Bone Marrow Transplant: Team Jerry Hat Winners
Monday, April 25, 2011 at 12:33AM This is the seventh installment of the story of Jerry's Bone Marrow Transplant, which details my father-in-law's life saving bone marrow transplant at Johns Hopkins Cancer Center in Baltimore. Read the previous installment - Part Six: Updates and Jokes for Jerry
The random number generator spit out the numbers 5 and 11. The winners of Team Jerry hats are Lorraine and Debbie! Congratulations. I'll be contacting you for your hat colors this week. Thank you to everyone who submitted jokes!! Jerry enjoyed them all and got some good laughs.
I also got a great shot of Maddy and Jerry together today at our Easter lunch.
Don't they look great? Jerry was able to take off his mask for a bit and we had a wonderful lunch with the family. We are heading home tomorrow and are happy to be leaving with Jerry feeling well. Maddy and Jerry will be here until the end of May, being monitored and going to the hospital everyday for tests and treatment. Here's hoping that things continue to go well.
Read the next installment - Part Eight: Jerry 3000
Bone Marrow Transplant, Health in Family
Reader Comments (6)
Beautiful photo of two beautiful people. Go Team Jerry!
All our love to you all. xo
Beautiful shot of Maddy & Jerry!!
Have a safe trip back to NJ. I look forward to receiving a Team Jerry hat. I will wear it proudly!!!!!
Hi Debbie! Can you send me an email with your mailing address and the color of hat that you would like? We have pink, green, black and grey. Just reply to one of the emails I have sent you. (I can't figure out which is your email address in the long list I have.) Thanks!
What a lovely shot! We're rooting for you! xx
So, what is the joke? The photo is as wonderful as the two in the photograph. Hope to see you soon. kisses, F and K
Florence, do you mean the winning joke? I used the number generator to pick two random jokes, but if you go back to the post and scroll down to the comments, you can read all of them: Jokes for Jerry
Also, here is one of Jerry's all time favorite jokes:
How to Capture a Gorilla
As he is quietly watching television at home, a man hears a sound on the roof of his house and rushes out to investigate.
Seeing it is a fair-sized gorilla tearing the shingles off his home, he promptly calls up the local zoo autorities to inform them one of their animals had escaped.
He is reassured that a gorilla recovering unit is on the way and to remain calm.
A few minutes later, an old beat up truck, displaying the Gorilla recovery unit logo on its panels, pulls up to the house.
The elderly driver takes from the back of the truck a chihuahua dog, a pair of handcuffs, a ladder, a baseball bat and a 12 gauge shotgun.
Puzzled on how this lone elderly was to solve the problem of this gorilla who had by now torn half the roof apart, the chap ask him how he will go about doing this.
As he hands him over the .12 gauge shotgun, the zoo employee explains the plan:
"First I'll climb up there with the ladder, then I approach the gorilla and knock him off the roof using the baseball bat;
As soon as the gorilla hits the ground, the specially trained chihuahua dog will attack its private parts. When I get back on the ground, the gorilla will have lowered its hands to its groin area to protect itself thus making it easy for me to slip on the handcuffs.
Then, I lead him to the truck, lock him up and take him back to the zoo."
Amazed at the procedure, the somewhat startled house owner asks why he was handed the .12 gauge shotgun?
"Well... " explains the experienced gorilla retriever, "It's just a precaution should things not go exactly as planned.
In the unlikely event that once on the roof the gorilla knocks me off with the baseball bat, shoot the dog."