My first update is on my mother who turned 82 last week.  As most of you know her blood pressure was so totally out of control and so her Dr. put her in the hospital to see what the problem was.  Turns out she had blocked arteries to her right kidney, so they inserted two stints in and almost immediately her blood pressure was in a reasonable range it went from 240/110 to 150/70 which was wonderful .  They also did a heart cath on her too and it came out fine, no blockages and on Friday afternoon they let her come home which she was so grateful for as she said she could not get any rest at the hospital.  So this past weekend, we just let her rest and I fixed her meals and let hubby take them over as I had or thought I had a bad cold and I did not want to take a chance on giving it to her.  They want me to monitor her blood pressure daily and if there is a drastic change I am to call the Dr. right away.  So my neighbor who is a RN is taking her pressure for me and keeping record.  Well  I just got more stuffy and stuffy and broke down and went to the Dr. today as I was afraid I had caught the flu while I spent 3 days in the hosptial with Mom.  It's the germ capital of the world seems like!!! Well it turned out to be a real bad sinus infection and he even did a test on me to see if I did have the flu and it came back negative!!! Yeah!!  Now a little funny about the nurse who came in to take a swab and I immediately open my mouth and she shoved the Qtip looking thing up my nose!!!! I was so red in the face and I told her so and she said don't worry about it honey everyone opens their mouth!!! LOL  How was I to know I had never been tested before for the flu!!  Anyway I'm over it and let me tell you as I told my friends on FB "Getting Old is not for Whimps" but today I am a big whimpiee!!! 

 

After I found out I didn't have the flu I fixed Mom's supper and took it over and ate with her.  She looked real good, and ate all of her supper.  I hope she continues to do well. 

 

Other news , today my grand daughter called and I guess while she was away someone broke into her apartment and stole the money out of little Hayden's piggy banks. One she had full as she could not put any more money in it and the other wasn't quite full.  They also stole her ipod!!  She was so upset. She called the law, but I doubt if she will ever get any of it back.  She was so upset, mainly that someone had been in her place going through her things. She said she felt so violated.  I told her I know how you feel as we have been robbed three times and its very upsetting and I understood.  I hope they catch whoever did this to her as she and Hayden just barely get by!!  I know the economy is bad but she is a single mother and she is trying to better herself, she goes to school, take care of Hayden and then someone takes what little bit she had saved for Hayden!!! Makes me so mad!!  How could anyone steal from this face?

 

Ok onto happier things, I've got a picture I wanted to share with you. It is of Rachel my grand daughter who you all helped win the scholarship. She loves Sun Flowers and this is her crop this year.  She did have one huge one and I'll share it too. She is a sweet as they come and she loves to dig in the dirt just like her grandmaw!! LOL 

 

This week the puppies are going to the vet to be fixed. Just want these two no more puppies.  I'm having them both done at the same time so they can recoup together.   They are doing really well on coming back to me now since I shocked them a couple of times, all they have to do now is see the remote in my hand and they come running.  I hated to do that to them but I was afraid they were going to get ran over by a car or another dog hurt them.  

 

Well dear friends news is slow in this neck of the woods and hopefully I will have more to tell you the next time and in the mean time I'm going to take a pill so I can tolerate being outside with the rag weed!!!

 

Have a wonderful week and God Bless.