a new eye

July 28, 2007

The major event of this week was my eye surgery on Tuesday, the 24th. I thought it would be a major event, but happily, it turned out to be pretty trivial. I arrived at the surgery at 1 PM and was "processed" and ready for the scheduled surgery at 2 PM. I was home before 4 PM and had no pain. I took a Tylenol at bedtime as a precaution, but I think I probably would have done well without it. At this time I'm still instilling three sets of drops three times a day, but by Monday I'll be down to only one. I see the doctor on Monday.

The rest of the news...Ariel and Keegan were both here Monday and Friday. I took Wednesday off just in case, to recover.

On Friday Ariel and I made "sculptures" from foam balls; Keegan and Robert went shopping for the materials to make racks for six more solar panels and got a good start on building the rack. It was a partly cloudy and cool day, finally.

Since Thursday we have had daily rain showers. The creek is running and the grass is green.

Tomorrow we go to Denver to visit Russell at St. Joseph's. The word is that he'll be released from the hospital to in-home care on Monday. He clearly has opted to come home rather than go to an institution where he'd get his meals and 24-hour nurse if needed, for a visiting nurse and his home and outhouse. No one wants the responsibility of transporting him anywhere and especially not home after 5 days from open-heart surgery!

I had flowers sent to him from Bouquets, BJ Dyer's shop. I talked briefly with BJ. He has three shops now and doing well.