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10/30/2009 7 miles for smiles...Have any of you heard of '' 7 miles for smiles' ?
'On the 25th June 2009 our world lost a great humanitarian. Michael Jackson left behind him a legacy of love and giving, he was a passionate supporter of many charities and was honoured for his giving and his compassion. Look to the stars said:- As well as writing We Are The World with Lionel Richie and helping to organise the United We Stand: What More Can I Give benefit concert in the wake of September 11, Jackson also donated the proceeds from a song to victims of Hurricane Katrina, often donated items to charity auctions, and was to donate some of the proceeds from his upcoming shows in London to charity. He set up a burns unit for children and also established the Heal The World Foundation, whose work has included airlifting 6 tons of supplies to Sarajevo, instituting drug and alcohol abuse education and donating millions of dollars to less fortunate children.'
This as they rightly say was the tip of the iceberg. On Sunday the 17th January 2010 walk the 7 Miles for Michael Jackson and help children all over our world.....
Everyone! - (I am with the girls, and Solitaire)!
Where do I walk?
Anywhere in the world! ...7 miles should take between 1.30 and 2 hours
What time should i set off? Noon wherever you are in the world! How much do i raise/donate? Has much sponsers as you can get or has much has you want, it all helps!
Who is the chosen charity and why?
The chosen charity is Save the Children, Michael Jackson wanted to make this world a better place for all children. This charity is worldwide.
Donation Sites-
help by walking the 7 miles in memory of MJ to carry on his work, to keep the donations coming in by raising much needed funds for children all over the world.!
 ...Do it for the children!!  10/26/2009 Operation Christmas Child (Shoebox Appeal)...Have you heard of Operation Christmas Child? Am sure some if not most of you will of seen an advertizment or get involved each year yourself.
Operation Christmas Child is the world's largest children's christmas project- devoted to spreadin love,joy and smiles to children in parts of the world such has Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
In the UK alone last year over 1.2 million shoeboxes packed full of gifts and goodies where wrapped, packed and sent to children in disadvataged situations by children and adults in the UK.
The project has been running for over 19 years now, through volenteers giving their time to help make sure these shoeboxes reach the children via working with churches overseas to ensure that your shoebox gets delivered by hand to the children that most need it, regardless of their background or beliefs.
What Operation Christmas Child boils down to is,one gift, from one individual to another , to remind a child in need that they are not forgotten.
Shoeboxes need to be delivered from the 1st November- 18th November 2009 there is a full list of what you can/cannot include in those boxes here Operation Christmas Child
It is so easy to forget these children especially if like myself you have children and family of your own to buy christmas presents for, although i am not a christian thanks to this project my own children know that there are children out there who do not wake up christmas morning to a christmas tree jammed full of presents, the girls love to get involved knowing that the box they have chosen gifts to put in, wrapped and sent is going to make a child smile this christmas and you can to, just click on the above link to find your nearest drop-off point.
Middle one's rose gets to Neverland...You will remember back on August 25th mum, the girls and myself met Sam from Facebook and other MJ fans for Michael Jackson birthday tribute Mind refresher if needed.
LONG AWAITED NEWS FOR MIDDLE ONE CAME TODAY-
  10/11/2009 Guardianship of the girls sorted....FINALLY managed to get hold of bro No 3 yesterday afternoon..tell you that lad is either working or sleeping! After walking past his house fair few times with the girls after Brett's funeral last Thursday, then again Saturday with mum and little one i managed to find his new place here in Dartmouth which closely resembles a maze on 3 floors....nice place it is, the girls certainly approved by sitting on their bums bumping down one set of steps, leading to the garage under the house, then running up another set of steps that leads them out in a completely different part of the house...
I explained to him what had happened at the dentist, and the in's and out's of why i needed to ask, i didn't need to explain, he immediatly said his job would be no more, things around the house would have to change, including getting a bigger house to have the girls if anything was to happen to me, apparently he had had a similar conversation in the past, a conversation not taken any further due to the girls being taken into Social Services Temp care. Bro no 3 was going fishing then on to work. Onto work providing he and his mates who go fishing down the navy base docks doesn't get locked in by the MOD mob police AGAIN, then he will be letting his boss know the situation. Course he will have to work out his notice, whilst he is doing that his girlfriend will have the girls, even though bro's girlfriend is having a baby next year, she was has quick to say she would be there for the girls and bro in helping to look after them.
