Adjusting to life without medical appointments

  Ann Marie sent an email saying I must blog almost every day – even if nothing happened!  She would be glad to see me writing a poem or a short story.  “Just do something Mom!!!!”

So, last week was the first week in months that the Geezer had no appointments.  We have been cut free!  We seemed directionless!  What to do with all of our time.  No alarms were set.  So we slept in.  Getting up at 10 am does shorten daytime hours!  Of course we are up watching the Daily Show and Colbert  so by the time we do get into bed it is midnight or later.  The other HUGH problem is that by eating breakfast at 11 all meal times are wrong.  The Geezer wants three meals – and he wants dinner at 6 pm.  The Crone tried to experiment with two meals and a light snack (since we seem to be eating too much for the level of our activity).  The Geezer ate the two meals and had about 5 or 6 light snacks.  So that plan is not going to work.  Send any suggestions.  The Geezer thinks we will just have to get up early – like 8 am.  My take on that is that I am becoming sleep deprived.  It must be noted here that when the Geezer needs to use the bathroom at night he must wake me up.  He does this twice during the night (like 3 am and 6:30 am). He falls back to sleep when his head hits the pillow.  It takes me somewhere between 15 to 30 minutes to get to sleep.  I think this is due to the amount of energy I am putting forth to get him out of bed, into the bathroom, out of the bathroom and back into bed!  So the Geezer is awake and now the day begins! 9:41 am.

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Holidays are over!

Well the parties are over.  The Christmas tree is down.  Holiday photos are off the wall and Brian heads back to Atlanta in the morning.  I think the holidays were fun but I am ready to get back to “normal” stuff.  I must say that everything was easier to do with Brian around to help.  He helped also with getting the computer to run better and he set up the Wii that Vern got me for Christmas!  He also managed to teach me how to turn on and off the Wii and how to get to the bowling game, and how to download and buy a game (Dr. Mario has returned!!!!) on line.  The only thing we did not do is take a lot of pictures.  That is the project for this week.

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Speech Therapy Today

I had thought that Vern’s speech therapy session for today was cancelled for today… I was wrong!  I called them this morning and they did confirm that he had an appointment.  So we left here at 1:10 for a 2 pm appointment.  Had trouble finding a parking spot at the Hospital and arrived at the check in desk with two and a half minutes to spare.  All the way there Vern was not talking to me. (Said he was tired) Then we got into Lori’s office and he talked and joked and did everything she said to do.  So she was very happy with him.  (So am I)  He is speaking louder and in sentences – not just his one word answers!  He is also able to recall some information and plan what he wants to say.  He does keep telling her that he really is a very quiet person.  A person who does not have very much to say!  I think sometime early in 2010 I will include some information about the rare disease Vern has aquired.  Tomorrow we will have grandchildren here – the water in their apartment building is being turned off from 9 am to 3 pm!  We just might go see a movie.

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Beginning again with the Blog!!!!

Well, Alan is sitting beside me to check out my bloging skills.  I have promised to blog at least a few times a week (or more).  Hope everyone reading this had a great holiday!  More information later.  I am in training right now.  I am trying to learn how to add photos to this blog.  That will make it much more interesting!

Oh! here I am with our newest grandson Sebastion (nick name:  Bash).  Maybe I should try one more photo!!!!!

Colorado Winter

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shhhhhhh…

First we infiltrated the Virtual… now Agent Kevin has infiltrated the Actual… that’s right, I’m here with Vern and Claudia… they’re like six feet away as I quietly type this while hiding behind a chair!  Here’s a live update:

Vern working on the last crossword puzzle from the Rocky Mountain News (which ended its 149 year 10 month run today)…

Claudia reading the heavy-duty Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon…

We’re all digesting a wonderful brunch from Mini’s and chatting…

Saba is hanging out.

All told, good times ahead for the weekend here.  That’s it for now — over and out… Kevin

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