Friday Fragments - July 15, Edition

It's time for Friday Fragments again, courtesy of Mrs. 4444 at Half-Past Kissin' Time.  Can you believe it's July 15th already, the official middle of the summer?  Where have the days gone?  It's nice to not be working, but I have yet to do anything that feels like actual vacation.  Pardon me, while I whine a little about that.....  Whaaaaa!!


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Behinds are dragging around here this morning.  My husband, who went to the emergency room last Friday night for a kidney stone then played around with it all week (ignoring his wife who thought he needed to go back to the ER as early as Sunday evening) and went to work every day, wound up in the emergency room again yesterday morning at 4:30 A.M.  He was in excruciating pain and had chills to where the sweat was just pouring off of him.  It was decided that the chances of him passing a 7mm stone were pretty slim so around 8:00 he was admitted to the hospital.  A urologist talked to him around 9:00 or so to explain the options and see what he wanted to do.   Basically, the choices were to go home and pray it passed (over my dead body) or have a surgeon go in through the bladder, break up the stone with a laser, and insert a stint (ding, ding, ding...we have a winner).  At 11:30 the surgeon came to explain the procedure and time frame.  A little before 2:00 they wheeled him down to the OR and my mom and I went to the surgical waiting room.  At 3:15 the surgeon called us and said everything went well and the hubs was on his way to the recovery room.  By 5:15 he was back in his room with three things he had to accomplish in order to go home.....no fever, pee, eat without throwing up.  He accomplished all those pretty quickly, but the nurses added "wake up a lot more" to the list because he wasn't coming out of the anethstesia (sp?...probably way off but too lazy to look it up today) fog very well.  A little before 8:00 I asked if he was going home or not because if he wasn't, I really wanted to go home myself...having been at the hospital since 4:30 that morning.  The nurses then got him up and had him walk up and down the hall once.  He managed to do that without hurting himself so they declared him fit enough to go home and a little before 9:00 we were finally free.  It was a long, long, looooong day.


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I was totally overwhelmed yesterday by the outpouring of support and prayers that found their way to my phone via Facebook and family.  My phone was rarely silent all day.  In fact....the battery in my phone couldn't keep up and died not long before we got to come home.  What a blessing that was!


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Megan and Cody got back from Niagara Falls on Tuesday.  They had a good time and brought back a lot of gifts for everyone.  Cody bought Megan several things related to the Senecas.  He doesn't need to spend so much on her, but it is a refreshing change after the jerks she has dated before.  It is nice to see him treating her well.  By the way, you'll all be proud of me.  I managed not to freak or cry or get mad about the fact that my 18-year-old daughter went away for a couple of days with her boyfriend.  Don't get me wrong...I still don't approve, but if I don't want to lose her I have to accept her as she is.  She was raised with my values and she knows how I feel.  All I can do at this point is pray that some day she will come back around.


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Somebody really needs to get in the garden today.  It could use a bit of weeding and I haven't looked at it all week, but I know the beans need picked.  They probably needed picked on Tuesday or Wednesday.  There are probably some zucchinis and cucumbers out there, too.  Somebody really needs to mow the grass, too.  I'm hoping to make that somebody, Megan.  Tim is home today and I don't want him getting any bright ideas.


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It looks like my neighbors are setting up to have their yearly garage sale extravaganza tomorrow.  Normally, it irritates me because looky-loos usually start showing up at 6:30, slamming their car doors and yakking away....totally rude on a summer Saturday morning.  Tomorrow, however, I'll already be up and on my way to being a yard saler.  A little community down the road from here is having their town-wide sale.  I'm meeting a friend and my mom might go.  I go every year because I can park the car and just walk from sale to sale and there are a lot of them.  Much better than having to get in and out of the car constantly.  We'll be going early....tomorrow the heat and humidity are supposed to make a comeback.


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Today I have a lot of running to do.  Tim's prescriptions need filled first thing then I have flyers to pick up for the car show and trophies to order and the rep from Aspen is coming by at some point to settle up for the roof.  We have to sign the final papers and I have to give him the final check.  I also want to get in some groceries and do some cleaning because our son and his family are coming tomorrow night and staying to spend Sunday with us and get some time in the pool.  We can't wait to see our granddaughter splashing around in the inflatible pool we got her.  It's one of those ones with sprinklers and a slide and other things built in.  I think she will have a ball.  I'm glad it's going to be hot.


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