Why Bro no 3?
He may be my little bro but the girls dote on him, even more now he lives in Dartmouth
He's 2 out the 3 girls goddaddy (goddaddy came when older one was a baby and that name just stuck)..will have to get little one Christened at some point soon.
Bro no 3 has a steady relationship with his girlfriend, (over 2 years now)
They both now live together has well has going to be parents themselves,
Noway would he see the girls put into care on a permanate basis, i didn't even have to say it today to him, he came out with it himself.
IF, bro no 3 split with his girlfriend anytime in the future (so hope they don't) then he has already said the girls would come wherever he goes... He would have the guardianship so it would be his say!
We talked about the family and the situation if anything did go wrong with me in the future how i am hoping the family would help and support bro no 3, hoping that the family would look at the Guardianship has it is the ONLY way to keep the girls in the family, has it is today our family, which was once close got blown into pieces around 2006...Today half the family do not speak to the other half.
When i say do not speak, i don't mean just having a silly fall out.
WHY?- Many many reasons the list is a long one, but for example.
The girls do not know that over the water, a bus ride away, their other uncle (bro no 2) has 2 girls and a boy. Their neices and nephew. I do not know exact ages, infact do not know their names well enough to remember them. Oldest is 7 same has my middle one (2 months difference between them, middle one is older than bro no 2's daughter).. I 'think' if i remember correctly bro no 2's girlfriend got pregnant and had her middle child (the boy) the same year has i had little one..
I was supposed to have little one the end of April, she came 14th feb 2004, think if braincell can rewind to back then, that whilst little one lay in NICU, fighting for her life, bro no 2 around March time let my mum know his girlfriend was pregnant. (So in reality the month before i should of been having little one bro no 2's girlfriend would of just got pregnant)
Now bro no 3's girlfriend is pregnant we are sitting and awaiting the 'I'm pregnant' coming from bro no 2 's girlfriend, she seems to love steeling the spotlight so it is on her and solely her. Although doubt it will come so quick this time has mum told bro no 2 the other day he has a girlfriend that sleeps with half of devon!
Patsy, Max, if you are reading this which i know you will when you have 5mins, hopfully this gives you peace of mind knowing that someone who will not let the girls down will look after them, have the guardianship on a permanent basis. You can both worry no more. I guess i will have to make it all more a legal thing (and yes i will be putting in any legal document that whilst bro no 2 is with his current insult for a girlfriend the girls are to have no part in knowing who he is or his children)....Miss young at the school is onto this, once she has relevent information she will get back to me.
Take care ya'll
10/3/2009 I'm supposed to be afraid of dentist's aren't i ?Friday started like last friday, i did the school ,dropped the girls and friends little boy off at school, caught the bus to go to mum's, i felt ok in myself, nothing wrong at all, got to mums an hour and half after catching the bus, stuck the kettle on for a brew whilst having a laugh with mums care worker over her sudden loss of holding things (the care worker is pregnant).
Care worker left and mum and i left for the dentist half hour later, has we walked to the dentist door i was fine, was in conversation with mum over older one and her sudden sense of winging about EVERYTHING fell into the dentists door, (not literally) mum and myself was laughing has the door was stuck when i tryed to open it....i think next time i go (if) then the dentists door may be locked!
Not long after getting inside i was called in, infact so soon after arriving i hadn't even sat down, i had on arriving let the lady on reception know that whilst the dentist said last friday he could do the filling with no injection, i felt that i should 'just incase'...still i felt fine!
The dentist started to inject my gum...4 times to numb the area, still felt fine, i sat up expecting the dentist to say ''sit there for 5mins let it take effect'' or ''go out into the waiting room and i will call you back in''...noway did i think for a minute he was going to start doing ANYTHING within minutes of that last injection going in.
No idea at all what happened after that... total lights out completely. Infact so completely i nearly wasn't here to type this blog in the early hours of Saturday morning, or a blog at all again.
I awoke in Derriford Hospital around 2 half -3 hours after entering the dentist.
