I was going to try to do my writing on the balcony, but its dark gray skies and very cool winds out there this morning, so instead while Tom catches some sleep on the couch, I figured the quietest thing that I could do would be to sit in here and try to come up with a meaningful entry.
Once again there are so many thoughts running through my head that rather than giving me something to write about; its distracting. Those sorts of thoughts of all the things that I want to do, need to do, long to do and have to do and it makes it hard for me to sit still.
We are breathing sighs of relief and giving our thanks to God that He has answered our prayers and Brad is doing well. They released him from the hospital on the 5th after several tests and procedures – they inserted a scope & dye up to his heart through his groin and was pleasantly surprised to find that his heart is extremely healthy & strong and that there was NO evidence of the heart attack that they had told him he had. The cardiac surgeon was surprised because he was prepared to find a bad artery and insert a stint and be done with it. The one thing that they did discover is a slow valve – not significantly slow, but noticeably so that it may have been causing the problem. They were going under the assumption that the illness he suffered for three days prior to the onslaught of chest pains is probably what caused the valve to malfunction. They are placing him on heart medication for a year (plavix I think they said), and he must return every 3 months for continued tests and what not to make sure that all is working like it should. So this is all good news.
Tom and I took our granddaughter Lexi to the doctor yesterday, both Mommy and Daddy had to work so we gladly took her. Its her ears again. Poor thing, she has had such a go with ear infections in her 3 years, and now the right ear drum is bulging and infected – this all so soon after the last issue with a ruptured ear drum – Mommy is taking her to her specialist today – they may need to do surgery and put tubes back in her ears again. The other ear was so filled with wax that they couldn’t see the ear drum – both Mommy and Daddy felt like they did something wrong and didn’t clean her ears well enough. I couldn’t stress enough how untrue that is – some people, some kids just have an excess of wax buildup and you can’t clean it out with a q-tip for goodness sake or you hurt the ear. Naturally they blame themselves – but being one of those people with excess wax, I know that no matter how much you clean your ears, unless that wax falls down, or you flush it, there’s nothing you can do about it. Flushing her little ears after her drum has been previously ruptured is not something a parent should do – that is up to her doctor.
My oldest daughter Melissa and other two adorable grand babies will be here for a long visit next month. I cannot wait to have them here. Melissa wants to place her oldest and Lexi in swimming lessons while she is here – I think that is a wonderful idea – get them while they are young. Then you don’t have to worry as much about them falling into a pool, river or lake and drowning.
I need to hit the job boards and get back to searching for work. Part of me, the mental part is ready to go back to work – its my body that betrays me and I worry about how well I will do and how long I will last out.
