Posted on May 27 at 11:16 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Oi! So glad to stumble across your blog. In the late 90's I hosted exchange students from Brazil 3 different years. The first family invited my daughter and I to come vaction with them for 2 weeks in 1996. Wonderful memories of Rio, Santos, Parati and Sao Paulo. Saw a bunch of those Soccer fans......crazy excitement. Please keep blogging and bringing back memories. I am going to tell my Brazilian daughters about your blog.
On Casino in works for Beloit?
Posted on May 17 at 9:06 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Rumor about town is that the fancy new road going in just south of Interstate 43 and east of I 90/39 at Beloit is being built for Casino access. Has anyone noticed the fancy lightposts and tree-lined landscaping. And all the traffic circles at Hart road, where are they going too? Where is the money for all that landscaping coming from in these tough times?
Posted on April 12 at 9:40 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I think "janesvillecomments" got it right when he\she said "I thought the old argument about rider rights vs helmet laws was based on the notion that insurance companies were paying out way too much money for head injury and trauma treatment for helmet-less rider accidents compared to helmeted rider accidents, so the insurance companies used their lobbying efforts to get the original helmet laws passed."
30 years ago when I lived in Germany we were told that if you didn't wear your seatbelt and you got in an accident with injury, your personal injury claim would automatically be reduced 50% because you didn't take the necessary precautions to reduce injury. Therefore you were half at fault for the injuries. Didn't matter who caused the accident. So if folks don't want to wear helmits or seatbelts, they have personal choice. But my personal choice is not to have my insurance rates increased because we all have to cover the extra medical and disability claims.
Posted on January 23 at 1:13 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Something I would like to recommend to other Cancer patients out there. There is a free website builder available to anyone facing any type of medical ordeal. It is an awesome way to let your family and friends know how your treatments are going without having to call everyone individually or a way to let them know when you are in need of support. There is room to write a journal, places to post pictures and your friends can leave messages in your guestbook. You don’t have to be a computer geek to use this as it is so simple and is private to only those you invite to the site. Also, there are inspiring examples of others journals that are amazing to read. Go to CaringBridge. Free Websites That Support And Connect Loved Ones During Critical Illness. http://www.caringbridge.org/
Posted on January 23 at 1:01 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
John,
Your caregivers must look forward to your visits as your ability to find the humor in cancer is inspiring. Like you I come from a family that has been overwhelmed with cancer the last 12 years. My sister, my father and my brother all have had Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Another brother had colon cancer and I had breast cancer. But, for the first time in 12 years, none of us is in treatment. Hallelujah!!
It has been 3 years since the start of my treatments and yesterday I had my quarterly oncology appointment. What a thrill it was to be told that. I didn't have to come back for 6 months and didn't need blood work for my next visit. To the “cancer free” that may not sound like a big deal, but after all those weekly appointments, chemo, surgery and tons of lab work, I feel as though I have just emerged from behind a huge prison door.
The doctors told my brothers family 3 times that they didn’t think he’d make out of the hospital, but finally after under going a high risk stem-cell transplant, he is cancer free and has been back to work for over a year.
I’ll be watching to see you come out from behind that door!! Thanks for taking us along on your journey.
On I’ve got cancer, but the cancer doesn’t have me
Posted on January 15 at 6:18 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
It has been 3 years. Three years since I got the call. "There is something on your mammogram; we need to take some more pictures." Three years since I felt like I was trapped in one of those snow globes and just when things start to settle down, someone comes along and shakes everything up again. For my 50th birthday I got the biopsy results, malignant, breast cancer. I couldn't feel it, I couldn't see it, and I didn't feel sick. How could that be? That would all change over the next two years. I think what angered me most is that my life went on hold while I fought the beast. It made me fight harder, I wanted my life back. So many appointments, too many waiting rooms, so many surgeries (five), chemotherapy, side effects, so many tests I lost count. I never saw it, I never felt it, but it changed me forever. I found common bonds and formed new friendships with my pink ribbon sisters, I discovered how incredibly tolerant and my husband can be, I felt the love and support of family and friends and I found out that hair does indeed grow back. It would be poetic to end the story that way, but Cancer isn’t poetic. Surgery complications continue to haunt me. Despite reconstruction, scars and misshapen features are a daily reminder. Now I can feel it, now I can see it, sometimes it makes me stronger; sometimes it just makes me sick.
John, wishing you strength, endurance and love of others as you fight to conquer your beast.
On Lake Geneva plays ringmaster to historic circus wagons
Posted on September 18 at 4:58 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Does anyone know how they are getting the wagons there? I would love to watch the train pass by.
On Milton man killed in I-90 motorcycle accident
Posted on July 24 at 2:59 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Moby6400, I realize that you are passionate about what you write, but please be passionate for this family and not use this forum for a political or media commentary. I am sure you can find another outlet. To the entire Huber clan, those around you admire what a close and loving family you are. I pray that your closeness will help you during this tough time. Donna, Jeanne, Mary, Peggy, your friends at LSS are all thinking of you.
On New hospital planned in Janesville
Posted on April 11 at 4:22 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
As someone who lives outside of town - Clinton, it is exciting to see this new location that is easily accessible for emergency services. Trauma and heart attack victims will appreciate not having to navigate slow city streets, lights and trains to get to Mercy Hospital.
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On Grainger, jobs and TIF money
Posted on December 22 at 11:32 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Wow Steve, You really didn't do you homework on this one. Perhap's your personal experience of being let go from Grainger is clouding your judgement. As for the vacant buildings on Enterprise drive, did you verify if the TIF money was paid, earned or paid back or are you just theorizing? TIFs are not handouts. There are very specific criteria that a company agrees to meet or the money is not earned, usually in the form of tax forgiveness. If not, then you pay full taxes. Yes it is montiored. Any business has a choice where to build facilities and TIFs are a way to attract them. Grainger recently did extensive building to make room for 300 new jobs in Janesville, they could have located those jobs somewhere else. You accuse Grainger of being "cash rich" as though it were a bad thing. Seems like exactly the type of smart company that our city should be attracting.