This blog is about me and the life I am living here in Tampa, Florida. It will cover all the events that happen here with me and my family. I am going through some rough times at this point of my life. I have cancer and I am battling with  that. Although, God has blessed me. I am on the liver transplant list. I have great doctors that are working on my case. God reached out and given me a chance to beat this cancer and get my life back. So I can return to taking care of my wonderful family, who has stood by me this whole time with prayers and wishes that I get better! My Angel, has worked tirelessly to take care of me every time I come home from the hospitals, every time I have a set back and lose all my energy to go and do things. Or go places with her,  help with the shopping, be able to help her out around the and just be the man she knows and loves. This cancer keeps you from being yourself. I always run out of energy after being active and out and about, like a normal person. When that happens, I end up stuck in bed for a day or two. Just getting up to have a bite of food with her is all I can do. Although I enjoy learning all about this blogging stuff here on line! As I learn more, the more I will be able to do here. So this page will grow as I learn how to make the most of this site!!

Here is the good news!!

I have been losing weight for some time now. I was at 240 lbs. and I started to lose weight. Now I am at 230 lbs. and I have been for this whole week. I have not gained any weight or lost any more weight. So I am kinda happy about my weight now. My doctors are pleased and my blood pressure is at it`s best standing in years. It was at 116 over 85 today and it only goes up or down by a few numbers either way. So I am doing great, these days! I would love for my mom to be doing the same thing. I have changed my diet, I no longer eat red meat or pork. I only eat fresh fruit and vegetables, fish and chicken. I am very careful about the grains I eat too, instead of eating as much as I wanted, I now only have a small portion of rice or pasta. Plus Angel, has been watching over everything I eat or drink. She has been steady as rock, keeping me on track. You gotta love someone who puts that much love and caring, into you every day of the week!! She is my rock! I wish I could make her life as easy as possible. She deserves every wonderful thing that could possibly happen to someone. She should win the lottery!! Or get to go to Scotland on a all expenses paid trip!! At the very least, She should be able to get to see a doctor for her aches and pains. So she and I can go play darts again, that would be a dream come true for me!! We really loved playing darts. We used to be dart captains on a team in New York. We would go out every Thursday night and play with a team of darts nuts until the bars closed. It was great fun, the bars would feed us dinner, gave us cheap drinks. I always drank for free because I did not drink beer or wine. So my sodas were free. We really loved our dart teams. We were on a dart team every year from 2000 to 2008 those were some fun times and we got to meet some great people!! We were dart captains from 2005 to 2007. So during those times of playing darts and being captains on dart teams, we always seem to have some where to be on a Thursday night! We would even meet up with our friends and play darts on the weekends. It was just that much fun!! What other sport is there, where you can go out, have a ton of fun and eat, drink and throw sharp pointy objects in a public place??? Really, where can you do that?? I loved being in New York, it has become my home! I miss being there, I miss the kids there and I even miss the silly cable channels. We had things like the weather channel for Long Island...It showed the weather happening at that moment plus it showed traffic for our area, local streets and the L.I.E. Expressway! When it snowed this was the best channel to watch, They would interview the snow drivers and find out the local street conditions. Then they show just how deep the snow was piling up. And they would all ways try to tell you just how snow was expected..they were not always right with the amounts, but, they would try. It was funny.  We also had channels that were just like every one else, we had FOX News and all the reg. cable channels. We had our Tea Party meetings and rallies to go to. We always seemed to have places to be and people to see or some where to be seen at!! We were never bored until I got this awful cancer, and our lives changed so fast. We  had money problems and medical problems but, Angel never gave up on me. She was always there for me. The whole time we were having cash flow problems, we never would fight about those things, we just handled all we could and the cash ran out we waited till we had more to carry on. Other things I miss about New York, is the food, there we were able to go to a diner and get a decent meal, a roll and butter with a cup of 7-11 coffee. That is living!! A decent bagel. A deli, a New York deli!! Where the meats are done right, and the salads like tuna and chicken salads are so big. That when you get them home, and trim off the extra, you have enough left over to make two more salads later on a bagel or a fresh roll or even just reg. bread. Yes, that is what is like living in New York!! Always having the best of everything right at your fingertips. It will spoil you big time. I know, I am spoiled by New York, in the most excellent way!! Even with everything we have been through, even knowing that if we were to go back to New York we would not be able to afford it. I still miss it!! One day, I hope to be able to return and go back to work again. And make the money I used to make there. Then we could afford anything we wanted. Angel made good money and I made good money there. Together we could make some where around $70,000.00 a year! Now that is good money. Even Obama could not tax us enough to stop our life style. He tries real hard to make working people lives a real mess and keep them from climbing out debt and making something of themselves. In New York, you can earn enough to rise above all that crap, and be your own self made man! I only worked a 20 to 30 hour week. Once in a while I work extra hours and would get paid time and half, even if I had yet worked 40 hours, because as a teamster the rules stated, if I had worked my reg. hours, any thing above that was time and half. So I made real good money that way, being a teamster had it`s perks!! Now you can see why New York is my home, it gave me the chance to become a man with a dream! And best of all, New York gave me Angel and the kids!! My family is wonderful and they are my life. New York will always be a big part of my heart! It is why I am who I am today!