going to watch? There are some more good movies that I remember of...:"Blood Diamod", "Amrican Gangster", The Assassination of Jesse Jame", "Sweeney Todd", "Larry .."( whatever about that fake gay couple), and "Amazing Grace", "Wardance (documentary)" "The King of Scottland"... ect....Oh they are good!! My husband loves "Sicko" but I can't stand that man, Mr. Moor?? I think he is ugly.

Let me tell you how good the hollywood is ........some movies are so look real that they can make me and my family laugh, angry, cry and sometime teach me about life (which is better than SPME of my old Professors) . Yes... there are some bad movies too. Somehow I do not like some movies ..example... "shortcut to Hppiness, Because I said so, I think I love my wife, cast away, ta ta ta....." The worst is "Jackass"..(the store owner in Bangkok told me it is very funny moives, (he said "vely vely good you look ok!!), so I bought and watched at home. Let me tell you one of the nightmare for me!! ( I did watch some not all). People around the world some (OK remember here I said "some") do not like American but most of them love American Movies.

The closet Movies shooting I had been was In Belize. Me and my son was on the beach and Banjaman Brad was making the movie "after the Storm" That time he was with Julia Robert..... She is so beautiful. We went into his movie setting house...in the movie, it was built for a very poor man!! I had met the Producer of "Rug Rat" cartoon movie. He came to my house in Bangkok and ate my Robins's Shrimps. He is a nice guy! OK ..Thank you Hollywood and weldone actors and actress.

I am a woman who is very proud to be an American. Do not miss understand me ofcourse I love my Shan State in Burma but ................................... Somehow I have a new life now. What Amercan give me is a good life (not talking about money). Let me tell you in America ...no one came to my door and said "give me your Jeep car we need it of 3 months" but never came back, OR "Give me your land we need that for who and whos" later I saw some stranger living in my land OR "come and pick up your relative he/she just die of bird flu in Jail." without chickens around ect........ endless stories!!

I love you Hollywood and America!! Thanks agian!

The % of happiness

I am seriously want to ask you (who ever read my blog), are you happy? How happy you are? How you are going to find the happiness? who you are going to happy with?? ....ect...............................


Let me look back my happy times......Most people say the happiness starting within the family first..mean if you have a good set of parent, you will have the confident in adult life and most likly to success in future!! Ok these are coming out of my life experiences with happiness...........The following are only for fun to read BUT not a lie in there!!

With Parent: I will rate happiness with my parent is 40 %. I said this so because as my parents were divorce when I was only 7 or 8 years old. I did not like them, I did not want to see them but I love my grandmother! Happiness with my grandma is 100%! I know I am normal because I had a set of parent (not in blood parent) who are very high class in attitude!! love..yes I do love my own parent.

With schooling : It is 100% happy and fun in high school. I love my high school years because I did have a set of very good friends. Now we are all over the world. With University year, I said 100 % happiness with friends but for learning may be only 45 % because I hate what I was learning (talking about Burmese Education way).

With dating: I did not date so much.... say... I am not so good at this one. Thank goodness...I had never date a pimp, a pervert, an idiot nor muderers!! so I rate in this field for 85% happiness!

With Marrying: Honestly I love married life because you face verything with someon you love...but I did not mean alway happy though... you do not have happy, happy and happy. It is fun to see the hpppiness % of this one... never stay the same % ...its goes...sometimes 100%, may be more sometime like 150 % but it can be like dive down to 25 %, may be sometime 0 % or may be sometime minus -50%...so we need a good Dr. to do a resecrch!! It's goes like my Prograf level ( my immue surpressor), it does change up and down and up and down.

With your child: It is always 100%. Do not ask me why? because I do not have answer I just felt it that way.

With In laws: If you have a good set of in laws, yes .... love can reach almost...I said almost 100% but if you have mean in laws ...Ok I will let you answer this yourself!!!

