Sunday, February 3rd., 2019…... SUPER BOWL SUNDAY! I am rooting for the Rams.
Not that I like the Rams (I’m a Broncos fan), but I don’t like New England and
they should lose to everybody! Also, Brandon Cooks, who plays for the Rams, is
an Oregon State graduate. My neighbor, Lou, knows him pretty well. I think NE
will dominate the game but I have a little hope. We’ll see…. They have a couple
of the bars and pizza parlors here in town having parties, and the Elks in
Sweet Home will do one too, but I always try to stay at home for the Super Bowl
so I can watch it without any interruptions. Lydia made steak sandwiches out of
the tri-tip so dinner was easy and good.
The game went about the way I
thought it would go, except that scoring was tough for both teams. The Rams
held tough for the first half but couldn’t score. You can’t keep the Patriots
at bay for an entire game. The trio of Brady, Gronkowski, and Edelman just were
too much for the Rams to defend. I guess they now all get to go to Disney
World!
Monday, February 4th., 2019…… We had a pretty good rain last night. And it
was cold. But it didn’t snow - at least not on us. There is a hill back of our
house, I’m guessing about a mile away that was covered with snow this morning
when I took Rylee out for our walk. We
are supposed to have a few days of colder weather. Cold for us, but not near as
bad as the Midwest, so I consider us lucky.
I spent
some time online this morning looking for towel bars for our master bath. We
have some we can buy from Home Depot but before we do that, we want to see what
else is out there. Lydia also found a wall
clock for the dining room at Fred Meyer that we can buy on Amazon for way
cheaper, so we looked at those while we were online.
Today was
Lydia’s consult. We liked Hanna, the physician’s assistant, who met with us and
she reviewed Lydia’s history and asked all the right questions. Then she explained
all of the possible scenarios for the future. After talking with her, the best plan
as it stands today is to go ahead and fill out the necessary forms for surgery
for the future. But they want to wait
until they can consult with their Samaritan kidney transplant team specialist
for advice on possible alternatives, one of which might be a temporary reduction
in dosage of the anti-rejection meds she has been taking for years. The gastro doctors
seem to think that those meds are blocking the effectiveness of the antibiotics
to treat the diverticulitis. If that is an option, it might avoid surgery. If
that is not advised, then it is likely that the surgery for a colon re-section
will take place. They said it would be probably in March sometime. Recovery is
6-8 weeks so, that means any travel plans we were contemplating can’t be made
until the recovery is complete. Lydia is good with either option – she wants
this to go away!
We got
back home and relaxed for a while, then heated up leftovers for dinner and then
watched our taped AGT until bedtime.
Tuesday, February 5th., 2019…... I got up around 3:30am to pee
and Rylee wanted out. Guess what? It was snowing! Baby’s first snow! Once I got back to bed, I wasn’t in any hurry
to get up. When we did, Rylee ventured out slowly at first, then decided it was
one big ice cube to lick! But thankfully
that stopped after a bit. It had dropped about one inch on the ground
overnight. Although it had stopped snowing (nothing in the forecast today) it
wasn’t going anywhere. So, I waited until around 11:30am to take pooper dog out
for her walk. We found out that Rylee is really NOT a white dog! Compared to
snow that is. You can actually see her in the snow.
After
about 12:30pm the sun peeked out through the clouds and it warmed up enough to
melt it slowly away. By 3:30pm it was gone! We saw on tv (on our Portland feed)
that they were having tons of trouble up there. They had way more snow and
colder temps than we did and they had black ice during rush hour. They just
kept getting more and more reports of accidents. You’d think folks up there
would have learned to drive in it by now! Back here at home, we had no place to
go so we just waited it out and watched tv and worked the jigsaw puzzle for a while.
Later, Lydia got a call from her dr.
They want her to do a new round of labs so she had to drive to the hospital to
do that. But she said the roads to and from were dried out and she had no
issues. I helped her with the defrosting of the pork chops (yeah, I know – big job!)
and when she got home, they were thawed. She did get a call from her
Nephrologist. Turns out she was the first call the surgeon’s office made on her
behalf. After conferring, the decision right now is to reduce the dosage on her
anti-rejection meds. Dr. Leonard agrees that it might be blocking the
antibiotics. She’s called in a prescription for the lessor medication. Lydia fixed the pork chops with mushroom gravy
and the rest of our smashed potatoes from the other night. After dinner Walgreens called and she went to the
drive-thru and picked it up. Once she got back, we relaxed, watched tv and then
called it a night.
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