TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM
Today was doctor day and we arrived in plenty of time. I spent more time waiting in a room than I did in the waiting room. But I knew what was in store for me. We had to schedule the procedure (the camera cable) that would take a look at the bypass and see what was causing the *swish, swish* sound like it was obstructed by scar tissue perhaps. If there is an obstruction found and he has to use the balloon or the roto-rooter (his words), then I will have to stay overnight but go home in the morning. He told me, after checking my neck where he had done the last surgery to clear my carotid,, that he was both pleased and amazed at how well I was healing and that my recovery from everything had been without any complications of any sort. He told me my retinal doctor had told him the same thing after he had completed the laser surgery on my eye. I just wish that I didn't need any of the damn surgeries in the first place. To me, that would be more desirable.
So, here's the deal....pre-op tests are this Thursday at 1pm. After that is done, they will tell me what time to be here on Monday. My arterial doctor told me not to take my oral medication for the diabetes on Sunday. I won't take it on Monday, either, because I will not be eating breakfast or even coffee then. I DO take my other meds with a minimum amount of water. I'm getting way too knowledgeable about this stuff, don't you think? 
I chose Monday as the day to do the surgery/photography (LOL) because I don't get Chewlee that day so there's no worry about the Beast being home in time for her bus to drop her off. I'll be home early on Tuesday so I can wait for her bus as usual. On nice days, I sit on the front steps and wait for her. I always wave at the driver and Chewlee told me he told her to say hello to her grandmother for him the other day. I laughed. A wave goes a long way, I guess.
Chewlee already had a squiggly face yesterday so she won't be having a whole week of happy faces this week. But, if she hadn't gotten a happy face today, I found out she wouldn't have been able to go to the Pumpkin Patch tomorrow. Not that her teacher would have kept her from going but her mother told her that was what would happen. She would keep her home from school and she wouldn't go and pick out a pumpkin for herself for Halloween. Chewlee was so excited about it that it would have just KILLED her if she couldn't go. When she found out her mother wouldn't be going because she had classes (and tests, too), she then asked if I was or even Papa (he was her last choice). I told her that I would be here, waiting for her to bring her pumpkin home. I told her I would be at the end of the driveway so I could help her hold it (she will pick out a big one, trust me) and get it into the house without dropping it. That's when she told me it would be a really BIG pumpkin she picked.
I told her she might not be allowed to pick out a pumpkin she couldn't carry and she flexed her arms into a muscle and said, *I am really strong! See?* She makes me laugh when she does stuff like that. She believes she is strong because she can now carry my 5# hand weights, one in each hand, easily. A year ago, she could hardly pick up one and that was with BOTH hands. It is cute to realize that she can lift them like I do when I am exercising my arms. She tries to do some of the same things but she can't do them as many times as I can. The fact that she can do any of them while holding a 5# weight is amazing, don't you think? 
When the Princess got here after driving down from Athens, Chewlee was barely out of the bathtub and dressed. She still hadn't put her shoes and sox on but she scrambled to do that when her mother got here. She really loves her mother and is always excited when she gets here to pick her up. I think that's adorable and I encourage it when I can.
Sheepie called me to find out if I knew how to take her measurements. She is working for Hampton Inn now and she needs to turn them in for her uniform. I did that for a friend of mine a few years back when she became the concierge for one of the major hotels so I know the measurements they will need for her skirt, blouse and jacket so that it has that *fitted* look. She gets off work around 3pm so she and Teach will be here shortly thereafter.
She told me if the Beast and I go somewhere, to let her know two or three days in advance and she will make sure we get a room at Hampton Inn wherever we go and get her discount. Since the rooms there are around $99 a night, her discount will bring that down to somewhere between $49-59. and that's about what we pay at motels that aren't as nice as Hampton Inn. The Beast wants to go down to Mobile on the Gulf or somewhere nearby for two or three days so we can take advantage of that when we go. That is, IF the warm weather hasn't deserted us. He wants to do this soon. So do I. I miss the ocean and even the Gulf. We plan on doing *tourist-y* things, including having drinks at the Tiki bars on the beach.
Love you all. Have a great *hump day* and enjoy the weather we are having over most of the country. 
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