And The Winner Is . . .

Johnny would like to thank everyone for their submissions in

The Fighting Toad Asstastic Booty Tattoo Contest!

There were 18 entries and we have the Winner!

~~~ DRUM ROLL, PLEASE ~~~

Third Place goes to Johnny -- Toad himself. (I know he shouldn't get an entry, but he was just so tickled with himself when he thought of it that I didn't have the heart to tell him he couldn't enter his own contest.) His submission was the Bio Hazard Symbol.

Second Place goes to Alan (my brother-in-law). His idea was a Gerbil.
Um, yeah.

and . . . Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner! goes to

DAVE SCHIELE!

The winning submission is of a Toad on a Stool (toilet!). Get it? Toadstool!!! Love it, Dave!!

Dave is the lucky winner of a Fighting Toad t-shirt! Congratulations, Dave!

All silliness aside, you may be wondering how the actual tattooing procedure went today. It was a very simple procedure and Johnny handled it without any issues at all. He was gone from his room for only approximately 20 minutes. The rest of the time he just slept off the sedation and then took me out for a fantastic breakfast. When we got home, we both took a long nap and have basically just stayed indoors the rest of the day.

We are anxious to get to Indy and accomplish the next phase. We had a nice long talk today at breakfast about our hopes and fears and all the emotions that come along with cancer, chemo, and the procedures required to fix you when you are broken. I am so lucky that Johnny is a talker. If I wonder what he is thinking, I ask and he tells. Same in reverse. (It may surprise you to know that I consider myself a "talker", too!)

I'd like to let you all in on a little secret. I do believe that one of the keys to the happiness of our relationship is our ability to talk about EVERYTHING. You should try it -- if you haven't already. You just might like it.


On a very sad note:

Today the Lord brought Jason Arnold home to be with Him. Jason was an original. He was kind, funny, goofy, a good husband/father/friend, and saying he will be missed terribly is an understatement to the Nth degree. So many of you knew Jason and his family and know what a presence he had, no matter where he was.

Jason was helping out at his church on Saturday and fell off a ladder. He took the impact of the fall with his head and suffered severe brain swelling as a result. His injuries were not recoverable.

Please, please, please pray for Jason's wife, Karen, and their two children, Dylan and Alexis. I also ask that you pray for the rest of their family and the close friends that will mourn his loss for a long time to come. This includes my brother-in-law, Alan. He and Jason are life-long friends and this loss is overwhelming.