We had lunch today with my parents… my dad had LapBand surgery about 2 years ago… and they had much advice for us.  I had seen my dad go through it, but there was so much that I didn’t see that I learned about today.  Oh gracious!  But we can do this!  Jack is uber excited and anxious to get it done.  Me, I’m cautiously optomistic.  But that’s us!  lol

This week is crazy!  I’m visiting a bunch of different venues to try to nail down a place for our annual company banquet, we’re delivering lots of coinage to the MS Society from our coin drive at work (it’s MS Awareness Week, by the way!), and Jack has his pre-op appointment at the hospital, plus a bonus appointment with his plastic surgeon to take a last look at his leg before surgery.

Tonight we had dinner at a great mexican place for a friend’s 30th birthday (happy “getting older” Grant!).  We gave him nicely wrapped Geritol and Hemmroid cream!  lol

I took the plunge and signed up for Twitter this week.  It’s interesting.  I just wish I could merge Facebook, Twitter and my blog all in one place!  Then I’d actually be able to keep up! :o)  So if you’re interested, I’m at twitter.com/jackandheather.  I’m still learning though!

Ok, time to head to bed, start another week, another month (can you believe it’s March already?!?!), and get on with it!

~Heather

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The MS Walk was a huge success!  I met my fundraising goal and our whole team raised a good amount of money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society!  Woo Hoo!!  We had about 30 people walk in the event… amazing!

This past weekend Jack and I participated as volunteers at the MS 150 Bike Ride, from Frisco to Fort Worth!  It was an awesome experience!  It’s a two day ride – 86 miles on Saturday, 74 miles on Sunday (yes, that adds up to 160 and not 150!).  Jack has his amateur radio license so he was part of the communications team on a support van.  I volunteered all over the place!  lol Frisco, Texas Motor Speedway, Sundance Square, you name it!  I feel like I drove all over the metroplex last weekend.  I’m proud to say, though, that I was at the start line and the finish line on both days.  It’s so cool to cheer on these riders, I mean they did something amazing riding all that way.  Someone made the comment, regarding the route, that these guys rode bicycles to places we won’t drive because it’s “too far!”

We had such an amazing time that we’ve already signed up to volunteer (hopefully as a SAG team this time) at the Valero MS 150 Bike to the Beach from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, AND the BP MS 150 from Houston to Austin in early 2009!  Jack wants to shoot for riding in next year’s North Texas MS 150, but we’ll see!

Other than that, we’ve just been staying busy.  Hopefully life will be settling down a little bit… or maybe not!  I start working part time this week for the Grand Praire AirHogs baseball team doing customer service/information desk during home games.  I’m super, super excited about it! 

Jack’s doing good.  He’s seeing the doc at Baylor every week, and they’ve made good progress on getting his wound closed.  They just switched him to a new product this week that is based on honey!  Very interesting stuff!

That’s it for now.  Hopefully I’ll be blogging again soon!
~Heather

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Staying busy, working on some graphics projects for a client, doing some scanning for another… just busy, busy!  Catching up for all the time that I was sick!

Saturday night was our company banquet. I did a special video where I taped a bunch of employees and then put it all together into one DVD.  Everyone LOVED it! I was very proud!  Oh, and I got an award too, so that was nice. Now I turn to planning the company golf tournament in May, so that should be fun.

Jack’s doing good.  The doctor considers his left leg (the MRSA) closed. YAY! The right leg, after being open for over 2 years, is FINALLY looking like it’s going to close!  DOUBLE YAY!!! They finally ordered a jobst garment (compression), and that had to wait until it was closed, so the doctors have confidence too!

Other than that, we’re just living life!  I’m preparing for the MS Walk. I’m selling soldered charms to help raise money, so if you’re interested, email me!  They make GREAT mother’s day gifts!!

~Heather

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So I had someone ask me this week how the training for the MS Walk has been going.  Well…. it’s been going…. well…. not going.  Unfortunately I’ve been sick this past week. Yes, these bottles have become good friends! I started feeling bad on Friday evening, miserable on Saturday and Sunday, and I’ve been trying to get better ever since. I even missed four days of work this week, which is unusual for me!

BUT… that hasn’t stopped the fundraising! I’m up to $400 raised of my $500 goal!  Woo hoo!

Starting next week I’m going to be selling soldered charms as another way to raise money. Each 1×1 charm will be $12 and 100% will go to the MS Walk. I’ll post some here, and some on etsy to try and sell before the end of March and raise more money for MS!

Tomorrow though… it’s back to work. I’m ready to get out of this house!

~Heather

P.S. I just noticed, I sure am cheap when it comes to medicine! I go for the generic almost every time!

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I’ve been working on a special video project for work lately and it’s turning out so much better than I expected! After the big reveal at our Spring Banquet I’ll share a piece of it here. It’s actually two pieces – one consists of video clips and the other is all made up of still photos. So much fun to play around with!

Very excited to say that I was honored as an Employee of the Month for February, thanks in BIG part to my work on the tradeshow! It’s very cool to be recognized when you put in a lot of hard work. So what do I get? A nice certificate and a reserved parking spot for the month, complete with my name on it! I’ll have to post a picture… when I remember to take one! lol

MS Walk Status – I’m slowly but surely moving towards my fundraising goal! Check out http://www.nationalmssociety.org/goto/heatheratpollock to make a tax-deductible donation of any amount! Every little bit helps!

Have a great week!
~Heather

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After Jack’s accident I decided that I wanted to get involved in charitable events for medical research. Our company participates in the annual MS 150 bike race, and this year we are also participating with a team in the walk. I signed up today.

Now comes the fun part… the fundraising! My initial goal is to raise $500, however I’m hoping to increase that goal before too long.

If you want to help me meet that goal, you can go to my participant site to donate online – http://www.nationalmssociety.org/goto/heatheratpollock .

Every little bit helps, so if you can contribute $20, $10, $5 or even $1, please consider sponsoring me in the walk.

You can also go there to join the walk, start a team, or just learn more about MS and what’s being done to fight it.

I’m planning on documenting the whole experience here on my blog, from start to finish. It’s going to be a great thing, and I can’t wait!

~Heather

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