Hello People. Today for fun, we just about suceeded in cutting off the end of my thumb so this is difficult. BTW, in case any of you were considering trying it, it wasn't that much fun afterall...I don't really recommend it. I thought I should give ya'll an update on Grandma . Her kidneys are failing her. They are functioning on at 30%. I went to the dr with her the other day, he ordered a blood test, urine test and ultrasound on the kidney to see if he can figure out what is going on with them. He suspects that it's just old age, but then he says that she isn't really old enough to expect this kind of situation. Anyway. She really isn't doing well. each day she is in a panic about something that didn't happen that she is sure did. Her feet and lower legs were VERY swollen when she was here Thurs for dinner. She had to wear her slipon slippers, but even they didn't fit-her heels were sticking out the end about 1". She had grocery sacks on ove...
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Cool, Clear Water [echo] Water! We've spent the last couple of evenings in the basement (blub) vacuuming up water and moving furniture and getting (drip) the carpet out (North end of the house, both front and back). The soaker hoses (splash) that run in the flowers in both the back and front were inadvertantly left on and we had a major flood downstairs. Thanks Chad for spending (slop) some of your 24th of July vacation to help out. Hope the (blub) BBQ we had was worth it. Of course, it didn't (drip) turn out all bad. I quite enjoyed the moment yer mom put her arms around (splash) me and said thanks for not yelling at her. :-)
Well, I made it to 5 months!! Here I am showing off my 5-month poochy belly. The picture with the back pack on depicts what I look like every night from 6pm to 8am since It contains my TPN (my IV feeding) so I haul it around with me.... it's a pain when you have to go to the bathroom 3-4 times a night and haul it with!!! I was thinking about how hard this whole pregnancy thing has been, but then I got to thinking about all of the blessing that I've had along with it. It would have been HORRIBLE if we would have been pregnant while we lived in Nevada-- first of all, we didn't have any health insurance : { secondly, we would have had to travel to Utah for our health care through a huge gorge and considering I'm at the hospital here almost 5 days out of every week that would have been aweful. Third, I am very lucky that I have such a good support system: Steve is the most perfect husband in the world and is SO supportive and wonderful; it was nice that mom ...
Jackson Hole Trip Left for Jackson on Thurs AM. Guy & Ann rode with us in our Prius as it gets good mileage without feeling like riding in a tin can. Our condo was just down the street from the place we all stayed a few years back in Teton Village . Thursday night we went to Bubba's BBQ for dinner and just walked around the Teton Village area. Friday we got up and went to Jenny Lake and took a short hike. That ended when we went back to Bubba's for lunch (see my comments on yer mom's post for that story). We went on a white water/dinner trip in the afternoon evening where we did the same stretch of river we did with you kids, but stopped on the bank for a steak BBQ (see my comments on yer mom's post for that story). On Saturday we got up and hiked up Cascade Canyon , between the peaks of the Tetons, on the most beautiful hike I've ever been on. . We ran into a moose while up there. That night we went to the Bar J Wrangler's dinner show . (see story below...
WERE BACK! yesirrree, we are home. we had a great time. Kim had to bite his tongue on many agitating moments in an effort not eat Anne in some of her exasparating moments (like, last night at 10 pm when she wanted to drive into Jackson 40 min round trip so she could buy laundry soap Or like when she caused a panic at the BarJ Wranglers dinner show because she lost her purse, which was actually back at the condo!) I know we have our quirks too, that they also must have been trying them....but we had fun. It is a tradition that I would like to keep alive going somewhere once a year with my siblings/spouses. I would rather do it with my children, but we can't afford to pay everyones way on those kind of adventures, and until our kids are out of school/and the dating scene, it doesn't seem like it would work. Hopefully it will be before we're too old to do fun stuff with em.... One good thing/bad thing. It is really the same thing. My new bridge that had to be RE-done abo...
I unexpectedly spent tonight in the Riverwoods Urgent Care facility for an hour and a bit. I got a pretty good cut above my eye. Cambrie and Steve already got to see the cut a little bit over the webcam as they were helping me decide if it was worth getting stiched or not. The webcam probably didn't give the most vivid picture of it. I'll post pictures later when Cherie emails them to me. To make a long story short, of course, the seriousness of these cuts have to be measured by the number of stitches. They told me that it was a pretty good cut (which I knew from first hand experience) and that if I hadn't come in, it would have turned into a really bad ugly scar. He said it will still turn into a pretty good scar, but not as much. The cut was about an inch long. They put four stitches inside of the cut to keep it all together in there and 17 stitches on the outside, for a grand total of 21 stitches. If it were blackjack, I would have won. I'll tell all about what h...