Friday, 9/12/25, Kimmy came over, than Vikki, we drank our coffee, They found and arrested the suspect who is charged with the murder of Charlie Kirk, Thankful God answered prayers to find him so fast, sat out on the deck for a while,

Me in the ER.  Kimmy wanted to take a picture. My blood pressure was 170/85.  The nurse said it was because of the pain.  My blood pressure is usually normal or low. 

Look at their faucet.  Kimmy and I thought it was pretty funny.  They must be cost cutting.

Jack when we stopped to pick up a watch protector from Melissa 

Evan...it’s amazing how he can hold the big basketball with one hand like he is

Aunt Missy and Rehvyn.  He kept wanting to give everyone hugs and then would pat their backs

Such a sweetie

Kimmy got here around 8:40.  Vikki got her about 10 minutes later.  We all drank our coffees and then watched the news to find out who they had in custody.  Justice will be served now!  We went out on the deck and sat for a while, then at 12:30 I came in and started making lunch.  Vikki and Kimmy came in too.  Vikki made Bill and her egg sandwiches.  Kimmy had a vegetable lasagna and I had a regular lasagna made by Stouffer’s.  Vikki was talking to Misty on the phone.  Gayla called to see if Bill and I want to go to the Rescue Mission Dinner this year and sit with them.  They are sponsoring a table.  Bill was gone, so I told her I would find out from him.  We always go with them.  It is always such a blessing to be there.  

We were relaxing, then I thought about asking one of the girls to take the rack to the big oven roaster downstairs, but decided to do it myself.  I put the rack in, covered the roaster, and then took it into the first room of the basement and  went to put it on the shelf.  As soon as I bent over to put it on the shelf, I felt pain in my back and couldn’t stand up real straight.  Bummer. I sat down and heated the rice sock to put on my back.  I tried ice after that because Jared always tells Kimmy that’s for back muscles.  Warm worked better for me though.  Kenzie and Rehvyn got here and we all had fun watching Rehvyn play.  I felt bad that I was in pain and couldn’t do much with Rehvyn.  I tried laying down, but that made it worse, then I tried the Lazyboy, and that was better.  Eventually though, I was in so much pain (I gave it an 8) that I told Bill I wouldn’t be able to go to the funeral for Michelle’s sister Kat today.  I sure had wanted to go.  He said he would stay home with me a couple of times, but I told him he needed to go.  He was ok with that once Kimmy said she was taking me to Urgent care.  Vikki got ready to pick the kids up.  She offered to make the chili I need to take camping with me for the chili cookout at her house.  Then Kenzie said she was going to make it here for me.  Bill left on the motorcycle.  Kimmy backed her van between Kenzie and Vikkis cars and did great for such a little space to maneuver through.  We were behind Bill until we turned to go to the Urgent care that isn’t a busy one.  When we got close, Vikki called and said Melissa said we should just go to the ER instead.   We headed to the ER.  The traffics so backed up on the other side of the expressway that we, decided we were going home a different way.  We prayed the ER wouldn’t be really busy.  We went through security and Kimmy forgot she had a knife on her.  She took it back out to the van.  I went in and got registered after having my purse searched and walking through the metal detector.  Things sure have changed.  They told me to go back and I got in to have my vitals taken right away.  Then I sat down.  There were only 2 other people in the back waiting room.  The girl had said she would send Kimmy back, but Kimmy sat in the main waiting room so she didn’t get sent back.  I opened the door and called her name so she would know to come with me.  She sat down and told me she forgot she had a tiny knife on her keychain, so she left it in a bag at security so she wouldn’t have to go back out to the van.  She sat down with me then in a few minutes, they took me to an ER room.  I had a really nice nurse.  After I got the gown on, I sat on a chair because I knew the table wouldn’t be comfortable with the back pain.  When the nurse came back in, she asked if I was sitting on the chair because of the back pain and I told her yes.  She said I could sit wherever it was more comfortable.  She told me she had 3 bulging discs.  That’s why she was so compassionate.  I asked her if I could pray for her and she said yes.  I prayed for her and for me for healing in the name of Jesus.  She has a 3 yr. old and a 5 year old, so she needs to not be in pain so she can do her job and also take care of her husband and her kiddos.  They gave me a pain patch and muscle relaxer.  On the way home, Kimmy stopped at Walgreens and picked up my prescription.  We had prayed it wouldn’t be busy and there were only 2 cars and one was just leaving when we pulled up.  Melissa called and was going to  take a screen protector for my new watch to my house.  We told her we were close by and we would come there and pick it up.  That was good timing.  God was working everything out for us the whole night.  

We came back to my house, and Kimmy put the screen protector on, picked up some things (table cloth on the coffee table Rehvyn used to play with his cars on) and other things.  She made a coffee for the trip home, then left.  I sure love and appreciate my family.  All of the girls and Jared kept checking on me in the ER.  I sent messages to Bill to keep him updated.  

He called while I was in there to let me know he was done at the funeral home and was heading home.   The girls and Kenzie called or sent texts to check on me to see how I was doing.  I have such a wonderful and amazing family.  Thanking God that I am so blessed.