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I just received a sad email from a member about ALS model Ashley. Apparently, her ovarian cancer has come back in full force and now she has been told that she needs a complete hysterectomy. This is so sad for me because I have been with her many times over the years, for both work and fun, and she is just such a nice, sweet person. This is fucked up!! She has a web site; the URL is: http://www.melissa-ashley.com/. She is asking for financial help again. I know these times are tough but if you get a chance, drop by her site and check it out. Help her out if you are willing and able. Sorry for the sad news but hopefully with the hysterectomy it will get all that bad stuff out of her body.

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I'm still very into my ghost hunting, though I haven't had much time to investigate lately. A few friends and I went to this old, abandoned school up in Portland to check it out but we didn't have any of my equipment with us, so we didn't get any evidence. I do have two investigations coming up with the SouthWest Paranormal Research team; one at Casey Moore's Grill in Tempe (supposedly haunted upstairs) and a huge one down in Bisbee, AZ right after July 4th. Woo-Hoo! I can't wait! My Dad bought me this awesome new "toy" to play around with (not that kind of toy, you perv! ) on investigations, it's called an Ocilus. (I think I probably spelled that wrong, unfortunately.) It picks up electrical signals in the air and assigns words and sounds to each. It's like a mindreader thingy and it works surprisingly well, at least around living people. If it works as it should, it might be a good way to communicate with those of us who no longer have a body.

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No doubt there have been bogus reports. But why do so many think it's impossible for a PW to get cancer ?

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No doubt there have been bogus reports. But why do so many think it's impossible for a PW to get cancer ?

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Outta the hospital...
Current mood: crappy

Whew, I'm finally home from the hospital! OMG, those few days were probably the worst I've ever experienced... Painful and so, so scary!

I went into the ER last week (Thursday) feeling awful; I was sick in my tummy, feelin' weak and I kept passing out for a few minutes at a time. They did some tests and found there was something wrong with my heart, like only half of it was working right. They explained how your heart has 4 chambers and not all of mine were functioning. So they admitted me to do some tests and find out what was wrong.

Sometime during the first night I was there, my heart stopped beating. They got it started again, moved me into the ICU and immediated put in a temporary pacemaker, to make sure that wasn't gonna happen again. They put a huge, long plastic catheter into my jugular vein in my neck, going all the way down into my heart. Then they fed some wires and stuff down the tube and secured them with some weird-ass balloon thingy. The wires led out to a temporary pacemaker that was just hanging their with all my other IV equipment. They thought they might have to put in a permenant one, but after monitoring me without any further incident they decided they didn't need to.

So they let me come home late Wednesday night. And now I'm here at home resting and recovering and waiting for my appointment with the heart doctor. We don't know what happened to my heart or what's wrong with it... I gotta start seeing this cardiologist so we can figure all that out.

I'm supposed to be on complete bedrest all weekend, so I'm gonna close this blog for now. I wanted to update ya'll on my situation; it was terrifying but I'll be okay. Here's a pic of me in ICU from a few days ago. I look shitty, but it's real.

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