An end of the year update....2017

We had our christmas, it was nice, the grandkids all enjoyed their gifts. One got a gun, one wanted a monitor holder for 3 monitors, and the other wanted a ukulele. Our Dirty Santa had not dirty gifts this year, all were good ones, and we had a great time stealing others gifts. We had decided with all that we had been doing, with dinners and whatever, that we would do something simple, so we had ham and cheese sliders, chip and dip and of course Mac and Cheese, homemade, because we can't have a get together without the kids ordering that. The one who got the gun came by and had grandpa put him up a target to try it out, since he lives in town, had to come out to the country. The other two, one spent 3 hrs putting the monitor holder together, and the other one held her ukulele and grinned from ear to ear. I hear she has been practicing every day and is learning. Now for us, the old couple in this story. We have been needing new floors in the kitchen and hallway for several years. Before Thanksgiving he ripped out the old floors, down to the subfloor, and started laying plywood and cement board getting ready to lay down tile. He and older grandson have most of the tile down in the kitchen, and it is going to look nice and clean when it is finished. The old floor was at least 23 years old and was really showing it's age. Me, I've been having what I thought was a pinched nerve in my back for about 8 months, and it just kept getting worse. I was sent to a back surgeon on Dec 19th, and it turns out that it wasn't my back after all, it was my left hip. I have had an artificial hip for 4 years, and a part of it had rotated, no one has a clue how it happened. They called in a specialist, and he said it was dangerous to walk on it, without support, and a wheelchair was even better. He scheduled my surgery for Jan 2nd...there is where things started going wrong. Between Dec 19th and Jan 2nd, there are not a lot of days to get the things done they wanted done. I needed to see a dentist, and there is the 2nd mistake that I made. I figured one of these chain ones would be able to get me in faster, so I made an appointment for Thursday the 21st. Just say that I won't ever go back there, and the name of it starts with a mon and the end of it is ark. No that isn't how it is spelled, but you get my drift. The dentist wanted a bribe to fill out the paperwork, I needed over $1800 in work by her estimation before she will fill out the papers. I didn't agree, so she sabatoged my surgery. I was told it was cancelled by the nurse, so I called back and made sure, before I went to another doctor. I saw him on Wednesday, Dec 27th, he agreed with the first surgeon, they did my bloodwork, and as soon as it is cleared, I'll get a call to schedule my surgery. I doubt it will be as soon as the other one, but that is ok... Now here comes the Kicker, today my cell phone rang. It was the other surgeon's nurse, not the one who had been so snotty, his real nurse, saying he wanted to continue with the surgery. I told her too late, that I'd already seen the original surgeon, and he was doing the surgery. Hung up, phone rang again, it was the surgeon himself wanting to do the surgery, I told him what had happened with his nurse, turns out she was a sub, and didn't have authority to say what she said to me. I told him that I had already seen anothe doctor, and was no longer interested. I have a feeling whoever that nurse is, isn't happy. I'd like to have been a fly on the wall. Anyway this is the end of the year update. I'll post developments as they happen, along the way. Happy 2018 to everyone, sure hope it is an improvement over 2017.

Christmas Day 2017

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS, though I know that your real birthday is probably sometime in September, this is the day chosen to celebrate your perfect birth. Christmas here is a bit sad for us this year, even though we know that he is with you, we miss David a lot. Sometimes when the phone rings, my first thought is that's David and when our dinner time rolls around, we'll miss him more, because he always enjoyed getting together and having a meal. And when time for our Dirty Santa gift sharing, he was always funny. I know there are a lot of other families missing a member this year, in fact, many that I know personally. To all those families that are 'celebrating' this first, our prayers are with you. Merry Christmas.