This growing old is hard! I mean there are so many things that keep going wrong. Yesterday I went to one of the two grocery stores in town and the old guy in front of me at the self checkout left the stuff he just bought and but at least he noticed he didn't have anything and had to come back for it! Then I went to the other store and another old guy comes out with a cart full of stuff, stops by our car and says 'Oh, that isn't my car'! And off he went wandering around the parking lot. I'm also not talking about the stupid, lying crap that we get from our President and his ancient supporters in the House and the Senate. Invading Greenland; what shit!
Since we got home from our cruise we've mostly been going to doctors and we all know that isn't fun. To start with there is my wife's ankle. She broke it almost 2 years ago by slipping in the shower. She was airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital and had her ankle operated on to put it back together. Well, that was screwed up and she still cannot walk more than a couple hundred yards. So, of course, we've been talking to another surgeon about the ankle and he wants to freeze it. That should cut down on her ankle pain however she also has pain in her toes and no one is coming up with anything about that. But she is getting tested every way they can think of to make the surgery safe. Of course the surgeon is busy and can't do it this month and is going somewhere in May so we are looking at surgery in June and then a couple months of wheelchair before she can walk again!
Then there is me. I've noticed my eyesight is changing. When we are out driving in the day it is very bright; when I drive into the garage and close the door I can't see much of anything for at least a minute. That transition never used to be a problem; now days it's dangerous to get out of the car. You could step on all kinds of dangerous stuff! Clean up the garage? Oh, hell no! We donate to the VFW Food Pantry; when you have to go into the building it has no windows so you can't see a darned thing. And lots of those folks are as old as me!
We changed insurance companies at the first of the year and my old doctor doesn't take the new insurance so I've had to change doctors. Of course they want tests so I've gotten a bunch of tests as well. One of the tests said my blood platelet count was so low that the nurse called and said I should go to the emergency room and have a blood transfusion! So, off to the emergency room. They wanted to do their own tests so after FIVE HOURS of testing they proclaimed that the original test was wrong and I didn't need a transfusion. Well, that's good news but five hours??? And how many tests? I've had so many x-rays that I might be in danger of radiation poisoning (just kidding, I think).
So that's life in the fast lane around here. One day is overcast and 50 F (10 C) and the next is sunny and 90 F (32 C). Get up; feed the dog and the birds; pick a few weeds; have breakfast; then the fun stuff! Visit the doctor or whatever; sometimes we get visitors. Lately our electric co-op is trying to bring 5G internet to the town. A few months ago they ran lines along with the power lines that already hang behind the house. Now they are trying to connect the houses to those lines and that takes quite a few visits! One person to identify the electric entry to the house, a guy to spray paint showing where the power line runs and a couple of guys to dig a trench and bury a cable from their line to our house. We are told that there will be someone else to connect the line to the house then another to attach the line to our modem but they are in the future somewhere. It should be installed in a month or six at the rate they are going!
It is also true that there isn't much going on around here. There are some houses being built; that is VERY different from a few years ago but, still, it's not really affecting us. We do drive around and check out the new stuff but it's just concrete and plywood and shingles. The sunsets are still pretty good though.
Out in the world we've got Mr. Trump, AKA the Idiot in Chief, who just keeps doing stupid things. I have to admit that he isn't as stupid as the people he's appointed to be in his cabinet but, well, that would be a stretch. One of the really minor things Mr. Trump did just recently was to pardon a local politician who was appointed a judge and then found guilty of fraud. She was in Las Vegas and started a support group to build a statue of a local policeman who was killed in the line of duty. Then she used the money people donated to pay her rent, pay for her daughter's wedding and some plastic surgery. She was found guilty of a felony of conspiracy and wire fraud. So our felon of a president chose to remove the felony from this sorry ass judge. Actually, on a scale of 1 to 10, it's way down there but it's still just so wrong! The reporting is on the pvtimes.com website and her name is Michele Fiore.
Anyway, that's it for today. Have a good one and stay away from those sick people!