Monday's Mayhem

Well I only got about four hours sleep last night, not nearly enough and I have been tired all day. This morning after eating breakfast and reading the paper, I cleaned up the bathroom where Kathleen had gotten sick. Then I gathered up the towels and washed them.

Kathleen took a shower and afterwards I gathered up the rugs in the bathroom and the clothes that she had been wearing when she got sick and washed them as well. By this time the mail came so I opened it up and most of it was junk, so I recycled it.

After gathering up the garbage for around the house and taking it outside, I then took the can up front for pick up tomorrow. When I came back into the house the towels were dry, so I folded them and put them away.

By this time it was time to take Kathleen to the doctors. He asked how soon she wanted to take care of the stones and Kathleen said as soon as possible, so he asked how about tomorrow. That sounded good to us so we made arrangements to do it tomorrow early afternoon.

We will need to leave here about 100 or so because she needs to be there two hours before the procedure. We were there about an hour and when we finished we went to Walgreen's to pick up her prescription from last night and also some other things that she could only find at Walgreen's.

After finishing there, about another hour later, we finally were on our way to Winco to pick up some groceries that we were out of. We did not have our list, so I was going mostly off memory, I checked the list when we got home and did not do too badly.

After the groceries were put away, I cooked myself a Boca burger for a late lunch, it was almost 1630, and put it on some multi-grain bread heels that I had put a couple onion slices, a sliced up mushroom a couple dill pickle slices and a slice of cheese. This has become one of my staples, nest to salads, it is quick and tastes good.

Kathleen fixed some snapper for dinner, she had the white rice that she fixed the other night and I had the "Mexican" rice from last week with mine. It was very tasty and not too many bones.

Well, I am very tired and that is all I can think about writing tonight, so good night for now!

Sucha Sunday

Well yesterday was Father's Day and started out like must Sunday's should. After church and Sunday School, we went home and I tried calling my "little" bro, as it was his 54th birthday, boy is he getting old! Anyway I tried the two phone numbers that I had for them and one went right to a voice mail box and the other just kept ringing and ringing, so after letting it ring for over a minute, I just hung up.

I thought that I might try later, but I never got a chance to try. Kathleen chopped up some onion and mixed it with the "Mexican" rice and her salmon from last night and then heated it up. I added a little sour cream to it and it really was good.

Then I finished reading the paper and also collected, washed, dried, folded and put away the first load of laundry. John called about 1650 and said that we were to meet them at "Sweet Tomatoes" about 1730 for dinner with him, Andrea, Brandon and John's parents.

We arrived just before 1730 and John's parents arrived about ten minutes later, John, Andrea and Brandon were the last to arrive and when they did we all went inside and went through the line to gather our salads.

Kathleen started not feeling well and so we left as soon afterwards as we could. She had driven there and wanted me to drive home. Kathleen's pain was getting worse as we headed north so as we reached the exit that would take us close to our doctor's office, I asked her if she wanted me to get off and see if the office was still open. She said yes, so I did, I knew that the office hours were really short on Sunday, but I thought that I would give it a try.

The office had closed at 1500, so we were just a little late to see anyone. So then we called the office to get the on-call doctor. Kathleen told him her problem and he said that she could either go home and try to tough it out until morning or go to the emergency room.

Since the hospital emergency room was about a half mile away we thought that it would be better to stop there and have her checked out. We got to the hospital about 1900 and she finally got someone to take her into triage, and then to a room where they finished admitting her.

While in the room they gave her an IV with some pain killer and then just before we left they gave her some pain pills to take and a prescription for more, but we were too tired to drive out to Gresham, the closest 24 hour pharmacy.

About 2130 they sent her out for s CT scan and discovered kidney stones, the largest about 6mm and several others behind it. Long story short, we finally left about 2300 and I was really tired...hence no blog last night.

This morning we will have to go to see Doctor Winchester, the same doctor who did my surgery last June and whom she say many years ago for some other kidney stones.

This is not exactly how I had envisioned my Father's Day to turn out, but not totally unexpected either. Well, I am still tired as I did not get to bed until 0100 this morning as I had to take the second load of laundry out of the dryer and fold and put it away, and I was also too wound up to go to sleep before that.

When Kathleen gets up we will be getting an appointment to see the doctor this morning and will go from there.
I am sure that are not done with this episode yet so we will write more when we find out more. Hope to talk to you tonight.