Vacation

Since my vacation had been scheduled for August and I will be off anyway because of the surgery, I decided to bump it up, and take it now. So for the next two weeks I am free from work. I don't think I will go away, but maybe I will. I can't decide.
I received a call from the hospital, and I have my pre-op on July 28, they also asked what kind of a room I wanted for my stay, and I have asked for a private. My insurance will pay, and then it should not matter how loud my visitors get, they won't bother the other guests.

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Why do you have remove nailpolish before you can have surgery?

Summer with Crutch

We went camping this week for a couple days. Figured I could sit at home limping around, or sit around on the beach. Richard was agreeable to loading etc. so we went to the Forestry site just past Fintry. Cheaper, site right on the beach, lovely. Sites are a bit closer together than at a provincial site-but less people and quieter-unless I suppose that you end up beside drunken hunters or something. There was a site host though and she ran a tight ship. Did not allow people to 'reserve' meaning put up a chair, pay and then come back 2 days later to claim it. as she said, "I'm Irish and menopausal".
They lost my report of injury due to implementing a new computer system-so am quite sure that i will not be getting surgery this week as they haven't approved my claim yet. (does this bring up thoughts of your work Judith?) I made several calls a couple days ago to facilitate this approval process as it is one large bureaucratic nest of people who need to be sharing information with one another. However, I remained pleasant and congenial with all of them as they were all trying to sort this out too. Right now am waiting to make sure claim is approved, guy at WCB seemed to think there would be no problem, once Persons' X,Y, and Z gave him the correct information. Unfortunately, i think the surgeon is on holidays starting next week for 2 weeks, so don't know how that will impact things. They had better not schedule it during my vacation.Mother of Pearl, this process takes a long time.
It is supposed to get to 33 this week, starting today, but we have air conditioning! This will not help as I go to Jones to weed. Pushing myself along in the dirt.
Terasen Gas continues to send us gas bills in the wrong name-Richard Winsink, despite me telling them several times. I feel that I cannot manage anymore phone calls correcting things that are wrong.
Bill and Kathy will be here next week. We have come up with a list of things to do, all of them are basically not involving me very much due to being on crutches. I can walk quite a bit further in them now that i have calluses forming under my armpits, but still limited. So either, I go someplace, and then plunk myself down somewhere with a book to wait until Richard, Bill, and Kathy come back, or I send them out and stay at home with a book.
We went to the fireworks last night, they were well done. We got a close parking spot and exited the downtown quickly, knowing the North End routes to take.

Another Dennis Update

Just talked to Marylynne, and she said that Dennis will be having his surgery tomorrow at 10:30. He is getting a valve replacement, because of the aneurysm, as well one of his arteries is 90% blocked so they are going to fix that. She also said that the Dr. said the reason for his aneurysm is because there are supposed to be 3 aortic leaflets (I think that is what it is called) and he only has two, which means that puts stress on the aorta, by blood pushing against the wall of aorta, which then causes the aortic aneurysm. The Dr. in Phoenix said this condition is genetic. Marylynne thinks we all need Ultra sounds now to check it out. She has not talked to her Mom and Dad yet, but did reach Dennis at the hospital, so got the information from him. I asked how he got diagnosed, and she said he was having some numbness and chest pains so went to the Dr, and then everything unfolded from there. The weird thing is Deanna was having some trouble with ther heart last year, and they did an ultra sound, and found she only had two as well, but did not pass along the information regarding the aneurysm to her. Marylynne did talk to Nancy, and also sent her an email, to let her know, but she is not sure how to reach the Carlson's so they don't know yet.