Month: June 2015

No fans, I am not going on another vacation…………………………….  yet.

This Sunday we will be participating in the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Take Steps Walk in Los Angeles (actually in Santa Monica).  It is a fun day and gives me great pleasure to know that we are taking an active role in funding the research that will eventually find a cure for this problem.  Most of you, on this list, know that two of my three children have had to deal with Crohn’s disease since they were only 11 years old.  Although the thoughts of those early days when they were so very ill are still strong enough to bring tears to my eyes as I type this blog (making me a little nutty too, I first typed ears) I am so pleased how well all our children have done.  We all have challenges presented to us in life and my kids are no different.  All three of them have met their challenges  and are doing fine.  We are very, very proud of all of them.

Enough gloating about my wonderful children.  Tomorrow we walk.  You are all invited (especially those on the list who are in Spain, San Mateo, Florida, Chicago, Texas, Memphis, South Carolina, Italy, Indiana, Colorado, Fresno, North Carolina, New Orleans, Arizona, San Francisco and Pittsburgh, sorry if Ieft out your location).

Thanks to the help of many who follow this Blog we will be the top fundraiser for I think the 6th year in a row.  Each year our totals get bigger.  I only wish they would continue to increase but there would be 10 fundraisers topping our total.  If you have not participated and don’t want to be left out, the link to my Walk page is

http://online.ccfa.org/goto/DrRobertReiss2015

I seem to say the following quite frequently on the blog, please pray for good weather.  Looking a bit ominous right now.

Robert

Patrice and I thought about heading down to San Diego to see the Pirates play the Padres today but after seeing them lose 3 straight games in St. Louis I was worried one more loss and I would become permanent persona non grata for all future Buc’s games.

Instead we decided to visit my dear mother.  Patrice has long wanted to go to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library so since it isn’t too far from mama’s house we decided to do both. The Library was first on our agenda.

Upon entering the Library we were greeted by a smiling young lady who asked if this was our first visit (yes) and  had we been to any other Presidential Libraries (yes to that too).  “Richard Nixon’s?” she asked sporting a very Orange County like smile. “No, LBJ and JFK.”  Our answer resulted in a look of disdain from our “Greeter” but oh well, you can’t please everyone. The self-guided library tour was good but not great.  We loved seeing Air Force One.  The selling of pictures (taken by staff in front of the plane) and having a film promoting the Library App download for “only $2.99” seemed a bit cheesy.  I never was a big Reagan fan so my opinion might be tainted.  Love him or hate him I still got teary eyed at the end of the exhibit when they discussed his death and end of life suffering with Alzheimer’s disease (son Mike said that just prior to the President’s death he only knew his son as “The guy who hugs me”.)

After the museum it was off to see my amazing mother.  She is 99 but she knows much much more than that I  am the guy who hugs her. She was bragging about her great granddaughter and we talked about all sorts of things.  We also got to FaceTime with our daughters in Spain and the Grandsons in Northern California.

For dinner we headed to Boneyard Bistro in Sherman Oaks.  Patrice had read an article stating that this was a supreme BBQ place.  It was good but dinner just made me want to return to Memphis.

What a great day.  Today felt like I was making up for having to cut the vacation short due to my stone.

By the way, Pittsburgh lost 7-1.  Good thing I didn’t go.