Tuesday, Dec 17th, 2019…… Weather is turning colder! It was
31º when I took Rylee out at 8:00am for our walk! I fixed scrambled eggs for
breakfast and we hung around the house most of the day. I did go grocery
shopping again. I had to go get Kirk a gift card at Walmart so I picked up a
few things. More fresh veggies and some lemon juice. They had slippers that I
liked so I got those for Lydia because she has been wearing hers out. Still no
resolution for the scooter order. The ortho physician’s office says they never
received anything from the pharmacy, so they asked for their number to get this
resolved. Kirk came by today and worked on weed control. I let butthead out for
a bit then brought her in while he sprayed. He also weed whacked around the
shop so I don’t have to worry about that til spring. I gave him his Christmas card and gift card
since he will be out of town next week. Even though we had no rain, it was
cloudy and overcast with temps in the low 40s.
It was an
ok day for Lydia. She still is having a lot of pain in her foot but being off
it for the past few days has helped a lot. Tomorrow we go to her Nephrologist
scheduled appointment. It’s literally just down the street from the senior
center so if she feels good enough to go to bingo beforehand, we can just go
from there. We’ll see. Tonight’s dinner was fish sandwiches and after that we
caught up on some of our taped shows.
Wednesday, Dec 18th, 2019…… We both slept well last night. Lydia does tend to wake
up a few times because she has been sitting in her chair off her foot for the biggest
part of the day. She only takes the prescribed drugs either early on before bed
or in the middle of the night when she feels pain in the foot. They help her go
back to sleep and in the morning, she was resting comfortably (aka snoring
loudly!). I was up and going before the sun rose. I was showered and dressed
and I had Rylee walked and fed before 7:15am. We have lots of rain forecast for
the latter part of the week. But it was for the most part, dry today - until
the evening. Lydia spent most of the day resting and taking phone calls from
friends. She said she was doing ok and was wanting to go to bingo so we headed
out about 12:30pm and got set up in the room. I brought her over an extra chair
and used a stadium cushion we keep in the car to help support her foot. We played
the entire time and she said she was fine. We had to take off right after though
to make it to her doctor’s appointment. This was actually the first time I have
ever met Dr. Leonard. I think it will be my last! I liked her and all but I
think I was a little overbearing and overwhelmed her with concern about how
long each evaluation has taken in the progress to get a diagnosis on her foot.
Dr. Leonard is a kidney specialist and cannot speculate about what is going on
in there, although I did get her to say she does not think its neuropathy because
it’s only in one foot. She is certainly a talented lady and very concerned about
her patients. She and Lydia communicate well and she certainly does not need me
to get in the way with my badgering questions.
Once we
got out of there, we detoured by KFC to pick up dinner. While I was waiting for
my order, the Lebanon police came in, answering a complaint call from one of
the store managers. It seems that a transient family in an old beat up rv was
parked just outside their lot and as the manager drove in to work, he caught a
whiff of something terrible smelling, and saw the guy dumping his raw sewage
from his tank right on the ground! We
didn’t stay to see what happened but they had everyone out of the rv for
questioning. I’m guessing they will be, at a minimum, cited for pollution, with
a hefty fine and with a notice to appear. (Note - they were not in the space
the next morning so I expect they hightailed it out of the area!)
After
dinner, we settled in to watch Survivor and The Masked Singer. Turns out I had
Wayne Brady but I thought he was The Rottweiler. The other two were folks I
didn’t know so, we were 0 for the final three. This year, out of 16, we only
got 6 right. We watched part of the
Survivor Reunion Show but quit and called it a night because it was getting late.
Thursday, Dec 19th, 2019…… Rains have come. There are
several large storms coming in over the next several days. There are flood
warnings posted for the Portland area. Our forecast calls for lighter rains
down here. But even though the weather wasn’t cooperating, I still had some errands
I wanted to run today. Lydia was doing well and after I made us bacon and eggs
for breakfast, and cleaned the kitchen, I took off. I went in to Corvallis to
Bed Bath and Beyond to pick up a cutting board she wanted for the rv. Then I
made the circle back via Albany where I stopped in at the jewelry dept. at Fred
Meyer to check on a watch I had in for a new watchband (still in work). Then I
went by Petco to pick up some treats and toys for Rylee and Quincy for
Christmas. After that, I headed over to Costco and got some supplements and
more Tylenol. Last stop was back in Lebanon
where I went in to Walgreens for another prescription pickup. When I got home
and unloaded everything, Lydia said she wanted to go to Safeway for some light
shopping before her haircut appointment. We got her a scooter and made it
through the store quickly and got everything on her list and then headed over
to my sister’s (who lives just a minute or so from the store) so Lydia could
see her ‘Charlie Brown’ Christmas tree all lit up. We visited a few minutes
then took off to Rumors where Lydia met up with Teri, who cut her hair. We were
the last call for today so she went ahead and cut mine too (which doesn’t take
too long!). It was only around 3:30pm
when we left there but even though it was still early, we remembered that I hadn’t
gotten anything out for dinner for tonight so we stopped at Jack in the Box and
got burgers to bring home. We watched the rest of the Survivor Reunion show from
last night and the finale of the The Great Food Truck Race. Then I moved off to
my room to work on the blog and then watch my programs until bedtime.
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