Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Hubby's Result Show, So Far...

YES! I had made an escape today…with Hubby of course…
Wow, what an exhausting day and here I am not at all viral or germy or icky or sickly with any additional microorganisms so far.
We left the compound at exactly 10:45 A.M. for Hubby’s doctor’s follow up visit which was scheduled for 11:00 A.M. And yep that’s how close we live to the doctor’s office we got there with a couple of minutes to spare and that’s including Hubby putting my scooter together and us taking the elevator to the third floor and travel the winding corridors to the doctor’s new office! This was our second time there. The first time it was difficult for me to maneuver the longer never ending seemingly hallways. So that this time, since it was after all my first outing in weeks, we both felt it more advantageous to use my scooter and sure enough it was the right call.
Hubby’s doctor got his reports of all the tests on Hubby were all back and so far it appears that his adrenal glands showed an elevation in the blood work. And his chest was listened to and the doctor has warned of possibility of COPD which is the one in partnership/forefather of Emphysema. His echo ultrasound showed the beginnings pulmonary disease all due to the smoking. I do hope that Hubby finally will quit his smoking which he had done over a year ago but went back to with inhaling cigars, scary, he insists that two a day is his limit, but that is still not a very good idea! He smokes outside so I could not help answer the doc’s specific questions on that topic, and I felt at a loss.
I do know that I personally had to be told that I had TIA’s, mini strokes on my MRI before I realized that I had to stop and next month it will be five years that I quit on July 11th.2006! But it is true no matter how many times I have asked or nagged Hubby about quitting it hasn’t worked, one can only hope that the doctor finally got him to rationalize that it is now doing severe damage!
But even so it is still possibly reversible, if he stops!
A couple of new tests were called for to investigate further his adrenal issue and a PSA for what all you men know what that is for; consisting of more blood work and urinanalysis. He also gave him an additional prescription for a smoking cessation medication.

From there Hubby wanted to go to lunch and so we did at Bob Evans not even a block from the doctor’s office, he had a grilled chicken sandwich and cole slaw and NO fries!
And I had a cup of soup and salad, I had my usual unsweet iced tea with lemon and Hubby had raspberry lemonade.

The next stop I suppose could be a bit embarrassing to mention, but Nate Berkus would be so proud! Hubby and I saw that a neighbor had tossed this lone chair out on the curb for pick–up a few weeks’ ago garbage collection. It did have great bones it was all wood painted white with an oval/round cane back on it, even its cushion from a far did not look bad and it was neutral color off white swirl textured. From a glance I said go get to Hubby and sure enough he did.
He took to our side courtyard and checked it thoroughly for foreign matter or perhaps insect/termite damage and it was quite clean in that respect and so he brought it into his workshop behind the garage and washed it down with Lysol disinfectant.
And on closer inspection there were marks in the fabric that we thought might be washable and so I did try to do that with it in the machine but even after Hubby put the stain remover on the spots they would not come out. And so today we made a side trip to Joanne’s Crafts and Fabrics and purchased just enough in an exterior striped pattern, Wedgwood blue, white, apple green and a mellow yellow; quite cheerful!
The foam was shot too and so we got new of that as well.
Hubby had enough plywood left to make that all new too.
And so this is a project that I am looking forward to, and the chair has the coloring combination of three of the rooms in our home and so it could be used as extra seating in any of those rooms, as an accent piece.

Then we went to Publix for few missing grocery items and for our newest Hubby prescriptions and one of my refills.

And then home.
Dinner was leftovers or whatever we helped ourselves with; without formality.

On this non exciting but enlightening day for both of us let me be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to please count all your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here of be square, ok?
And thanks.

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