It’s been a long summer and, unfortunately, not much time to be able to get on here and post anything. Fuat’s 13 year old sister, Menekse, was with us for the summer and he has just taken her home yesterday ( honey please hurry home… I miss you!) . We had a great summer, and we were able to take her to a lot of great places including: Michigan for the Annual Whitney Family Strawberry Party Washington DC for July 4th fireworks ( very cool by the way) Virginia Beach Cedar Point Atlantic City Niagara Falls New York City I really have to give credit to all of you that…

The pain never goes away my Ker-Bear. I never stop missing you, I never stop wishing I had said more, done more while I still had the chance.   People say it gets easier with time, but to me it just seems to get harder. There is never a day I don’t think about you. There is almost never a day I don’t shed a tear… I miss you so much my sweet sister. Today… the day you left us…  Today I will miss you more than most days… Today I will cry more than most days… Today my heart will break more than most days… I love you Kerrie.. and…

We went bowling the other night. Me, Fuat, his sister Menekse, our friends Nate and Gizem… and Kerrie. I was standing on the lane, picking up my bowling ball (with the hand that hasn’t had surgery yet) and I heard Kerrie’s voice saying “Let’s go bowling”  We were in elementary school, I think Kerrie was maybe in the 1st or 2nd grade, and we were driving by the Union Lake Bowling Alley and Kerrie was pleading with Mom and Dad, “Let’s go bowling”. Kerrie was on a kids bowling league, and was pretty good, I tried it a few times and WOW was I bad. The first time I bowled…

It’s been one year since the day of my surgery… a year since I had a cigarette…I wish I had paid more attention to that last one, but threw it out without thinking about it as I walked in for Surgery.. no last “drag”.. no thinking… just being scared about the surgery and the prognosis.  Anything I could say about today has already been said. My mom said it all in the gallery… Love you all Jenn

Hi everyone,  I have tried so hard to keep updates on here as frequent as possible, but the time just gets away from me ( as I am sure it does everyone) and finding a few minutes free time to write posts is difficult. I’m home alone at the moment, so am taking this bit of peace and quit as a good opportunity to get on and write a few words. It’s been a year… a year since Fuat arrived in the country, a year since my diagnosis, a year since we got married … sometimes it seems like it’s gone by so quickly, sometimes it seems like it has…

Hi Everyone,  Yes.. I have been horrible about getting updates on the page. This spring has been so hectic, and SO many things have gone on that it seems there is never enough time to write everything I want to write. I spend lots of time writing posts in my head, and day dream about coming to the site to put the post on here, but finding time to make it reality has been hard.  Mom I PROMISE you I will make more time to do this. I have lots of things I want to update everyone on, but first I think it’s important to let everyone know what’s going…

Well as I sit here in my office, 2 hours away from closing time, I can finally say another opening day is behind me and I survived J I must say I look fabulous in my black and gold attire ( Mandated by our GM J ) and am ready to show that Kings Dominion employees support VCU in their run for the Championship.  We Kings Dominion people wear the VCU colors proudly ( especially if you are mandated to do this by your GM).. even if it means you have to go out and buy a new suit and a new scarf, because you don’t have anything black and gold.…

Hi everyone, Things have been busy as usual, but wanted to give a few quick updates on me and on Teena! Teena left the rehab hospital, in Ohio, and is now staying with her daughter and son-in-law. The address I listed here, for cards, is their address so you can still use this one if you want to send her things. She has use of her cell phone now, so if you have her number feel free to give her a call or text. When I spoke with her the other day she sounded fantastic.. though she did tell me she’d had a beer. TEENA…. NO BEER. Even if you…

My apologies to everyone checking for updates on Teena. It’s been a hectic 10 days and I could barely get to the internet to post anything. Teena has been doing well and her Family has moved her back to Ohio to continue her Rehab. They moved her on Wednesday.. sorry I didn’t get an update on here about it.  She’s in Hillside Hospital, in Warren Ohio and will be there for at least two weeks. After that time, she should be moving to her daughter’s house where she will hopefully be able to have in-home rehab or outpatient rehab. She’s been doing great and definetely showing us her “Teena Spirit”….…

Teena has started physical therapy. She’s not happy about it, but she’s doing it. When I asked her what they did, she said “nothing much”, but then the nurse told me Teena had been sitting in a chair for about 5 hours. Wow!  It took Kerrie a long time to be able to sit in a chair for that long. Pretty darn good for a first day Teena. Whether she realizes it or not… sitting up, getting out of bed and sitting in a chair IS physical therapy. Soon she will be begging to sit in the chair again… I am sure Kerrie is with her, laughing and saying “Yeah..…