Surviving the storm and a little more

It’s Sunday night, I’m upstairs on the computer and Linda’s asleep. Kim made it back safe from visiting her Mom this weekend, after 6 hours sitting in traffic. The kids are around the table downstairs scarfing up on the brownies and cookies Jessica made today. I hope they leave some for me.

Our tree is up. We all went to get the tree at Home Depot on Friday night. Matt, Jessica’s boyfriend took his truck to bring back the tree. Jason met us there and we picked out the tree. While we were there, a young man with an old Chevy pickup had bought a tree, but couldn’t get his truck started. Jason went over and banged on the starter a few times and helped him get it started.

The Snow Storm of 2009 came with Saturday. Jason volunteered to transport Nurses and others back and forth to the hospital and was gone just about the whole day. I’m sure missing Kim and his joy of 4wheeling had something to do with it, but I think it was noble.

On Saturday, Linda and Jessica trimmed the tree. I was still under the weather and just kind of kept out of their way. There wasn’t much football, so I finished 2 books. They were kind of short and both were good, so I kind of flew through them. My next door neighbor Bob P brought over his snow blower cleaned the sidewalk and as far up the driveway as he could get. Thanks Bob. Jimmy S called and invited us to go for a ride to his daughters house for a party. I was tempted, but just was not up to it. I understand that they partied into the night. I knew I would have run out of gas about 8pm. Thanks for the invite Jimmy and Louann. Maybe next time.

Today was a good day. My feet are back to normal, just a little residual pealing, but not hurting at all. The meds for the UTI seems to be on top of it, and the med that Lou gave me has just about cleaned up my mouth.

I felt so good that I decided to take my 200mpg leaf blower and see how it working on the snow on the cars in the driveway. It was actually moving a little off the cars, but you had to get real close and the blowback was very cold and wet. After about 5 minutes of that I was resembling Frosty a little too much and decided to let the kids clean them the conventional way.

For the record, I am proud of my kids. Jessica found out Friday that she did get the job that she interviewed for on Friday. She starts her long term sub position in February. Jason goes out of his way to help people. This isn’t the first time he volunteered at the hospital. He probably used $50.00 in gas driving from Glen Burnie to Mt Airy. He helped the boy out at Home Depot, laying on the ground underneath the truck in his new coat. While he was out today, he worked for 2 hours helping someone get their truck pulled out of a ravine. Jason and Jessica are both good people and I am proud of them.

I start back on the Axitinib tomorrow morning, and the thyroid meds probably the day after. We’ll see how it goes.