Duke

The Carolina Jordan's lost a family member on Thursday, October 2, 2008. We had to put Duke to sleep, after a long battle with a Mast cell cancer. He was diagnosed with this in February of 2008. We adopted Duke in March of 2001 and brought him home before the NCAA final four tournament of that year. He had a long list of accomplishments, including eating half of a berry torte that Egla made that weekend for Danielle's confirmation party. In Chicago, he dragged Nicholas 20 feet. Duke loved to go for walks in the Dan Ryan preserve, just north of Beverly. He has tried to walk away with an entire turkey carcass, in Chapel Hill. Duke could find chocolate no matter where it was hidden. Chocolate was probably his favorite food, along with deer poop. He once ate 2 pounds of Hersy's kisses, with the wrappers, no problem. As you can tell, his favorite activity was eating. He taught us to be very neat as far as food was concerned. We could leave nothing out. In Chapel Hill, there were only 2 safe places, behind the sink and on top of the fridge. He also was a very affectionate dog, and loved and protected Danielle, Nick and Kyle. If any of us were wrestling, he would 'attack' me. His next favorite activity was sleeping.

Here is Duke doing just that in the kitchen in Chicago. Oddly enough as a Labrador retriever, he really didn't like water. He hated walking in the rain and would feign sleep or just hide if it was time for a walk, when it was raining. On the last day of his life, Egla, Nick, Kyle and even Danielle, from Lima on videochat, were able to say goodbye to him. I took him for a walk on the easement-his favorite walk-uncharacteristically let him eat deer poop and then took him to the Vet. They were very supportive, kind and considerate. He was peaceful and, I think, ready. We will spread his ashes on the easement, near the waterfall. Oh, and for those of who did not catch the NCAA weekend tie-in and his greatest achievement, good luck. He was already named Duke, when we adopted him just before Duke won the NCAA championship.

Duke, AKA-Dukous, Wookie, Sir Barf-a-lot
March 11, 1999-October 2, 2008
Rest In Peace

well here i am playing after pts. work does mostly suck, we just started on an EMR a few months ago and the typing skills are still bad!!. I see quite a few SIU-SOM grads here in pia, and work w/ 3 other med-peds guys from there. The Randy Kiensstra stories are still great! I need to figure how to post the dig photos and will work on pic's of the family. Evan is 19 and a soph at Luther college in Iowa in environment. No interest in medicine, such a smat lad! Ellie is a Jr. in high school and busy w/ accelerated classes,cheering and texting! She wants to be a nurse/practitioner so if you know of any streamlined programs in that let me know... it's time to look.



will see if can do some fun stuff on here, eventually see each other again i.e. planned med meeting somewhere fun!!??

Blogging

OK, so maybe there is some renewed interest in this blogging thing. We shall see-the last time this was posted to was last year. If you guys want me to invite someone else just let me know. Anyway, here goes nothing. I am going to post some photos, to give you an idea of where Egla and I are now.


Here is a photo of the crib in Chapel Hill. We just had it painted.



Egla and I doing Karaoke at a neighborhood party we hosted at our house.


Danielle (now 20) and Nick (now 17) from last year. Danielle is a junior at Davidson College and is doing her semester abroad this semester, in Peru. Nick is a senior at E. Chapel Hill High School. We think he wants to go to Duke, but who knows. He plays things close to the vest.



And but not least, is Kyle (14), just entering High School this year. Kyle is the bass player with the red afro.

Addition Of New Buds

Since Jay and Tim are SO LAME, in terms of blogging, and since I would like like to hear from some other people, I am going to ask others to the blog. This is a pic from 2 years ago, off of Sarasota, with the whole family-Me, Egla, Danielle, Nick and Kyle.

Addition Of New

Sarasota Sunday

Hey guys, we should try to keep up with each other more-not those forwarded e-mail things, although some of them are kinda funny Jay. Anyway, you are invited to a blog-it is OUR blog-you can invite anyone you want-altho, as the administrator, I may need to invite. You will need to set up a google account-just email and password, before posting. Anyway, look forward to hearing from you guys.