92nd Birthday

My birthday was very nice. The kids all came over. We sat around and talked. My Grandson Michael called from Virginia. He is in the Navy like I was.

At both dances they announced my birthday. So I had birthday after birthday after birthday.

Now 92 years is over and we are starting on the 93rd and hope for the best.

More later.

Adventures on the house

I have been having adventures on the house. Oh my goodness!!!

Several months ago I had all of my floors replaced with wood flooring. It had been a long time since the flooring was done.

Schumann Falls - A couple of weeks ago I came home and heard a hissing sound and the bathroom was full of spray! The water was shooting up the wall. It was too much for me to get in there to shut off the valve. I had to locate the valve at the street to turn off the water there...by then the damage had been done. Lorene and Alaine came over and we all swabbed up as much water as we could. Alaine sent out the alarm to the rest of the family. Ken was on his way to look at the plumbing problem, Donna and Jack came with their shop vac to try to soak up the water from the carpets.

When the insurance company came to dry everything out it turned out it had saturated the sub-flooring in the bathroom, entire kitchen and eating area, part of the living room, and two bedrooms. What a mess!!!!!

As we were cleaning up and getting estimate I looked around and came to realize I had better put on a new roof as well.

Lots going on around here to get all of this fixed up!!! I wish it was as easy to get my old body fixed back up....

The following Wednesday or Thursday I went to the dance and told my dancing partner about getting flooded out. The word spread throughout the dance about my flooding story.

I really came to appreciate my family for all of their help in getting things straightened out. In this case blood really did turn out to be thicker than water...Thanks everyone. Thank you all of the help you have been.

I Am Still Here!!!!!

It has been quite a long time since I posted.

Last November I spent a few nights in the ICU on a ventilator starting on a Sunday night. But, by the next Thursday I was back at home.

Here is a little bit of the story from Lorene's point of view:

On Friday afternoon I went to Lorene's and spent the night. I was not feeling good. By Saturday morning I still wasn't feeling good and it was very painful to walk. I drove home. Lorene followed me in her car. Alaine came to my house thinking she would take me to see her new office that was being remodeled. But instead, she talked me into going to Emergent Care at Group Health.

I was having a harder time breathing than usual and my foot was very painful and I couldn't get warm. They said I had cellulitis in my foot and gave me some IV antibiotics and some pain pills to take home. At bedtime that evening Lorene gave me some of the pain pills and I went to bed.

I woke around one in the morning having a terrible time breathing. I had Lorene call Alaine. Then she called the Medics.

Next think I knew it was three days later and I was in the ICU. I had a tube down my throat and I wanted it out of there. The doctors and nurses wanted me to get used to breathing on my own and said I had to keep the tube in for a few more hours. Alaine was there with me when they finally took the tube out.

My whole family was in the ICU for quite a bit of the time I was there. Even my grandson, Michael, flew in from Virginia. They were all worried I would never make it home.

I can't remember much of the time in the intensive care unit and it took a while to get back to where I could function on my own. But....here I am still kicking.

I am even back to dancing a little and have been out to sing Karaoke with Lorene a few times.

More to come soon.