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| Jack and Evan...they tracked me down today!!! |
Made it until 3:30 before I came out to my recliner. Yay! Slept pretty good after that. I got up at 8 and had cereal and coffee. I got ready so I would be done before the guy came to measure our fireplace opening, I was ready and almost going to lave for my doctor appt. when the guy pulled in and parked behind me. Bill asked him to move so I could get out and I grabbed my coat and went outside. The guy came in and checked out the crawl space and how much length they would need to run the pipes for the gasoline. He seemed to think it would be real easy. We were glad to hear that. He will be here next Tuesday to do it. Hopefully the fireplace insert we ordered comes in by then and he can install that too. We are happy they want to do it before February.
I drove to my doctor appt. They took three X-rays and then I went back into the room I was in. It was huge with a big bed in it. It was so clean and nice. My appt. was at 11:30 and it was 11:31 and all this was done already. I waited about 15 minutes and Dr. Bindon came in. He was cheerful and asked me how I was doing and how my Christmas was. He showed me my X-ray and said there was no change from the last time. Everything was very secure and holding. He had me walk for him and thought I did great. He checked my incision and thought it looked great. He also asked me questions about other things I can do now and was happy I could do them well. I asked him when I could sleep in bed without couch pillows between my knees. He told me I could now and took all restrictions away. Yay! I will sleep so much better tonight. I was his last patient, so he took time and just sat and talked to me for a while. I gave him the cookies and he was very happy. He told me he loves to cook and bake and does most of the cooking. His wife has a few dishes she likes to make, but doesn’t really love coking. I told him about my wonderful son in laws who all cook and do a great job at it. I told him Bill is of the generation that doesn’t really like cooking. He did boil eggs last night all on his own though. They turned out really good. He talked about when he was in fellowship after his med school. He didn’t have much time than to eat at home. I asked if there was somewhere I could give him and excellent rating because he did such an amazing job and he didn’t know of any place either. He asked me about a survey, but I got a survey for everything but him. I told him I was spreading the word about what a good surgeon he was though. He thanked me. I told him I would try to leave a comment at least. I did that when I got home, then I noticed on Vikki’s post the day of my surgery, Kenzie’s Grandma Joan asked me my surgeon’s name because she has to have her hip taken care of. I commented on that too and told her about the great job my doctor did and my quick recovery.
I decided to call Melissa and stop over at her house since I will be going out of town Wednesday. She gave me a piece of cake they got for Peggy’s birthday. It was so good. Then I told her I should show her how to use her new shampooer to clean up a coffee spill on her carpet that just happened. We sat the water dispenser down on the cupboard to fill it and as I put water in it, it started leaking all over. Good thing we had absorbent green rags to soak it up. We put the water dispenser in the shampooer and the shampooer wouldn’t spray water. Melissa got the book out and I got a couple you tube videos up. Some were crazy how they took so many pieces of the shampooer apart. We finally found one that was good, but super funny. We laughed til we cried watching it. He went through a lot of extra stuff too, but in the end said you only need a knife, a beer opener, an a pin. Then he added you need a small attachment with a narrow opening for the vacuum to vacuum the the row of nipples he called it. He didn’t have the part, so he put two pieces of tape across the opening and left the center slit open. He was a hoot! In the end he showed us how to prime it by sticking a pen in the opening where you connect the hose until it bubbles. Well this was the only thing we ended up doing. A little water came out, but Melissa said it wasn’t bubbling, then she laughed and said it was really bubbling. She forgot to close the cover to where the hose connects, so the shampooer still didn’t spray water. I told her to shut it and it worked perfect after that. We decided we needed each other of this job. I sure was funny. We had 15 minutes to shampoo where she wanted. She did it and it took the spot right out. Her timer went off to pick the kids up from school. It was Bruce’s first day at his new job in Montrose. I left to go to Lisa’s to exchange Christmas gifts, and Melissa went to get the boys. She couldn’t find her phone and knew it had gone off so was there. She ended up just taking Evan’s phone with her. She picked up the boys.
I had a nice visit with Lisa and her mom. Lisa has been sick for quite a while with kidney stones and 2 surgeries and seizures. Her mom is 83 and hadn’t been able to drive. because she was told she was legally blind from macular degeneration. Well her mom showed me her new glasses she got in Midland at a special place that treats this. She can see out of her right eye except periffialy but she has almost 20/20 vision in her left eye now. She can drive again and just in time to be able to take Lisa to all her appointments and her hospital visits. God is awesome. Her mom was just so nice to talk to. I see where Lisa gets her sweetness. Lisa and I open our gifts and had a nice visit. My phone buzzed in my pocket so I answered. It was Jack and he said he tracked me down. Melissa used his phone finder to find her phone and it led them to Lisa’s house. I thought I was talking on my phone, but he told me it was his mom’s phone. I said I would drop it off and he told me he was in Lisa’s driveway and Evan would come to the door for it. My phone was on the table. I took Melissa phone and gave it to Evan. We all had a really good laugh and I waved to Melissa and Jack out in the driveway. Lisa and I had a good laugh about it too. I left after that and came home. I had been gone since 11. Bill had been to his 2 pm VA appt and was home already.
We both had his free pizza he got last night. I just added cheese to mine. It was really good. I got on Covenant’s MD page and gave my doctor a good comment there too. Then I put my new appt. he made me for April on the calendar. He told me if everything was going fine, I could just cancel it.
I got my list for our trip out and wrote down extra things I need. We will be packing tomorrow. I worked on my blog. and I had banana splits. Yum! He deserved a big banana split. I got home today and he had emptied the dishwasher and took the clothes out of the dryer and folded them. Since taking care of me after my surgery, he just does those sweet things now. I sure appreciate it.
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