With friends: I am saying platonic (spell??) friendship...I have feinds that I love them a lot. ..almost 100%. I love Mie Mie Htun (the grand daughter of old Finance Minister), she is in LA now. She was the person I grew up together with 16 years in one house, we shared one room, same school, the same friends, movies, almost everything.... Her family fed me and my sister for so many years. She is my very very good friend to me till now. Later years I am so close to Rose, Rose Mary, Pinky, Sandy, Cho Mar,Sein Sein, myu, Nyunt Nyunt. In my over sea years.... I love this lady... She is a Princess, lives in Washington DC. She is a true good freind evey time I need help or kind wards she is the one who help me or to others too. So many good feinds called me when I was fighting with my liver cancer in Gainesville..she is the one cried with me.. She understand my feeling for that ugly time of my life! People I did mention in here are being friends to me over 16 years to 25 years!! A real true good freinds!!!Somehow I love my doctors, my nurse and my cordinators too...Not only because of I am doing very well but also the kindness that they showed me.

Now to answer the questions of happiness....Yes I am happy because I know more about life now than before (never be 100% because I am still learning). I am happy most of the time lately because I know how to accept the proplems and ugly peoples. How am I going to find the happiness????...well if you balance of your work, family and prayers with true faith, this will give you the ALMOST happiness in this world. Someone said..."if you are very good at work, top seed of what ever you are doing with it but if you forget the family and faith... one day you will wake up like Howard Huge's. Same as you are a good family man or woman but not good at work and not definitely in faith ( what ever you believe in )..you will confuse your child or to your family. Also you are a good belivers but forget about your work, and family?? answer yourself please!!!

Talking about MYLIFE......I do find very peaceful when I pray with my family before going to bed... also when I read my bible. I felt such a calm in my mind. I will finish with my son's prayer which he says before to bed...... he, my Shan said " God is good, God is great and thank you for everything. Please help mommy and Daddy"....Have a very happy day!!

Liver news

I got the following articles from my google subscriber. There are always good news and sad news. I would like to express my very thank you to my doctors..
Dr. Hemming, Dr. Nelson, Dr. Soldavilla Pico and the whole transplant team at the Shand hospital, University of Florida at Gainesville.




Oro Valley resident Dianne Miller won a second chance at life. Now she uses her victory to recruit help for others.

To watch her work out in the training room at the El Conquistador Country Club, it's hard to believe that in 2004 Dianne was almost dead.
As she exercises, she says, "They gave me my last rites twice."
A virus attacked her liver. Within weeks it shrunk the largest organ in her body to the size of a silver dollar. Then, at the 11th hour, while she was in a coma, she received a liver transplant.
Dianne says it saved her life. It also turned her into an Olympic competitor.
As she works out, she explains, "This is all about organ donation, to show that transplantation works. After being transplanted we have a second chance of life and we don't sit on the couch and eat potato chips and watch movies all day."
Dianne competes in the U.S. and world Transplant Olympics. And she wins events including tennis, track and swimming.
Among her victories she says are, "14 gold in Australia, 4 in America. And then I went to the world transplant games and I entered three events in swimming and set three world records."
At 59, she's obsessed.

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Mother sacrificed her life by refusing cancer treatment so her premature baby would live
Lorraine Allard lost cancer battle three weeks after giving birthBy ANDREW LEVY - More by this author » Last updated at 00:38am on 26th January 2008
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Four months into her pregnancy, Lorraine Allard was devastated to learn she was in the advanced stages of cancer.
Doctors advised her to have an abortion and start chemotherapy straight away.
Instead, with steadfast courage, she insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband Martyn: "If I am going to die, my baby is going to live."
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Lorraine Allard, 33, and Liam two weeks after he was born. She started a course of chemotherapy almost straight away and was able to cradle him just a handful of times before she died last Friday

