It's me Courtney :)
I am quite disappointed in myself for not writing a post in what a year....? :(
ANYWAYS onto this update. I will just start from what I can remember haha
December 2015:
We had a wonderful Christmas, all of the family together, what more could you ask for? That month I got all I ever wanted, a healthy life. However this Christmas was the beginning to what was ahead. My grandma and papa got my brother and I a large gift that year. (I will not speak of what is was) As we opened our presents (which Papa always liked to make it a game to open gifts) we stood there in shock as what we were given. Me being my jokingly self said dang y'all (papa & gma) this is a big gift, are y'all planning on dying or something? Papa replies with his smirk/laugh and replied with well you never know do you? We played it off as we always do and continue to live life. Trevor and I are still confused through many days ahead lol.
January 2016:
Overall it was a pretty good month, I had a great job, health is amazing, and life was just LIFE.
February:
It was a good yet hectic month. I turned the big 27, and still was in love with what my life had been lately.
March:
This was the start of a VERY chaotic next few months. My Papa (Joe) started becoming sick in ways that he just didn't feel that good. We brushed it off and blamed it on his COPD as the reason he couldn't breathe that well. Gma then called to tell us papa was in the hospital because his blood pressure was up and down all weekend. I am not allowed to go to hospitals as it's very risky germ wise, but no one was stopping me from seeing Papa. I visited him everyday and he acted normal with him joking to the nurse asking her for a match, she said a match for what?? He said I want to smoke a cigarette, she looked at him like he was crazy and he couldn't hold in his laughter. He joked with every nurse he had, just like I do. After a couple more days of his BP going up and down so much they decided to do an ablation on his heart. They did and it worked. He went home. :) We had to spend Easter in the hospital but that was fine by me. 
We also celebrated Paisley's birthday (my dog) with endless cuddles and her acting in the crazy way that she does.
We also celebrated Paisley's birthday (my dog) with endless cuddles and her acting in the crazy way that she does.
April:
For Christmas in December I asked for Carrie Underwood tickets as that was ALL I wanted. lucky me my mom got me tickets to see her in Louisiana. Alison, my mom and I, headed to Louisiana and man what a concert. It was amazing in every way and form! I was complete. When we got home, I had to go show gam & papa all the pictures and videos I took from the trip. Grandma loved it and Papa said he didn't know what all she said but he sure was happy that I got to go..... he said it sure does make Papa happy to see his favorite granddaughter having fun. 
May:
I will have to admit that this was one of the worst months I had since my transplant in 2012. Our last weenie dog Duece passed away and after all of those sad days. Papa STILL didn't feel good so he went to the ER at the end of April, they transported him to Arlington and he got worse very fast, because of the ablation he had at Baylor Irving, it caused him to suffer from MANY strokes. He lost movement in his right arm and leg. On May 5th, grandma's birthday was spent in the hospital because of Papa not feeling well but on that day, He had one of the best days he had in a long time. He was laughing, carrying on, joking, causing trouble and overall making us laugh all day. After that day we had decided as a family to take Papa home to live his last days in this world.
On May 7th, he was not doing well at all. He kept having endless strokes, covering his entire brain. It was then that we realized he wasn't coming home. After praying endlessly for him to just be at peace, he finally was, they moved him to the Palliative care and he stopped talking. HOWEVER he would only speak to me and Trevor. :) Yeah we are THAT special. lol
That day I said Papa, he responded with huh? (typical answer from him) I said I love you, and with every ounce of strength he responded with love you too. Many people tried to get him to talk but his stubbornness he wouldn't haha only for me :)
The following day May 8th, around 2am, he left this world to begin his forever home in heaven. Of course he did all of this on Mother's Day. Typical White family fashion. But that's okay.
We had a ton of family and friends come visit. Most of all going to his viewing for Joe White being the "quiet" man that he is had over 125 people show up to honor him. If that doesn't show you how much of an impact he made in this world I don't know what will. His service was beautiful as it should be.
He was an amazing husband, brother, father, uncle, and most of all Papa. His impact still blows me away.
Little did we know that Papa was going out with a bang, literally. He left us with lets see, drama, a move, cleaning out his "garage" and Lord knows what else.
On May 8th, I took one of my grandma's anniversary cards that he had given to her. I went and got his last words tattooed on my wrist "love you" it is HIS handwriting, the end is a cloud with a semi colon as this is just a "pause" in life and we will eventually pick up where we left off.
June:
We survived this month as it was a tough one, but we made it. We finally convinced gma to get her eye checked out because it was not looking good at all. So she did, she had surgery to remove her bump under her eye. They told her the "lump" was cancer but not active so he wanted her to do some radiation treatment for precaution. Ha yeah that didn't happen. Long story short she is 81 years old and you are never promised tomorrow so why should she put up with all that crap for a "just in case" situation. After Papa went home she told everyone she is going to TRAVEL. :)
Her sense of independence was really tested the first month. BUT she wanted to travel so we travelled all the way to Fort Worth Stockyards. We had lunch, walked around and had such a great time even if she only could see through one eye. :)
The memories we made that month were incredible.
I took off some days from work as I felt I should. June 7th I ended up in the hospital (I forget why) and I had to get a central line placed as I don't have anymore viable veins in my arms. The central line hurt like well lets just say it hurt BAD. As I woke from my surgery I got my phone to text my friends and family. I had a two paragraph text from my BOSS firing me. They said I was taking my health more serious than my job. hahaha damn right I am. I won't get into that it makes me so mad but I clearly didn't need that negativity in my life.
July:
It was a hard month because I was so upset over my job. I LOVED that job.
