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We will have home visits from an occupational therapist as well as a physical therapist, at least for a couple of weeks. They will start tomorrow. We made it through the first night fairly well. For the time being, he is more comfortable sleeping in his recliner than the bed. He does need a little help in the bathroom, so…

We came home mid afternoon. For a while it looked like inpatient rehab was going to be recommended because when the OT person worked with him this morning it didn’t go very well. He had great difficulty getting off the bed and walking to the toilet and around his room. I think it was largely due to the pain meds and muscle…

DH’s surgery went well. He has a nerve block that is keeping him pain free for up to 48 hours, by which time he will be at home. He is spending tonight in the hospital but should be discharged tomorrow. I came home an hour ago and will go back early in the morning so I can be there when the OT and PT departments come by.…

The regulations have changed for medications, so it’s not a Medicare policy. It’s a combo of state and federal regulations that require the doctor or PA to actually see the patient before ordering refills and they can only prescribe a 7 day supply at a time. The PA agreed it’s ridiculous, but she said all it would be is…

We had about 3 inches a week ago, but the last cold front only brought us very cold temps. Today it is warming into the 50’s so we are getting back to more normal temps for our area. DH had his pre-op visit yesterday and is scheduled for his shoulder replacement surgery next Wednesday morning. While we are both dreading…

I did get my Dickens Villages put away this week. It was a lot of work but I was really happy to get it done. They had been up for more than 2 months, so it was time for them to hibernate again until next Christmas. At this point I think we are not going to have SIL come down. She gets on both our nerves so much that we’d…

Our snow is melting and will probably all be gone by tonight. We may get more by the end of the week. I need to put away my Dickens Village displays, but it’s a lot of work and I keep putting it off. DH likes them and thinks I should leave them up awhile longer, but I’m kind of tired or them since they’ve been up for more…

We are getting snow today. The projection is that it will continue to snow off and on all day and end by noon tomorrow. The forecast is for 2-4 inches, but if it continues like it is right now it will likely be more. Pretty much everything has come to a halt around here - schools and business closed, nobody out driving…

My goodness, Helene! I’m so sorry you fell, but relieved you didn’t seriously damage yourself! I hope your chiropractor is able to get you back to feeling good again. As for the tooth and future implant, I have 2 implants and was very happy with the outcome on them. I had a great endodontist who did my implants, and my…

I’m tired today and planning to take it easy and rest. Yesterday I cooked 2 big soup pots full of shrimp and corn chowder and 3 loaves of beer bread, which I then delivered to my friend who lost her mother this week. They had a lot of family who had flown in staying at their house. Another friend made salads and pies for…

Happy New Year! I’m not making resolutions but I have hopes that this year I will be able to improve my stamina by getting more active and spending less time in a chair. I need to do this because as DH becomes less able physically I need to be able to do more. I am saddened this morning to learn that one of my dear friends…

Helene, I’m so glad the news was good and you are on your way to a warmer climate. Thanks for the compliments on the cake. I made a miniature version for us, and it was pretty tasty! I am just enjoying the holiday foods for now, but will need to get back on the diet track once they are gone. My weight is slowly creeping up…

Happy Holidays to you all! It’s a cloudy, cool day here, but I have nowhere I need to go so I don’t mind. Here’s a pic of the cake I made for my friend. It was 2 layers of sour cream vanilla cake and 1 layer of chocolate, with chocolate mousse filling and vanilla buttercream icing. It was a lot of work, but my friend was…

This year hasn’t been too bad for me, for a change. The adults in the family agreed to stop exchanging gifts, so I only had to do gifts for 3 kiddos and they were pretty easy. We are staying home, so I’ll plan to cook a nice dinner and that will be our Christmas celebration. I am doing some baking for some of my friends,…

We got home about 5 PM today. We were rebooked once by United on a flight leaving Dulles at 8:30 this morning, but due to getting to our unimpressive hotel so late last night, I called and politely requested to be rebooked to a later flight. My initial request was denied, at which time I became a bit more forceful in my…

Maryanne, I thought about you last night because due to many issues we ended up missing our connecting flight from Munich back to Dallas. United sent us to a crummy Best a western hotel on Princess Garden Parkway, in Lanham, MD. I think that’s somewhere close to Baltimore? Now I’m sitting in the Dulles airport waiting for…

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! Our dinner with our neighbors was very nice. They are a lovely family and have always made us feel very welcome. Today we are getting ready for our bus tour of Christmas markets in Europe. We leave tomorrow for 10 days of travel. DH’s sister will be joining us on this trip, though…

Happy Thanksgiving to you two, as well! I have it really easy this year. We are going to our neighbors’ home for dinner. I’ll be making a butter pecan bread pudding with a bourbon pecan caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream, just in case we don’t eat enough calories with the meal, lol! Maryanne, thank you for the Jacquie…

Maryanne, I agree with you. I think the buyer’s remorse will be huge (or should I say YUGE) once his policies are set into action. I’m hearing and reading a lot of analysis and there doesn’t seem to be any real consensus as to why certain voters voted the way they did. I have one friend in particular that acknowledges that…

I think I was told to ice for 20 minutes on and 20 off throughout the day of surgery to reduce swelling. I was prescribed an ointment to apply with a Q-tip to the incision for about a week. I don’t recall having any itching. I was given a weird pair of goggles that I was supposed to wear to sleep in for the first week. I…

That does sound like a strange appointment. What kind of doctor is he? Mine was a dermatologist/plastic surgeon who is widely known in this area as “the eyelid doctor”, lol. At least you were given approval and the surgery timeline will work for you.

Helene, how did you appointment go about your eyelids?

Saw this and it made me laugh!

Helene, I’m sorry for your loss. I hope it’s of some comfort to you that his last 2 years were peaceful and happy. I am also deeply saddened and concerned after the outcome of the election. I truly believed that Harris could win it and I am beyond angry at all of the people who believed all of the lies they were fed by his…

Helene, it was Maryanne who said a friend is considering moving out of the country if Harris doesn’t win. I wish I could, as well! I’m glad the info about the vision testing was helpful. It really confirmed for me what I already suspected.

Helene, if they do a test of your peripheral vision, it might be a better measure of how much the sagging eyelid(s) is/are impeding your vision. I found that I couldn’t see a lot of things up high without tilting my head up out of the eye that was operated on, compared to the other eye. The eyelid surgeon performed this…

Helene, it was by far the easiest surgery and recovery I’ve ever had. I only had 1 droopy eyelid. There was no pain at all and only a little discomfort from the bandaging on the first day and night. I was told to remove it after the first night and after that my only reminder of the surgery was the stitches that didn’t…

That’s great news, Helene! Sometimes we just have to be patient and remember that our older bones don’t heal as fast as younger ones. At least, that’s been true for me. Maryanne, I’m sorry your month has been so crazy busy and dealing with testing software on top of it! I always hated when management would decide to scrap…

Happy belated birthday to you Helene!

It finally got cool here, but the temps are going back up in a day or two. We will enjoy it while it lasts! Last night some of my friends and I enjoyed a wonderful evening to celebrate my birthday. We had appetizers first with wine, then enjoyed a delicious dinner of spaghetti, salad and bread. One of the ladies brought…