Family Heart, Finches, The Pole, Side Yard, Peppermint and Oh Boy

 In my last post I mentioned

family history.

The Montgomery side of 

my family history.

First off, let me say that I 

did not of the work it takes to 

come up with all this info.

It was sent to me by a cousin,

relative I located through my mom

before she passed. She is also on 

the FB page for our family.

I have actually gone to Nashville

to the Library and Archives and 

got some copies of stuff 

needed and 

sent to her.

Anyway, she keeps up 

with all the 

info with the family and she

has us traced back to my 

3rd great grandfather. 

Of course, I do not have a pic

of my 3rd great grandfather 

but I do have

a pic of my grandfather 

and grandma.

Elgin and Betty.

This is a pic of my dad with my

younger brother and I.

I see my dad in his dad.

My mom had blonde hair early in

her life and so did both my

brothers, however, dads was just 

about black as was mine, at 

one time.

My dad had brown eyes but the 

three of us brats had 

moms coloring

in the eyes, hazel. I did 

have the same

coloring skin as my 

dad, olive like 

color is what I think they call it.

Anyway, reason for 

my thoughts 

of the Montgomery 

history is for 

health reason. But, 

unfortunately, tracking

what I wish to know would be

close to impossible.

You see my daughter Amber,

has been having 

palpations and some

skip like events. 

I explained to her that 

perimenopause 

and hormone issues could 

cause that 

sort of thing. He had 

mentioned it to 

her doc once before and 

when it started

to pick up, they put a 

heart monitor on her

for 3 days. She wrote 

each event she felt.

When all this was read, 

it appeared to 

be just one of those 

things, hormones prob.

But the doc wanted 

to put her on 

a beta blocker. This did 

not feel the right 

move to me, cause the 

event that did show up on 

the monitor that the doc 

questioned was one

Amber did not write 

down cause she did not 

feel it. I was a bit more 

concerned after that

for questionable reasons, 

you see heart disease runs in 

my family. 

My grandfather, Elgin, 

had cirrhosis of the liver,

he was a drinker, but he also had 

heart issues. When I 

say heart issues, 

back then there were 

not specific 

names for something like that.

This passed to my dad, 

and all the 

other five siblings, then named,

cardiomyopathy. At that point, 

there was basically just 

one cardiomyopathy, not a group

of different types. Cardiomyopathy is

basically, a term used for the heart. 

Unfortunately, my older brother has

cardiomyopathy, aFib and 

asthma.

But it did not stop there.

Chase, Ray's son has 

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, 

thickening of the heart wall.

Chase's oldest son Cole, 

who is not 13, has WPW,

Wolfe Parkinson White.

I was told when Cole 

went through

a producer for this that it 

was not connected to the 

cardiomyopathy that runs in 

the family.

Cole is the youngest in the pic.

I don't have a newer one of him.

WPW is where there is an extra pathway

in the heart that fires 

causing palpations.

They went in and 

cauterizing that pathway.

Cole had that done 

and is doing well.

But when Amber read 

that palpations was

a sign of WPW, she got concerned. 

I called Chase, not my 

brother cause you 

always don't get all the

info from him.

I knew Chase was the 

one I needed to talk

with. I just wanted to 

check that I was 

correct in remembering 

that WPW is not

connected to the cardio 

end of our family.

This is when I found out 

that once they found

out Cole had WPW, the 

docs at Vandy wanted

to check Chase, it turns

 out not only does

he have cardiomyopathy 

he has WPW also.

Docs wanted to test Paige, 

Chases sister.

With that info, Chase

 and I decided

Amber needed to see 

a doc at vandy.

She made the appt. and 

so happens, we

ended up with Ray, 

Chase and Coles

doc. They are going to do an echocardiogram 

but don't think there is 

anything to worry about.

But now, I have to have 

a genetic test for the 

cardiomyopathy gene 

and the WPW gene.

If I have, chances are 

both my kids have.

But, I can have the gene 

and not have the

disease. With all that said,

 I get tested

Aug. 14. 

Now back to the family history, 

I thought it would be interesting 

to know if any other lines in my

family tree have this issue. But like

I said, impossible to find out. 

Let me also throw out there, before I

end this heart felt post, 

my dads sister passed this to 

her two daughters who passed it 

to their two daughters.

Now, moving on...

Still, birds do not like this feeder.

Only visitors I get to it are

the finches. 

I love when they stop and stare

into the camera. I was going to hang

on a pole that I concreted into a large planter 

BUT, image how hard that is to 

do by yourself!

Got that picture in your head yet?

I had the planter in a level spot next

to the porch, put the pole in and 

tied it to the porch rails to keep 

it from falling over once I 

put the concrete in and added the 

water, fast sitting concrete.

Well, I did not have it straight.

 

With some wiggling and jigging

I got it out of the pot,

then after letting it lay there 

a few days I was able

to break it up.

Gotta try again when I have help.

Just a shot of the side yard

where I had the wall put in.

This area was supposed to be a flowerbed,

but the heat moved in and keeping

it clear of grass, I decided to let it 

grow up and treat it like part of 

the yard.

This reminds me of 

peppermint.

Just got the word on Wed.

number 6 great grandchild is a boy.

Number 5 is a boy also and 

number 4 was a boy.

 

Must be the year of the boy.

Of course, Brayden (upcoming 

dad) is one of four boys, 

so, I think boys are in the genes!

With only two girls, the 

boys win!

haha...

Who was the last baby in 

born in your family?

When was that?

This will be three in a yr

and one month for this family.

 

 Pam