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Dear William, Daniel, Catherine, Michael, and Sarah, (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

For quite a long time now, my hips have been hurting me. At first, they hurt when I would lie down — no matter which way I was facing, they hurt — face up, they hurt; on my side, facing right, they hurt; facing left, they hurt (but less so, because I would see Babcia Kryisa, and that made it better).

Over time, my hips started hurting from just standing — NO FUN to be at a cocktail party!

So, I started taking Advil PM — 2 tablets each night. That would put me to sleep, even thought the pain was still there.

I told my doctor about this, but he was not particularly impressed — he told me to see an orthopedist; and told me I may need hip replacement surgery.

SURGERY!!! My sister Olenka had hip replacement surgery several years ago — this is not something I would be looking forward to.

Over time, the pain decreased; BUT, then my knees started to hurt also. Bacia Krysia told me that I was too heavy, and I was crushing myself. (I AM heavy — 317 lbs.!)

NOT a pretty picture 🙁

Babcia Krysia bought me a cane — which I do not need for regular walking; but, is VERY helpful when I need to climb or go-down stairs.

A few days ago, when I was visiting my doctor for my quarterly blood test, I convinced him that it may be a good idea to get some X-Rays of my hips and knees — he was noncommittal, but he did give me a recipe so that I could get the X-Rays.

Today, I was driving by the X-Ray place, so I stopped in and got X-Rayed:

These are my hips.

My Hips X-Ray Report

These are my knees.

My Knees X-Ray Report

Bottom line — things do not look that bad (but, it hurts). But, the alternative could be worse — I could be pushing up daisies.

If you want to catch-up on some of my other medical adventures, you may want to read HERE and HERE — I had other medical adventures, but I will save those for some other day.

Now, I have to get back to work.

Love,

Dziadziuś Paweł.

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February 5, 2017 — New Third Cousin (Magdalena Maczynska)

Dear William, Daniel, Catherine, Michael, and Sarah, (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

Congratulations! You have a NEW Third Cousin! Her name is Magdalena Maczynska, and she was born on February 1, 2017, in Warszawa Poland.

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Probably, the easiest way for you to understand this Family Tree is to print it out, and then paste the pages together (each next to each other) — to do so, go HERE.

As you can see from this Family Tree, Magdalena is the daughter of Marek’s, Rysiu’s, & Malgosia’s Second Cousin, Kasia Maczynska (nee Tomala), who is the daughter of my First Cousin, Roza Tomala (nee Bobrowska), who is the daughter of my Dad’s sister, Teresa Bobrowska (nee Kostro).

I met Kasia (Magdalena’s Mom), when Malgosia, John, Marek, Kelly, Babcia Krysia and I traveled to Poland in 2006 — I started telling you about that trip HERE (unfortunately, I never got around to telling you the rest of that story — maybe I will have a chance to do so soon).

Anyway, on our second day in Poland, we attended a dinner hosted by my First Cousin Roza and her family. That is when I met Kasia.