Crazy week

I'm sorry that I haven't been posting. It's just been a crazy week, filled with all kinds of events. I've squeezed in time here and there to visit some blogs, but not much.

It started with Rico breaking a spot in the dog run fence and escaping. I found him sitting on our front step. I put him back out and watched from the deck to see where the fence was fallible and saw him take off for it - right after a stray dog!


"George"

Ryan went to catch the dog, thinking he knew whose it was, but when he got to their house their beagle was in the yard. So he went to about 20-30 homes, trying to find the owner and couldn't. So we had the dog in our home as our guest for a few days while we distributed posters and called around. We'd taken him to the Vet and had him scanned but he had no chip.

He was very sweet and I named him "George." He was housetrained, but preferred being outside. Inside the house he would cry and cry and cry unless you would pet him. That got pretty annoying. Eventually we just took him to the local shelter.

My parents were expecting my aunt and uncle to come for a visit. But my Dad hurt his neck/shoulder and my mom wasn't able to use her right hand much, as she waited for her surgery this week. So we went up to help at their place, then at home I did cooking and baking for her. That took a few days.


When we arrived at the house on Saturday my aunt and her brother, my dad, were sitting here on the porch looking at old coins. They both love antiques and things with history. Ryan got in on the act as they shared the different coins and dates with Ryan. I was mostly excited about the old Jif jar my dad kept his coins in. It's the very old glass kind with the tin lid that says "Jif" on it. Nothing like todays! That's my uncle in the background.





This Monday my mom had surgery on her hand, carpal tunnel, and her trigger finger, plus a cortisone shot in her trigger finger on her other hand. So this week and next she only has her left hand to use and for right now it's still really sore and bruised from her shot. Yesterday we went up and spent a good part of the day there doing things. Meals, dishes, laundry, combing her dog (has to be groomed daily), etc.

Today we are staying home and tomorrow we will go back up again for the day.

As for my health, I have been having horribly debilitating headaches for the last week. Most of them go into migraines and I ran out of migraine medicine. I need to call the dr. for that. I'm having another problem that makes me wonder if I contracted C. Diff. from my IV meds and may need to get checked for that.

All of this makes like very interesting and not boring! But too hard to get on the computer for any length of time.

Please keep Alan Henley in prayer. I've mentioned him from time to time on this blog. He was a stunt pilot who was in an accident in his back yard and has been paralyzed since. Many, many complications. He's been admitted to ICU for the 2nd time in as many weeks. He has some bad infections going on and believed to be systemic. For much of the time he hasn't known his wife or where he is, which is very scary for his family. You can follow their CaringBridge page and updates, but they need your prayers most of all. They are a wonderful Christian family.