This month we celebrated Onyx's birthday. I don't really remember much from this month lol
I had my transplant appointment which went fabulous along with my outfit!!! :)
August: No idea what happened haha
September: This month I celebrated my BEST FRIEND/SISTER birthday, she finally caught up with me in age. :) I love you Kristin Brook!
On Sept. 8th, I got this little beauty. 2017 Subaru WRX
October: I decided to start up my quilted bag making business as I have been slacking because of all the stress and what have you. After many hours I finally got the website up and going so check it out. :) Splash of Designs it's pretty awesome if I do say so myself. :)
This was also the month that we cleaned out the entire house and property as we know Papa was a "collector" of good stuff. Bless his heart he helped many families survive including us. Scrapper Joe was THE man known around Irving. :) This was his bicycles he had, he gave so many little kids a bike if they didn't have one.
We had a garage sale and oh my lordy there were MANY items. We got rid of it all, but I know we did give some stuff away and I think he might haunt us for doing that. haha oh and Papa I only gave away my stuff, the other items take up with grandma, dad, and aunt sheila. :)
October 8th, 2016. 5 months later with endless hours of working so hard the past year we celebrated papa in a good way. Aunt Sheila bought a fire pit, we lit it and just thought about everything that's happened in life. It was so peaceful.
After the garage sale literally ONE day after it all on October 9th we had brunch with some of my favorite people to celebrate my FOUR year transplant anniversary. It was so great to see almost everyone, it makes me feel so incredibly loved, by everyone.
This sums up my life this year so far.....
Thank you to everyone for always being there for me anytime I need you.
Thank you LORD for giving me one of the best angels that I don't even know who gave her life to save mine.
I don't have enough words to say how I feel about everyone. You will never know.
God Bless you all. Your in my life for a reason, my friends are not friends they are FAMILY and always will be.
xoxo,
Courtney
We had a ton of family and friends come visit. Most of all going to his viewing for Joe White being the "quiet" man that he is had over 125 people show up to honor him. If that doesn't show you how much of an impact he made in this world I don't know what will. His service was beautiful as it should be.
He was an amazing husband, brother, father, uncle, and most of all Papa. His impact still blows me away.
Little did we know that Papa was going out with a bang, literally. He left us with lets see, drama, a move, cleaning out his "garage" and Lord knows what else.
On May 8th, I took one of my grandma's anniversary cards that he had given to her. I went and got his last words tattooed on my wrist "love you" it is HIS handwriting, the end is a cloud with a semi colon as this is just a "pause" in life and we will eventually pick up where we left off.
June:
We survived this month as it was a tough one, but we made it. We finally convinced gma to get her eye checked out because it was not looking good at all. So she did, she had surgery to remove her bump under her eye. They told her the "lump" was cancer but not active so he wanted her to do some radiation treatment for precaution. Ha yeah that didn't happen. Long story short she is 81 years old and you are never promised tomorrow so why should she put up with all that crap for a "just in case" situation. After Papa went home she told everyone she is going to TRAVEL. :)
Her sense of independence was really tested the first month. BUT she wanted to travel so we travelled all the way to Fort Worth Stockyards. We had lunch, walked around and had such a great time even if she only could see through one eye. :)
The memories we made that month were incredible.
I took off some days from work as I felt I should. June 7th I ended up in the hospital (I forget why) and I had to get a central line placed as I don't have anymore viable veins in my arms. The central line hurt like well lets just say it hurt BAD. As I woke from my surgery I got my phone to text my friends and family. I had a two paragraph text from my BOSS firing me. They said I was taking my health more serious than my job. hahaha damn right I am. I won't get into that it makes me so mad but I clearly didn't need that negativity in my life.
July:
It was a hard month because I was so upset over my job. I LOVED that job.
This month we celebrated Onyx's birthday. I don't really remember much from this month lol
I had my transplant appointment which went fabulous along with my outfit!!! :)
August: No idea what happened haha
September: This month I celebrated my BEST FRIEND/SISTER birthday, she finally caught up with me in age. :) I love you Kristin Brook!
On Sept. 8th, I got this little beauty. 2017 Subaru WRX
October: I decided to start up my quilted bag making business as I have been slacking because of all the stress and what have you. After many hours I finally got the website up and going so check it out. :) Splash of Designs it's pretty awesome if I do say so myself. :)
This was also the month that we cleaned out the entire house and property as we know Papa was a "collector" of good stuff. Bless his heart he helped many families survive including us. Scrapper Joe was THE man known around Irving. :) This was his bicycles he had, he gave so many little kids a bike if they didn't have one.
We had a garage sale and oh my lordy there were MANY items. We got rid of it all, but I know we did give some stuff away and I think he might haunt us for doing that. haha oh and Papa I only gave away my stuff, the other items take up with grandma, dad, and aunt sheila. :)
October 8th, 2016. 5 months later with endless hours of working so hard the past year we celebrated papa in a good way. Aunt Sheila bought a fire pit, we lit it and just thought about everything that's happened in life. It was so peaceful.
After the garage sale literally ONE day after it all on October 9th we had brunch with some of my favorite people to celebrate my FOUR year transplant anniversary. It was so great to see almost everyone, it makes me feel so incredibly loved, by everyone.
This sums up my life this year so far.....
Thank you to everyone for always being there for me anytime I need you.
Thank you LORD for giving me one of the best angels that I don't even know who gave her life to save mine.
I don't have enough words to say how I feel about everyone. You will never know.
God Bless you all. Your in my life for a reason, my friends are not friends they are FAMILY and always will be.
xoxo,
Courtney
