Thursday June 12 2008

They Don't Grow in Wyoming

Debbie went off early to get an x-ray and do errands. When she got back we packed up the majority of my "stuff" and loaded it into her car. I'll be at Beverly's for several days now, then Debbie will be driving back home with me. Deb and I went to the hospital about 10 a.m. to get Beverly checked out and drive her home. It was best to take her in the car, since their truck is very high and she would have had to strain to get in. We didn't have to wait too long before the nurse came and took out her IV, and took her down to the front door in a wheel chair.

It was a longer drive than I've been on via the belt loop 215 out to their house. That road is new within the last 5 years or less. It goes clear up on the west side of the valley now, so close to the mountains, that part of it winds through some of the hills and gets up kind of high. I saw where they are putting in another freeway going east and west close to where we were driving.

Well, Murphy's Law kicked in, and when we got to Bev's house, the door was locked and she didn't have any key - i.e. they have a key pad on the garage door which she used and then the back door was locked. She says they never lock that door. The hospital rule was that she didn't bring her purse and that's why she didn't have a key. She had to call Brent at work, who called his mom, who had a key, to come and let us in. We got her into bed and Debbie went back out to the store and got some lunch fixings. We hadn't had any breakfast yet, so it tasted pretty good.

Debbie had some chores at home and a meeting this evening to get ready for, so she left about 2 and we had a quiet afternoon. I slept in front of the TV for a couple of hours, but the phone kept ringing so I know Beverly didn't sleep much. Several friends have dropped by, and Beverly kept getting up too much I'm sure. Bev's also had more phone calls, when she should be trying to rest. We kept telling her to stay down.

Brent's mom had been here cleaning and the house and yard sure look nice, as usual. Friends and neighbors will be bringing meals for some days. I'm sure there will be more than we can eat, and that I won't have to cook much. Brent's mom brought a meal for tomorrow I think. Tonight a friend from church brought a penne pasta similar to lasagna with sausage, fresh bread, and a delicious salad and brownies for tonight's dinner. A friend of Brent's has been giving him buckets of apricots, so this afternoon I made an apricot cobbler with the ripest ones to have with ice cream. The desert apricots are the best. Another lady brought fresh cookies.

Tonight Beverly is having some pain, and wondering if she overdid, so now she is down with a heating pad and I rubbed some liniment on her shoulder. She says they put some gas in to do the surgery and she's had that before with her C sections, and it feels the same. Pretty painful. She probably should have had a softer diet today too, so tomorrow we're going to be more careful. She's supposed to go back to see the dr. for a checkup in a week.

I'm staying in Clay's room and feel bad about taking his space. But they won't hear it any other way. He is going to scout camp on Monday so lucky it's only putting him out for a few days. He's been at a cousins overnight and they went to the movies today.

An interesting thing which I haven't experienced before - at Debbie's they had wireless and I was hooked to the Internet up as soon as I turned on the computer there. But here they don't have that. However ...... I'm getting a wireless signal from somewhere outside and am able to be on the Internet. It's working fine, although it says the signal is very low. I'll try to post this now and see how it works, and then try to get my email. All this technology is amazing.

I miss having the dogs around. They lost their dogs here. You might remember that their two miniature dachshunds got old, so no pets here at the moment.