Everything a complete blur, couldn't say anything (which mum would be pleased of give her some peace) that was due to the numbing effect of the injection. Imagine that game ...Pictionary i think it was called, and you have how i communicated with the nurses i awoke to around the bed i layed in.
I couldn't answer any of the Army doctors questions, anything after those injections and the dentist starting to drill.
I layed there listening has mum told the doctor what had happened, what she saw has she was walked into that dentists room to find the dentist screwing the pipe onto the oxygen bottle to bag me...scary thought to type those two words right now, scary thought to think i may never of walked out of that hospital tonight (lastnight now) back home to my girls and Solitaire.
Mum continued to tell the doctor what happened when the first ambulance crew turned up, how they put a line in my arm, my breathing shallow by this point they continued to assist with my breathing, whilst awaiting for a second ambulance.
The doctor asked mum for the dentists number, he wanted to know how much had been injected into me and what happened, the doctor came back and said 2ml was injected but nothing on paper from the dentist to the ambulance crew to prove this, this is the point where i ended up being a pin cushion, or the doc just wanted my blood!.. Has he took the blood mum asked him what he thought had happened has i have had a filling in the past with injection and no problems.
At that point the doc wasn't sure, and went over with mum a second time what happened, has mum then followed with she was gone, totally out of it, i was just staring into obillivion all the way from the dentist to the ressus room of Derriford Hospital, on that note the doc said it was one of two things-
either i had gone into shock
or i had had a fit different to my usual fits i am now so used to having, possibly brought on from stress from what is going on in family right now and the added stress of yesterday bringing 2006 right back again. I never wanted to ever see a courtage again, not after 2006, thought i was over that, time heals and all that, maybe time don't heal that quick!.. but to wait for the blood test results which would be back around an hour and half.
Course now i was suddenly more awake i was worring over the man at the dentist, of which i was told not to, the girls, Solitaire, and not messing today up for the girls, we was going to have fish n chips down in the village straight after school...i needed to pull myself together quick and get back home. By this time it was 1540, mum had called the school to let them know from the dentist i found out, so they was fine till 1800. Has time ticked by awaiting blood results dad and bro no 1 had turned up, i needed a smoke, got the permission to do that so went outside for that long needed smoke... imagine trying to smoke when one half of you're face is numb, probably the reason why i was given the permission to go out, knowing full well i wouldn't be able to, dad thought it was hillerious and smoked mine for me,
 guess the 'waste not want not' should be applied here. hahaha.Something strange that i realized on walking back, the fact i COULD walk on my own, see after i have a fit it totally drains me of all energy, i don't think of anything because my brain just shuts off and i sleep...for hours, on awaking from that up to 5 hours sleep, i usually feel sick and still got that drunk feeling in my legs has though i am floating on a floor, lol dad usually holding me up to walk.
But i was walking fine,
no sickness,
no headache
no dizziness
no spaced out feeling
The doc cut a deal with me has i was so eager to go back home...i wait 30mins then come find him and tap him on the shoulder, if after that time the results was not back he would discharge me either with his number so i could call him later or my number so he could me. I decided 30mins later to just stand and await his attention was the better option.
Results back all ok, i was going home, shook hands with the doc, said 'Thank you very much' and off out the door. I slept most the way back to the girls, couldn't wait to see them, and Solitaire, has arranged Patsy and Max was already at mine to take older one and middle one back with them till Sunday. (See what was i saying about i don't know where i would be without the both of them)
After the two girls had gone I asked mum what happened after i got to Derriford Hospital?--- Mum said she had no idea, she went to call bro no 1 and Patsy and max, when she left i was just staring, on another planet deffinatly not in Devon when she came back some 20-30 mins later i was sat up and more alert.
I think i better call the dentist on monday of course ask if he is ok, am sat alittle worryied about the poor chap, mum said he was shocked when she walked in that room, but also to ask him what he is planning on doing with the hole i have now in my tooth !!
 10/2/2009 The day Dartmouth stood still... The price of conflict
There is no words to describe a soldier that meant so much to a village, so much to all who live here, from shopkeepers, to pub owners, from taxi drivers to the people who live in Dartmouth, a sad day felt by all who paid their respects!
 The sun shone bright just like Brett.
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