Catching Up Again

Well, I thought that I would try and do my blog this morning rather than wait until I was too tired to think straight.

Yesterday morning I had an appointment with the Urologist who did my cancer surgery, I have been seeing him ever since my surgery every three months and so when I got there I had my blood drawn and left a sample in a cup then went back to the waiting room to wait to see the doctor.

While sitting there my arm did not feel quite right so I looked down and noticed that my shirt was turning red; I had a five inch long and two inch wide soaked area that was soaked and so I took my shirt off and Kathleen went to the receptionist window and told them about it.

After a while someone came out cleaned off my arm, which was also bloody and redressed the area where they had draw the blood earlier. This time she used a cloth tape, put it on tighter and told me to keep pressure on it, so I did.

Anyway, my PSA was about the same as it was three months ago, almost none existence, so I set up an appointment for three months from now and after that if the PSA stays down I should be able to have visits every six months.

That will be nice as I am having more doctor appointments for the arthritis than I had and it will be nice not to have to spend more time in a doctor's office than anywhere else.

After finishing up at the doctor's we stopped at the credit union so that I could deposit a refund check and take some money out and then we went next door to the AT&T store so that I could buy another one hundred dollars worth of minutes for my cell phone.

I still had time left from when I bought it two years ago, but I have to buy a hundred dollars worth every year to be able to roll over those minutes, so I have been trying to use my phone more and having Kathleen use it rather than hers so that I can work the minutes down.

Kathleen goes through hers in less than a year, so if she can use my phone once in a while especially if we are out together it will keep her minutes and use up mine.

After we finished there we went to the DMV as Kathleen needed to get a new handicapped parking permit and she wanted me to pick up an application so that I could get one as well.

I have been reluctant in getting one as I have not wanted to think of myself as handicapped, but my hip has been bothering me enough that I decided to go ahead and try to get one. I still would like to not have to use it unless I really need it, but if I need it it will be nice to have.

After that we went to Red Lobster for some lunch; Kathleen had two kind of shrimp, fried and scampy. I had some crab stuffed cod and we both had a bowl of clam chowder. It was late for the lunch crowd so service was quick and we did not feel like we had to rush to free up a table.

When we finished eating we went to the Troutdale Outlet Mall to pick up a couple items and then we went to Lowe's to pick up some items to finish off our downstairs bathroom.

I took my can inside and used it and my hip did not bother me nearly as much as it did last Saturday at Home Depot, so I may have to start using it more when I go out. We did not finish up at Lowe's until after 1900 and by the time we got home it was 1930.

We had the SUV just about full from all the shopping that we did and it took a while to unload it so when Kathleen asked what to do for dinner I suggested reheating the pasta that was left over from the night before.

After dinner and cleaning up I was too tired to think about blogging so I just sat around the kitchen table with Kathleen and we watched CSI and than I went to bed.