Friday January 2 2009

This is the PICC line. Some people answered

yes, they wanted to see it. If you dont, just

scroll past it quickly. The fluids go into the blue

thingy on the bottom left, which is a connection

for the syringes. The purple line goes

into my arm at the bottom of the white pad,

The white adhesive pad holds it in place

with "wings"that clamp it there. It's covered

with a clear adhesive square. Over it all I

wear a soft knit elastic "sleeve" which keeps

it all in place. It's not uncomfortable.

Melita made me this hat for a gift. And I

just love it, especially the tweedy color.

It has a spiral twisted design. Hank made

the pom pom!

Two blooms on the Amaryllis now.

Morning coffee - Nanny says it is a woman
Artfully dressed in a One Shoulder Gown
and hat over her forehead.
YESSSS!! I do see her.

But she's gone now -

I drank the whole thing.

Joe went to his coffee klatch this morning. I've been down to the clinic this morning to learn how to give myself the Lovenox shots, and figure I can do it. Everyone that I talked to who knew or had done it themselves said the needle was very little, but it was bigger than I imagined. Wish I didn't have to do it. It didn't really hurt though, so if I have the nerve to stick it all the way in to my stomach fat, I'll do fine. It's one of those "just do it" things. My cost of the Lovenox was $250. I'm not quite sure whether medicare and insurance paid part of it or not.

After going to the clinic I drove over to Melita's to visit her and her family was still there. Leslie's family and Karen's son were going to White Pine skiing. So Karen, Melita and I had a cup of tea. Leslie's little girl is 3 but sure seems older than her age. Dillon is 14 now and getting really tall, a nice boy. It was fun to see Karen again, and Melita too. She knitted me a wool hat, and I was short on warm hats. My head gets cold with the thin hair now. Thank you very much Dear Melita.

I went to the P.O. and then checked out the new Obo's meat market - bought some sausage and hamburger which I don't have in the freezer. It looks like a very nice selection of meat and the other things they have - cheeses, lunch meats, seasonings, a little dairy selection and some produce. And then to Ridley's for groceries. It was warming up so much that the streets are thawing. I had 35 degrees on my car thermometer.

This afternoon I took a little nap then went back to get the picc line flushed. That went quickly. Barb took the photo for me. I wanted to take boxes to recycling but it was closed. Then took a loop down Lake Road to see if there was wildlife and I bet I saw a hundred deer in there. Took a few pictures of quite a herd going down one of the streets and eating the landscaping in some of the yards. I'll put those on tomorrow.

It was sunny when I laid down for the nap, but within an hour it had clouded up and was lightly snowing. The temperature on the car thermometer was 35, and clearing snow off some of the roads into puddles, a real January thaw. When I got back home I shoveled the four inches of new snow off the back deck. As soon as I got back in the house it started to snow harder, then for a while it was so thick you could hardly see across the street ..... and windier. Not sure what tonight will bring since we're under the winter storm watch. It's supposed to get quite a bit colder by morning.

Here is a link showing where an avalanche came down on Teton Pass and the WYDOT is clearing it away today. It says it was 50 feet deep on the road and the bulldozers were on top of that.

http://www.pinedaleonline.com/news/2009/01/WYDOTtacklesTetonPas.htm