March 8, 2015 Lorraine’s report
Hello and thanks for stopping by. So our days just seems to be flying so quickly here. It will be strange to have Susy getting all better, and hopefully before you know it, she will be all healed. It has been fun, taking care of her like when she was little.
Not much happening here. It’s been getting up, going over to Susy’s, and help her getting cleaned up, and getting her ready for the day. You throw in Kaitlyn, and at times others, and you can guess it has been busy for me. But anything done in love will help make the time and effort go swiftly. That has been what I have been doing. Susy and Rich, my son, have always been my priority for many years now. Don’t know when that will ever end, but I enjoy it for now.
So Chuck asked me to think of what I wanted to do or go when we are finished here with Susy. We need to be back in this area to be here for Kaitlyn’s 10th birthday party on April 15, which is her birthday, for her big day. This year our son is turning 50, Susy turned 40 a week ago and Kaitlyn is turning 10 in April. All big events for them. How did this happen?! Any how, not sure where we will go or for how long. As I always said, we live our lives like we are in jello, nothing is set up, it kind of just happens.
Have a great week everyone.
Hugs to all,
Lorraine
3/8/15 Chuck’s report
Not much to report on this week so this should be a very short one.
Susy had her surgery a week ago on Friday and seems to be healing just fine, she is only taking aspirin for the pain during the day. She has to keep her arm in a sling and hasn’t been released to drive a car yet and we don’t know when that will happen. She does see the surgeon tomorrow so they will let her know when/if she will need physical therapy and such.
Lorraine has been helping Susy and Katie as much as she can, we go over to their house every morning and she helps Susy get ready for the day. We have been getting her out of the house for the last couple of days, going to the mall and such. I’ve mostly tried to be around in case they needed any help and of course drive when needed. We have picked Katie up from school most days then return back to Susy’s for the afternoon/evening.
Lorraine saw her doctor this week, mostly just to fill her prescriptions but he did want her to get a blood test, of course that meant fasting so she couldn’t do it that day. Next morning we drove to one of the labs and she finally got to see the nurse after about a 45 minute wait then she was in there for over 30 minutes. When she came out she said they had a hard time getting the needle in, took 4 tries. She has lots of bruising on her arm from that and she should be hearing from her doctor this week with the results.
I also had a couple doctor visits at the VA, the one on Friday I was out for about 7 hours from the time I left until I got back, some of that was due to the traffic of course but non-the-less, a long day. My blood test results didn’t show any problems so no bad news and I got a new set of glasses ordered.
Yesterday we helped Susy’s friend’s father celebrate his 60th birthday, good times and dinner at their house with their family and friends. Only problem was we let the time get away and stayed later than expected but we did have a good time.
Today is the start of daylight savings time, sure wish we would just stay on it instead of going back in the fall. Of course we see lots of time changes as we head across the country but those make better sense as we need to adjust our day to the area we are in. This daylight savings stuff is just an added, unnecessary change in my opinion. If I really wanted to “save” an hour, I could just get up earlier, ha.
The weather has been getting better this week, into the mid 70s for the high and only dropping to the high 50s at night, not quite shorts and tee shirts yet but getting closer. The forecast is for possible light rain over the next couple of days, we’ll deal with that if it happens.
Our travel plans are still on hold, we are waiting to see what the surgeon has in store for Susy’s recovery. We can only stay at this Elks Lodge for two weeks and that will be up on Thursday. We have to leave for at least 3 days before we could return for another two weeks so we’ve been looking at a couple possible places to spend those days. Lorraine has been trying to come up with a travel plan if we don’t need to stay around but nothing definite on that front yet.
I don’t think the camera has been used this week so no pictures to add. Like I said, a short one this week.
Thanks Chuck
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