A New Hero

When mom in law went into the hospital back in September, she had many room mates. One of the ladies has since become a dear friend. She started dialysis the same time and they have been chair neighbors since October. She and her husband are two of the kindest people I have ever met. They are positive and always look for the brighter side of everything.

We have also discovered we have a few things in common. They too are University of Oregon Ducks, although they are bigger sports fans than I am. They like to eat good food and have given me many ideas for places to go eat. But best of all, I found out they are Trekkies.

They make the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas and do the big convention down there. He took the time one day and shared with me about his collection of signed photographs and other memorabilia. When I shared with my kids, he became one very cool guy. I shared with him about my kids and the USS Dreammaker. He thought that was pretty cool. They even sent one of their home made communicators to him.

Today he became one of the heroes of my kidos. He sent home a variety of signed 8x10's of cast members of different Star Trek series. He then said that they could each have one! There was much giggling and bouncing and screaming when the kids saw what he had sent. The choices they made were pretty interesting. I have to say that it was hard to keep my mouth shut and let them pick, cuz I sure had my favorites.

p.s. It was pretty funny when my camera asked if anyone blinked....no those are his artificial eyes!!