Well Christmas was wonderful. On the Sunday before, Pat and Beth had a Christmas Party at their house in Valley Center. It was great. Pat and I drank Seagrams Seven, and the Jack Daniels on the rocks. Poor old Pat passed out. I didn't feel anything. Except I was having a good time. The grandkids were their, and they had lots of people to play with. AJ was around me all the time. I gave her my camera, and she took a lot of pictures. She is so cool.
Christmas Eve, Rick and Eileen, Peter and Leslie went to mass with Atring and I at the Miramar Airmen's Chapel. It was a good mass, and then we came home, drank bourbon, opened presents. and had a great time. Peter and Leslie left about 2 am to go back to Los Angeles..they plan to see Leslie's parents Christmas Day. Tito was unable to make it. He said he was spending Christmas Eve with his sons.
Nathan was unable to make it Christmas Eve because he had to work, but they did show up on Chritmas Day. Driving in the rain from LA, Nathan and Tenisha arrived and we had a great time talking...
Later in the evening Rick took all of us to the movie. We saw "Marley and Me."
They were all bugging me after the movie asking "Did you cry?" Of course I did, (yet another curse of ALS).
But despite that we had a wonderful time. The best part of Christmas has been and always will be the fact that all my sons come home to see Atring and I. That is what I look forward to the most.
I love those boys so much!
Carlsbad Marathon Roll For a Cure Jan 25, 2009
My Family- The greatest
The Cook Men at Thanksgiving
ALS Team Walk At Mission Bay October, 2008
Our ALS Walk was fantastic, the team was fantastic!
My Pogi Sons
Peter, Rick, Nathan, and Tito- the greatest sons a man could have!
The family
Having Fun during Fathers Day!!
Rod, Chuck and Steve in Millington Tennessee August 2008
The Cook boys at it again 2008. Rod and Steve are awesome brothers.
Chuck and Atring
Together Forever. The Love of my Life!
Friday, December 26, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
TwoThings
On the Monday before Thanksgiving my wife and I went to the Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church. We attended a special Mass being held by Father Fernando Suarez. He is a great Filipino priest who has the ability through Jesus to heal people. I am not saying he heals everybody, but I have seen and heard about his power. He cautions all that he is not the healer but only the conduit, that the healing comes from Jesus Christ to him. Nevertheless the Mass was good, he gave a great homily. And afterward everyone gathered so he might touch or pray over us, especially those with afflictions. I did, he touched me, but I felt no different. I still had ALS. But I did come away with a feeling that I am not so bad off as others. I pray to God daily to help me deal with my fate, but I know that God will do what he wants with me. That is OK with me. I want to post the prayer Father Fernando gave me.
Mary Mother of the Poor
Charitable Organization
Prayer For Healing
Lord, look upon me with eyes of mercy
May your Healing Spirit rest upon me.
It is through your power that I was created,
since you created me from nothing
You certainly recreated me.
Fill me with the healing power of Your Spirit
May your lifegiving powers flow into my every cell
of my body and into the depths of my soul.
Mend what is broken.
Cast out anything that should not be within me
Rebuild my brokeness
Restore my strength for service in Your Kingdom
Touch my mind with Your Wisdom
That my mouth may always proclaim Your praise.
Teach me to reach out to You in my need and help
me to lead others to You by my example.
Bring me health in body and spirit that I may serve
You with all my strength. AMEN
Thanksgiving was fantastic. All four of the boys were there and my two grandsons were also there. We went to Rick and Eileen's apartment. Everyone pitched in and made a fantastic dinner. It was all so delicious. I have a hard time eating, but I did manage to eat some food. The food and the family always makes this a very special holiday for me. After dinner we watched some football on TV, and then Atring and I went home. After a while, Peter and I sat down at the table and we had a great discussion. We talked about politics, sports, life in general, work, and many more subjects, but not once did we bring up ALS. I was frantically writing on the white board Leslie had gotten me( I have a hard time speaking intelligibly now).
What we did was not remarkable in any way, except it is the first time someone took time to talk to me about normal stuff and make me feel normal. I thank Peter for that. But I want more of that. The hardest part of this disease is it robs you of your abilities and you see and feel it happening. I am so conscious of the fact that I am losing ability to do the must mundane of things.
So the fact that Peter treated me so normal was pretty great.
Have a great day everyone...I will also.
Mary Mother of the Poor
Charitable Organization
Prayer For Healing
Lord, look upon me with eyes of mercy
May your Healing Spirit rest upon me.
It is through your power that I was created,
since you created me from nothing
You certainly recreated me.
Fill me with the healing power of Your Spirit
May your lifegiving powers flow into my every cell
of my body and into the depths of my soul.
Mend what is broken.
Cast out anything that should not be within me
Rebuild my brokeness
Restore my strength for service in Your Kingdom
Touch my mind with Your Wisdom
That my mouth may always proclaim Your praise.
Teach me to reach out to You in my need and help
me to lead others to You by my example.
Bring me health in body and spirit that I may serve
You with all my strength. AMEN
Thanksgiving was fantastic. All four of the boys were there and my two grandsons were also there. We went to Rick and Eileen's apartment. Everyone pitched in and made a fantastic dinner. It was all so delicious. I have a hard time eating, but I did manage to eat some food. The food and the family always makes this a very special holiday for me. After dinner we watched some football on TV, and then Atring and I went home. After a while, Peter and I sat down at the table and we had a great discussion. We talked about politics, sports, life in general, work, and many more subjects, but not once did we bring up ALS. I was frantically writing on the white board Leslie had gotten me( I have a hard time speaking intelligibly now).
What we did was not remarkable in any way, except it is the first time someone took time to talk to me about normal stuff and make me feel normal. I thank Peter for that. But I want more of that. The hardest part of this disease is it robs you of your abilities and you see and feel it happening. I am so conscious of the fact that I am losing ability to do the must mundane of things.
So the fact that Peter treated me so normal was pretty great.
Have a great day everyone...I will also.
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