Lazy days

 I'm spending my days in my recliner, with my legs elevated.  Ned took pictures of my legs the first day we went to the doctor, and a week later when we went back and the treatment he is giving them, as well as the elevation, is making a big difference.  But I sure have no energy and haven't even come into my office for two days.  

Will I ever get all these letters answered?  The combination of the legs elevated and just not feeling like writing since Char died has made it difficult to think of starting to answer them.

I'm feeling stronger about sitting in my office, but somehow when I try to write something, I just can't.  

Sunday Stealing

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1. What’s your guilty pleasure? 
   Watching NCIS reruns
2. Which meal is your favorite: breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
   breakfast
3. What do you do when you want to chill out after a long day?
   Well, I don't have "long days" any more.  I chill out in front of the TV.
   
4. How would you spend your ideal weekend?
   These days, doing what I do every other day.
5. Do you listen to podcasts, or mostly just music? What’s your favorite podcast?
   I have listened to and enjoyed podcasts, but haven't listened to many lately.  I just started listening to Jon Stewart's podcast.
6. Do you prefer to go to the movies or watch movies at home?
   at home
7. What was your favorite TV show growing up?
   So many.  I guess the Ed Sullivan show.
8. What’s your favorite TV show now?
   I guess NCIS...I haven't seen enough of the new shows yet to have a favorite...but Outlander returns November 22.
9. How would you spend your birthday if money was no object? 
   pay for Jeri & Phil, and Tom and family to fly up here to spend a few days.
10. What’s your favorite season? What do you love most about it?
    Fall.  The temps are cooler and the upcoming season is winter.
11. Do you prefer camping or going to the beach? 
    Don't enjoy camping any more.  How about a cabin at the beach?
12. Which phone app do you think you use the most?
    Facebook
13. Would you instead cook, order delivery, or go out to eat? 
    Order delivery
14. How do you drink your coffee?
    Peet's French Roast, black
15. If you could have any animal as a pet, what would you choose? 
    I'm happy with our dog, Bubba

   

  

Saturday 9

Welcome to Saturday 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Me and Bobby McGee (1971)

Unfamiliar with this week's song? Hear it here. 

1) The song begins with Janis telling us about a trip from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Have you ever visited Louisiana? If yes, where did you go?
We went to New Orleans as chaperones for a jazz choir that was competing (they won).

2) She and her boyfriend Bobby hitch a ride with a truck driver and together the three of them sing "every song the driver knew." If you were to begin a singalong with strangers in a bar or at a party, what song would you confident everyone knows?
LOL.  I Googled "songs that everyone knows" and got a list of 100 songs, none of which I recognized.

3) Janis had a painful time in her Port Arthur, TX, high school. She was ostracized for her looks and her taste in music. If you could give advice to your high school self, what would you say?
Enjoy your time here.  Do as much as you can.  Make good friends.

4) She credited the blues and Bessie Smith, specifically, for getting her through her tough adolescence. After she became famous and mentioned Bessie in interviews, Janis learned Ms. Smith had been buried in an unmarked grave back in 1937. Janis rectified the situation by paying for a proper tombstone for Smith in 1970. If money were no object, what's something you would like to do for someone else?
This question would have been a lot easier to answer 10 years ago.  Today...?  Probably pay for Jeri's new car.

5) Because of her party girl persona, people were surprised that Janis had a domestic side and enjoyed talking recipes. Thinking of cooking, what dish would you whip up for our Saturday 9 potluck?
Lasagna.

6) "Me and Bobby McGee" was written by the late Kris Kristofferson. Kris' life before hitting it big was varied, including time in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, focused on English literature, and serving as a helicopter pilot in the US Army. Which career path do you think you'd enjoy more: academia or the Army?
Oh definitely academia.

7) In 1971, when this song was popular, the US Mint introduced the Eisenhower Silver Dollar. Think of the last thing you bought at a store. Did you pay with cash, plastic, or your phone?
I bought a t-shirt and paid with plastic.

8) England's Princess Anne turned 21 in 1971 and in honor of the occasion, she had an official portrait taken by fashion photographer Norman Parkinson. Who took the most recent photo of you?
Ned took a picture of me at the doctor's 2 days ago.

9) Random question -- There's a knock at your door. Who do you expect it is?
A UPS guy delivering something from Amazon.

Another day at Kaiser

So we went back to Kaiser to have my legs checked.  Ned had redressed them twice, but the blister was stll there.  We saw the two nurses who would be re-dressing them this time and they said that doctor needed  to look at it.  But my doctor was not in the office.  They figured she wouldn't really want to check of the legs, but they had to get another doctor to come and check.

We waited an hour for the doctor to come in for 5 minutes and then confer with the nurses, and send me to the wound care office in Vacaville.

My next appointment is not until November 7.  In the meantime, Ned will be taking care of the legs.  He has gotten a real in depth lesson in what to do and why,

I have to admit that there is a part of me which is feeling very guilty that he is having to do so much work on my legs.

A note for Char

 This is one of those days when I miss Char...well, every day is a day when I miss her.  I watched Ned take care of my legs today...took about half an hour to wash, grease and bandage both legs in preparation for tomorrow's appointment at Kaiser.  I thought of how incredibly fortunate we are (a) that Ned lives here, and (b) that he is willing and capable of taking such good care of us.  I don't know what would happen, especially to me, if Ned were not living here.

This is the thing I  would have shared with Char, and not written as a journal entry.

Lazy me

 Ned wants me to keep my legs elevated as much as possible, so I've been spending most of the day in the recliner, with Bubba, watching TV and doing nothing else!

doctor day

 I had  long day at Kaiser on Friday.  The doctor said she wanted to see the blister on my leg.  Ned and I got t o Kaiser shortly before my appointment, but I was so slow he went and got a wheelchair to push me around in.  What a difference!  Ned is so great.  He thinks of everything, has great ideas for how to do things, talks to the doctor (who is from Bangladesh and Ive never been able to understand her accent), asks the right questions, understands what is suggested and...best of all...takes pictures for me to put in my journal.

 

We got the blister examined and a (nurse? doctor?) cleaned it up and got it all dressed, showing Ned how to change the dressing, and asking us to come back in a week,

Then I had t old the doctor of my new problem, being unable to lift anything with any weight on it (even something like my coffee cup), unable to take milk down from a high shclf in the refrigerator, soe she sent me for an x-ray.

After the x-ray, I went to get blood work done.  They asked if I could give a urine sample, but I could feel that I needed to have a bowel movement, which is difficult to have without my bidet, so I said I could not...and then going out to the car, I couldn't hold the bowel movement, so had to go in my pants.

We came home and Ned did a good clean up for me.  I was so incredibly grateful for all he did.