A caesarean delivery was scheduled at 26 weeks, but Mrs Allard went into premature labour a week before and Liam was born on November 18.
She then started chemotherapy, but died on January 18 - having left her bed a handful of times to cuddle her son beside his incubator.
"Lorraine was positive all the way through - she had strength for both of us," Mr Allard said yesterday.
"Towards the end we knew things weren't going well, but she was overjoyed that she had given life to Liam."
The 34-year-old oilfield technician from St Olaves, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and his 33-year-old wife already had three daughters - Leah, ten, Amy, eight, and Courtney, 20 months - when they learned they were expecting their first boy
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Grieving: Lorraine's husband Martyn with his two daughters, Amy, 8, and Courtney, 20 months
"We were going to have the full set and didn't plan to have any more children after that," said Mr Allard.
But in October last year, his wife started suffering stomach cramps and tests at James Paget Hospital in Gorleston revealed tumours on her liver.
It is believed the disease spread from bowel cancer that had been growing unnoticed for years.
"The doctors said they couldn't do anything because she was pregnant," said Mr Allard.
"She told them straight away they were not going to get rid of the baby. She'd have lost the will to fight."
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Fighting for life: Liam in hospital just after his birth. He is still in hospital but it is hoped he could fit enough to go home in March
Mrs Allard went into labour a couple of weeks after the diagnosis and gave birth at the Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Hospital in Norwich.
"Liam was so tiny, just 1lb 11oz, so the nurse picked him up and allowed Lorraine to give him a little kiss before he was taken to an incubator," said Mr Allard.
"She was so emotional. She had been so determined to give him the best chance and was happy that he had been born naturally, which meant she wouldn't have to recover for a couple of weeks after a caesarean before beginning the chemotherapy."
The treatment began almost immediately and Mrs Allard spent her time recuperating at home, apart from four visits to her newborn son.
The first was when he was two weeks old, during which a treasured photo of her cuddling him was taken.

Treasured photo: Lorraine and Martyn with Liam. Her father said 'She was a big personality with a heart of gold'
Liam has responded well to his care and it is hoped he will be sent home from hospital in early March.
But his mother's health started to deteriorate just before Christmas and a scan on January 17 revealed the tumours were still growing.
She died the following day. Mr Allard said: "The doctors had said the cancer was no longer curable, although they were trying to shrink the tumours - which they thought might give her a couple of years.
"On the day Lorraine died, she hadn't eaten for two weeks and couldn't drink.
"I laid beside her and she was gripping my hand quite tight.
"We were like that for about half an hour. I could feel against my chest that her heart was slowing down. She just slipped away after that. It was very peaceful.
"When Liam is old enough, I won't tell him that Lorraine gave her life for him, but I will say she made sure he had a good chance of life.
"She told me she didn't want him to feel bad about it."
Mrs Allard's father, Tom Berry, said: "I was overwhelmed by the way Lorraine took it.
"She lived for her husband and children. She was a big personality with a heart of gold."
Babies born at 25 weeks have a 50 per cent chance of survival.
This goes down to 39 per cent at 24 weeks and 17 per cent - or a one in six chance - at 23 weeks.

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I considered that I am a smart woman and Robins is a very expert in his business..... But how come my son, Shan's first term report card is not satisfactory to me??? We just came back from teachers and parents meeting at Shan's school. I am ok but not happy of my son's performent which is he can do better!! Then I told myself that even he is a cleaner at the airport (which is I hope never will be)...he is still my only child..... so... I will love him always.

I have been looking my air lines schedules for my next check up in Florida. Now already 2 weeks I can't make decision how will I go to Gainesville. I do not like flying at all. I hate it but no choice. I have been flying since I was a child. I am ok but ...put it this way even Brad Pitt is next to me, it won't help me to feel good in flying. I always lost my smile in the plane. IF there is a ship from Bangkok to Miami for 3 days trip, I am happily will go for it. You can say it is crazy but I don't care. For sure those flying phobia will join me.

I already did non stop from Bangkok to LA and NY! I hated both trips. Not to the air line but to my feeling of flying. It is 18 hours to NY and 16 hours to LA. This is giving me half of my brain boiled! I need to break for this trip. See for a woman can't sit one place for 15 minutes is facing 18 hours flight!!! This is a real purnisment to me.

The Ex Prime Minister of Thailand, Mr. Taksin is coming back in May! This is the head line of news paper. I know he has some hate him and some love him people. Well again all of the leaders face such thing but my wish to Mr. Taksin is just only looks for the best of Thai people then will be fine.

Election is coming for US too. I like McCain but the only thing I worry is he might drop dead
while campaining or else... I must go for massage because my son report card make me not so me.......mean I am lost of thinking straight!!!!!

