Son confirms visit and information that concerned me was slightly unnerving and some more things

Our eldest son has confirmed his desire to spend some time with us next week. And that was very nice; after all we are not quite as exciting as we used to be! This will be a couple of days after his 37th birthday that he will actually be spending with his girlfriend at Disney World on this up-coming weekend, but she works during the week and he is taking a few vacation days. Otherwise it would be nice to have met her. She is a couple of years older than him and a psychologist that works in human resources for a major grocery chain. Any-who, they have been dating only for a few months, maybe some day we shall meet her, who knows.

I had a nagging desire to know why I had a diabetic reaction to the IV Solu-Medrol that I was given in the hospital, and so I searched the internet. (You see diabetes is fairly prevalent in my family, paternal grandmother and a first cousin on that side too, my maternal aunt and her son, my cousin were all diabetics.)
And basically I came up empty, not too much about that, except that if you are a diabetic you should be monitored closely while on the therapy.
One of those open forums for discussions said that the steroids could cause diabetes, which to me sounded a little far fetched, and so I felt that asking a professional was not out of line.
And since I was calling the neuro’s office about the Baclofen uses for numbies, and I had an RN calling me back I figured might as well get the real low down on the info.
It turns out that it is possible to be a pre-diabetic with that type of reaction while on the IV therapy, and she agreed it may be wise to get checked, and so I will be on Thursday I made and appointment at the Health Department Office and hopefully they will send me for testing.

Bills for our little hospital get-a-ways have continued to come in today; this time for my hubby’s journey into the medical realm. We are taking each bill one at a time and requesting payment budgets that should work for the pay downs. And waiting on some more small miracles of absorption like with mine for not having insurance, but even with that we have received a few thousand dollars in bills, so we are still paying some of it all. In reality we did not expect a totally free ride. It’s just like receiving heavy discounts.

I suppose our 2001 auto will now have to hold up until 2014?
That’s what I am trying to rationalize in my mind that our payments are as if we were paying off a vehicle, but no interest charges so far.

It is just wonderful that a baby-boomer Latina woman has been named by our president to be a judge of the highest court in the nation, the Supreme Court, congratulations, Sonia Sotomayor. I am hopeful that she will be confirmed swiftly. Her acceptance speech was quite eloquent and poignant.

On that pleasant and refreshing note I will bid you all good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!