Tucker Travels

Dobbs Gravesites

posted by J J Tucker @ 8:11 PM 0 comments

Happy New Year!

Here we sit, Arnold watching football on TV and me trying to update this blog. Many of you know that this has been a stressfull year for us and especially for Arnold. The stress has ended up putting a strain on Arnold's heart to the extent that his ejection rate is only 35%. Normal is 40% to 75%. This means that he gets winded and tired much easier and that he is also at an increased risk for Sudden Cardiac Death due to an irregular heart beat of the left ventricle. To help prevent this and give him more freedom he is wearing a www.Lifecor.com Life Vest Defibulater and battery pack. This will shock him if he goes into defib and get his heart started again and then we call the EMTs. So far all has been quiet and that is the way we hope to keep it. He is on new medication and will go for an echo gram on the 4th of January to see if the medication is increasing his ejection fraction. We are hopeful. This will also decide if we go to AZ or not and have more travels to report. So until we know more, that's all for now. See you next year.

JJ

posted by J J Tucker @ 8:05 PM 0 comments

Update

Hello again,

It has been a long time since writing. We have done a couple of trips since the last writing but I guess I got slack. We went to Rend Lake fishing with David and Rosemary and to RI to visit my mother before going to a rally in North Carolina. While at the rally we visited a library to look up some of Arnold's family history. We found some interesting things on Tuckers but were not sure if they were the right Tuckers until we got home. Now we have to go back and get more information. So this has lead to our visiting a grave site in Almon, GA and taking pictures of the Dobbs family plots, Arnold's mother's side of the family. That is why I am posting the pictures here so that all can view them, if and when I figure out how.

More, later,
JJ

posted by J J Tucker @ 10:15 PM 0 comments