Meai=wife

"Meai Noit" means small wife ( actually mean mistress) and "Meai Long" mean big wife (real meaning is first wife) in Thai language. Bangkok is as many other big cities, we have full of meai long and meai noit club!!

On Saturday at aroud 2 pm, there was a shooting right at the corner of my home. The big wife came to shoot at the small wife for being a small wife to her husband. Luckily the small wife is not dead becaue the big wife is such a bad shooter!!! The small wife got a way with it as the result was only screatch on her arm. Around my place, we do have very good looking houses belong to doctors, lawyers, investers or businessmen ...ect.... I was so childish to think that how come Maei Noit has such a beautiful house!!

Two months ago when I was at up Northern Point of Thailand...There was a girl who was engaged just about to marry soon, went to have a tea with another male friend at coffee shop. Suddenly her finance came to shoot at her to dead!! Sad...very sad.

Ok let me think about all these Meai Long, Meai Noit's news which is going on often in every where. Remember that the following are my thinking only and might not agree by you all...........There are full of single male or female on this earth and Why don't all these single goes find another single person?? why need to screw the one belong to someone. If someone excuse me saying .."I can't fine good single one OR I just love this married man or woman"! I would answer to her or him that "Are you a looser with shrimp's brian??" (remember shrimp do not have brain in the head just full of $#@*!! Most (not all) educated people do not like second hand... They do not want to be Meai Noit or Pho Noit (small husband). Well... theres alway need two hands to clap though.

For those who can't controll their own body, mean who has a sickness in their sex life and need both Meai Long and Meai Noit...please be smart!! Why don't you have one in Bangkok and the other one in Africa??? In this way you might save your Meai Noit's life or may be sometime your Meai long's wife or may be your own life too!! Agian even not save 100 % because someone might take the plane and go shoot at your meai noit.

I wish women should be smarter than men! (byt he way we do have a song said so)........ why don't both Meai shoot the man!! Well I've been talking rubbish, actually none of my business. The only thing will becoming my business is IF my Robins has Meai Noit!!! or I am starting to looking for "Pho Noit"?? I promise you that will not happen in this life but let me clear the air...... I am not the "Hillary Clinton". I am not a kind, forgiving wife nor a shrimp either!!! After 16 years of my married investment I think Robins belong to me. Hope you agree my thinking of today!

white lies

The following are from "Bangkok Post" New Paper.......


The odds and ends said "British people are average lie four times a day, ( Wow..that's too much to lie for a day. I hope David and Genni not mad at me!!!), but it's mostly to avoid embarrassment rather than to deceive people.

According to a survey by drinks brand WKD, the most frequently uttered lie is "Nothing's wrong-I'm fine".. ta ta ta .... Then goes....................

Almost a quarter of men have told a partner that she looks good in an outfit, despite thinking the opposite, and 29% have lied about flirting with another woman.

Almost half of the famales admitted to having lied about how much new clothes really cost them and 30% about how much they have had to drink.

A third of the 2,500 polled a dmitted to havin glied a bout their weight!!

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Ok please see my view point of lies........

I do not or will not say that I never lie, now I can excuse that.... yes I did some British lies too. My husband said calling someone a lier is very bad (may be this is American point of view).

I also learn something about lie too.. if you lie please do not let other caught.. because the minutes you got caught this is bad. I caught some people lies to me and make me feel sick in my gut.

Lets see some of my lies... Yes I admitted lieing about my shopping. Bangkok post said "women lie about how much new clothes cost"...I was or may be I am one of them. ( I have gut to tell the truth !!). Some of my dresses cost good prize tag. If I told the real prize to Robins, he will preach me for how I must save the money for one weeks till my ears got hot!!! So that I lie...But......Let me tell you my Robins is very good at preaching about money.

We never lie about our fatness to each other though. He used to tell me how fat I am and told me not 2 serving. I told him how fat he is too. I have excuse for my fatness ! See I made baby and got fat but what kind of fat cause to my Robins get bigger?? Thai food? Happyness? Stressless???...

Well lets lie in British way only please!!!