Want to go skinny dippin’?

Our GRANDsons Jacob and Matthew (11 and 8 ) went to Bible Camp in south Alabama. I picked them up on Saturday and on the way home we stopped for a swim in the creek at Vernon. Going off the rope swing was too much fun to waste on the young but I didn’t have [...]

Do you have a staple puller?

Harriet has an appointment with the surgeon tomorrow to have the staples removed from her arm. There are 18 of the big ugly things and they have never stopped hurting since they were put in 2 weeks ago. Also, the new implant in her arm, about 12 inches of a synthetic vein or artery, hurts [...]

ROOT CANAL

Harriet continues to make very slow progress in recovering from the latest surgery. The arm still looks like the leftovers from a bad accident in the butcher shop but they assure us that it is healing as it should. It still gives her lots of pain.
The dentist is going to try again to finish up [...]

Picture Posted

I didn’t have the nerve to post the picture of Harriet’s arm but I did send one to our children to show them what their Mother was enduring. And she posted the picture on her blog. If you’ve got the stomach for it, you can check it out at http://chameleon-kristie.blogspot.com/
I drove up to Camp [...]

Non-traditional medical treatment

Well, maybe you ladies would agree with Harriet that it is NOT “non-traditional”. And it is an absolutely essential part of your routine health maintenance. I took Harriet to the beauty parlor today where she got her hair done. We even added an additional bit of precautionary treatment by getting her nails done. The truth [...]

Ragged Edge of Panic

Harriet is having real difficulty ‘bouncing back’ from the surgery. Her arm is very sore and she has battled nausea and chest pains again. Her blood pressure dropped to 61/39 at dialysis this morning but they were able to get it back up to 98/70. They don’t like to let her [...]