Terry's Blog: Oregon Living 2017 – Blog #81 – Penny’s Minor Surgery and Moving Joe!

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017…... Today was another appointment for my sister. We took her to her Kaiser doctor’s facility in Salem to check in at 1:00pm. She got her port installed today. They call it minor outpatient surgery but they still used anesthesia so it took several hours total. Lydia stayed with her for some of the wait before they called her back for prep, then she came out and we went off to kill some of the time. We went to Mors, which is a furniture store up here (very similar to Living Spaces), to look at dining room tables. We found one we really liked but we have more comparable shopping still to do. We also went up to Keizer, a small community just north of Salem to look around. Joe and Maryanne told us they have a nice Elks lodge up there with an excellent campground. We were heading back down one of the main streets in town and we saw the lodge off on a side street. They were right – it is a really nice rv park. Looks like a regular campground with full hookups and room for 40+ rigs! We headed back and got back to the medical center and were walking in when Lydia got the call that Penny was just wheeled into recovery. We met with the aides, who went over the after-surgery instructions with us. They said she should not be home alone so we said she would be staying with us for the night. A few minutes later, we were heading out. She hadn’t been allowed food all day so we stopped at Applebee’s for dinner before stopping off at her place to pick up clothes for the night and next day plus Quincy and her doggie bed. Once home, we walked the dog and settled in to relax and all of us calling it night pretty early after the long day.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2017…... Penny said she slept ok last night. They have a catheter line up by her neck and the bandage bothers her when she moves her head so it was hard to find a comfortable position to sleep. She can remove the bandage tomorrow so that will help. I got up early and walked the dog and then showered and we took off to Sweet Home and had breakfast at Skyline. While we were there, Tim and Dana, our new contractors, came in for breakfast. They gave us an update - the plans are currently in work by an engineer. We will get a copy and then they will go get permits. Still on track for a December start date. After breakfast, we came back, got the dog, and took them back to their house. Skies are turning gray. Rain is coming again and is supposed to last several days. I did manage to get my tiki moved from laying out in front of the shop to standing up in my covered woodshed which is attached to the shop. It won’t go into its final position until we can get funds to get the backyard turned into a patio/gazebo/bbq/spa area. Might be a while so Tiki Joe got relocated! Lydia has been doing laundry and working on dusting and I spent some time in the shop digging out fall decorations so we kept busy today! She fixed pork chops and rice for dinner which were very tasty and after cleanup, we watched Survivor and part of the taped CMA awards before heading off to bed.

Here are a few pictures. We have a neighbor cat who likes to patrol our yard. He was outside this one morning and a deer happened by. They were as close as five feet from each other and neither seemed concerned!.....