Last weekend we traveled to visit Hubby's family. There was no new information regarding Father-in-Law's dianosis. FIL will go the doctors next week for more testing. FIL is good spirits but seemed to be battling a touch of a flu bug as we left town.
On our way home a close friend of Hubby's (the best man in our wedding) called. Hubby had called him when we were in town. The guy travels tons for work so catching him home is very hit or miss. Turns out his wife went to be with him out on the east coast, she was about 7-8 month pg and she started having some complications and they had to deliver the baby who weighs in at a whopping 2lb 10 oz. Certainly not the tiniest baby ever born, but not a healthy weight either and now they are out on the coast for an undertermined length of time while all their family is here in the midwest. I haven't had any updates on that situation in a few days.
Mom has somebody nibbling at her house. The real estate agent called today to ask about some flooring - what's under the carpet - so hopefully that will not scare them off too much.
Yesterday I sent Mom with Igor on his pre-school field trip. They went to a "farm" really more of a petting zoo. The weather was grand and I thought it good for Igor to hang with Grandma a little since he's a little snot to her a lot of the time. He's been a snot to everyone lately, but with her it seems a little extreme.
With the weather change this week operation "Mom Walk" has begun. Tuesday, we wondered through the neighborhood, up and down the hills to the tune of .8 miles (I later went back and clocked it). Wed we took the long route to the elementary school to pick up Sonny Boy, Yesterday she had a fair amount of walking at the "farm" and today was likely a full mile as we walked down to Igor's preschool to pick him up. I can't say I see a huge jump in stamina yet, certainly better than when she first arrived and we wouldn't get 100 yards from the house but the walking push has yet to show dividends. Doesn't help that the four days we were gone to the in-laws she didn't even leave the house or try to excercise at all.
Hubby is in Louisville KY for the weekend working standby for all the hoity toity people who are flying in on their private jets for the derby. He said many of the women are already all dressed up in the hats and the like as they come through the private jet terminal. He reports that the really rich people are not even coming through the terminal though, just hopping in a limo out on the tarmac. Must be nice. Hubby had volunteered for this gig several weeks ago as I had always said I wanted to go. Then we checked ticket prices. OMG! To stand on a muddy infield was 40+ a head and parking was well over 100. To actually sit the tickets were in the 300 range and went sky high from there. Needless to say I'm home with the boys and Hubby and I will both be watching the derby from a T.V. - him in bar or hotel room and me in the Living Room.
Well must cut this short, time to go get Sonny Boy from school. Excuse the bad grammar etc as I'm not even going to proof this.
WINNIE'S LITTER Just a little blog of the ins and outs and ups and downs in the life of a mom.
2 comments:
Try and get to Louisville in the off season as Churchill Downs is an incredible place to visit--when it isn't the Derby. The kids would LOVE it. It has a great hands-on museum that is well worth the trip. Also nearby is the Louisville Slugger Museum and "factory". We love Kentucky, but Louisville is definitely a good start.
Has your mom had a good health exam and blood work up recently? There may be a simple reason why she is so sedentary--well, I mean other than she is just sedentary. :P I'm not diagnosing or anything, but I had really low iron for years and I couldn't do anything. Seriously. I would be outside and then have to lay down. It was awful.
Hope she sells the house! I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Well, when Mom had her incident at the ER a couple of months ago they ran a bunch of blood work. I definitely discussed with the doctor checking her thyroid which came back in the normal range.
I do worry as she is continuing to lose weight even here and she is eating reasonable amounts of food. Hard to get into the doc when you have no insurance and no money and have random symptoms they will likely chase for eons.
The sedentary is her. Honestly she suffers from a big case of lazy or depression or both. Personally I think she needs a tweek in her anti-depressants as well.
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