Streets safe in Preston??

I went to the doctor again yesterday, Friday. This time to Dr. Beckstead. Again, my blood pressure was high, 152/80.

Last week the mill in Preston burned. Don-Mike & Nick got some good pictures, but they're on THEIR computers. I told them I needed them to put them here on the blog. But, I found another blog to share who has some great pictures of both the mill fire & the cougar caught behind the U&I Furniture in Preston, complete with quite a good story on the cougar. Here's another source also, The Preston Citizen. You'll need to dig a little on the Citizen website to find the mill fire, but it's there.

New sale date

Citi Mortgage called this afternoon. The new sale date is 5/13/11. I'm glad it was postponed for more than 30 days. My certificate for bankruptcy is only good for 6 months though. We're still waiting on the same thing we were waiting on in September, an appraisal. Nothing we can do though. Just keep checking in every week.

Don reminded me we have a court date on Monday at 3 p.m. I thought it was Tuesday, so now it looks like I'll have to take Monday afternoon off. It's a good thing I've got vacation I have to use or lose again this year. I lost vacation hours in 2010.

Took Nick to the doctor this morning. He has bronchitis. We weighed him, Nick & I. It's the only place we can weigh him. I looked at the weight & told Nick he needs to lose. I've noticed his shirts are showing more skin. I asked Carolyn (nurse) if she wanted to mark the weight down, she said sure. I leaned close & whispered we didn't really want her to mark it down. I did tell her what it is, but don't know if she marked it or not.

I take Mother in to the doctor tomorrow. Her sisters are worried about her breathing. I wonder if she has bronchitis or pneumonia.

Weekly update 3/14/10

Do I really want to do a weekly update?

1. I have read from The Book of Mormon daily. check
2. Wednesday: Took Mother to have an ultrasound of her carotid artery. Good result. Had her INR checked, down .2 to 2.4, means it's a little thick. Recheck in 1 week.
3. Thursday: Took Nick in for his med check, complete with a blood check. Results are "better than last time." Whatever that means.
4. Friday: Took Mother in to primary care physician, he put her on another new med for her COPD.
5. Worked Friday afternoon & found a problem with a couple of legals, grrr

 6. Saturday: Watched a movie, Are We Done Yet, with Mother & she loved it
7. Sunday: And last, but not least, Daylight Savings Time is here!!! BOOOOO!!! HISSS!!! And, since we "spring ahead," I got to bed "late" & got up "late" & then, because I slept in, the sun stayed up late. As Bishop LeGrand Burton once said to my mom one spring Sunday, "It's later than you think!"

So, even though my body says it's only 10:30, the clock says it's 11:30 & I have to get up at 6, not 7 in the morning, grrrr.

Lent, Day 19

Can you believe it? It's 8:50 p.m. Facebook & Shockwave both have new layouts. Two favorite sites on one day changed drastically. I don't know if I can handle it.

Only one doctor's visit today too, guess I'll have to go update Mother's Caring Bridge site. Nick went over to Mother's this morning & Don-Mike was still asleep. Nick didn't stay long, but he came home & after I was awake awhile, he came & sat on the bed & visited with me for quite a while. I shared several funny stories about Mother & Daddy & we laughed. I told him about Don-Mike coming in & waking me up this morning.

Me, sound asleep, & Don-Mike, don't know what he did to wake me up, kneeling on the bed looking down at me. I said, "Oh, Eddie, what are you doing?" Don-Mike: "Eddie?" Me: "Oh, Nick? What've you got in your eye?" Don-Mike: "My eye?" Me: "Oh, Don-Mike, umm, never mind." By then I was coherent enough to realize it was Don-Mike & he just had his glasses on. What I had seen was the white nose piece on his glasses & I couldn't figure out what that white thing was on his face. I had been completely & soundly asleep.

I had taken some Western Family cold & flu daytime formula lemon "stuff," that you mix in hot water. It is supposed to compare with TheraFlu. I went to bed, like 11:30 or just a few minutes past. I didn't fall immediately into a sound, dreamless sleep, but once I could breathe through my nose, I did fall asleep. It wasn't dreamless either, when I woke up, staring into Don-Mike's face, my butt was cold & I was all tangled up in my covers with my butt hanging out in the cold. I had Prissy right next to me, practically breathing in my face, & Marsha on my feet. I think it was about 9:30 this morning.

The lemon stuff said not to take it if you have 1) high blood pressure, 2) diabetes, 3) thyroid disease, 4) heart disease, 5) low sodium diet & umm, one more that applies to men only, trouble peeing because of prostate. Well, I only had 2 of the 5 things, high blood pressure & diabetes, so I decided to take it. I remember thinking that Mother couldn't take it because she has 4 of the 5 things, she doesn't have diabetes.

I'm going to take it again tonight, unless Don takes it. There is only one packet left. I didn't use any more Zicam because it said you could only take it 3 days in a row. The lemon stuff worked better anyway. It helped with the fever.

Today when I went over to pick up Mother to take her to Logan, I asked her what she had for lunch today in her home-delivered meal. She said, "Salty soup." I said you're not supposed to have salt. She said she didn't eat it. I asked what it had in it besides salt. She said she thought it was supposed to be chicken noodle soup. When I got home, I looked at it & I think it was supposed to be chicken chow mein. The noodles were soggy chow mein noodles. There was some dry ones in a plastic baggie.

She said she was going to mix in the soup that Don had taken over to her last night. I was looking at the soup & started laughing. I said that you're supposed to put a potato in your soup if you've made it too salty. That's what she had last night was potato soup.