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.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Summer continues
July 22, 2007
This past week has been another one with the kids here three days. The other two we punt. On Tuesday I had a hair appointment and then two appointments addressing pre-surgery issues for cataract surgery to be performed on the 24th. On Thursday I did my usual stint at the Carnegie Library and grocery shopping.
In the meantime Robert has gotten the solar system monitor to talk to his computer and has written a program to give us a read out at our computers so that we may monitor the system without having to go to the actual instrument. YEA! It is really cool. The next step is to graph the information for easy reading and after that, eventually, to be able to control the system from the computer! That will be really fantastic.
Ariel discovered Julie Luckey's cat this week and we visited with it Monday and Wednesday, but on Friday it was missing and Julie said it had been out all night and not come back. I don't understand why, in this area, anyone would let their pet stay out all night. Hopefully, it will come home, but the chances are unlikely.
This week Russell was to have his open heart surgery. The whole community has been struggling to convince him that he won't be able to come home after only 5 or 6 days in the hospital. He was determined that we would take care of him and drive him daily to his therapy sessions. It was a struggle to get through to him that the community couldn't do that and wouldn't do that. He seems reconciled. His surgery was set for last Tuesday and Eric was taking him in to St. Joseph's in Denver, leaving here at 5 AM. At 3 AM Russell got a call saying an emergency heart surgery had occurred and his surgery would have to be postponed. That's a tough one. It must be difficult enough to get ready for such extreme surgery, but to then have to wait another week is really hard.
Russell has been out and about all week and stated that he feels good; perhaps he shouldn't have the surgery. But he is going through with it.
Russell lives in the little cabin that Robert owns. It is called "Miner's Rest." It is on Eric's land, but has squatter's rights. Robert has rented it to Russell for more than thirty years and never raised the rent. Russell pays $45.00 a month to live there. At one time he was fed up with the commute to Longmont and said he was going to move. He went looking for housing and after that we never heard another thing about him planning to move.
This past week has been another one with the kids here three days. The other two we punt. On Tuesday I had a hair appointment and then two appointments addressing pre-surgery issues for cataract surgery to be performed on the 24th. On Thursday I did my usual stint at the Carnegie Library and grocery shopping.
In the meantime Robert has gotten the solar system monitor to talk to his computer and has written a program to give us a read out at our computers so that we may monitor the system without having to go to the actual instrument. YEA! It is really cool. The next step is to graph the information for easy reading and after that, eventually, to be able to control the system from the computer! That will be really fantastic.
Ariel discovered Julie Luckey's cat this week and we visited with it Monday and Wednesday, but on Friday it was missing and Julie said it had been out all night and not come back. I don't understand why, in this area, anyone would let their pet stay out all night. Hopefully, it will come home, but the chances are unlikely.
This week Russell was to have his open heart surgery. The whole community has been struggling to convince him that he won't be able to come home after only 5 or 6 days in the hospital. He was determined that we would take care of him and drive him daily to his therapy sessions. It was a struggle to get through to him that the community couldn't do that and wouldn't do that. He seems reconciled. His surgery was set for last Tuesday and Eric was taking him in to St. Joseph's in Denver, leaving here at 5 AM. At 3 AM Russell got a call saying an emergency heart surgery had occurred and his surgery would have to be postponed. That's a tough one. It must be difficult enough to get ready for such extreme surgery, but to then have to wait another week is really hard.
Russell has been out and about all week and stated that he feels good; perhaps he shouldn't have the surgery. But he is going through with it.
Russell lives in the little cabin that Robert owns. It is called "Miner's Rest." It is on Eric's land, but has squatter's rights. Robert has rented it to Russell for more than thirty years and never raised the rent. Russell pays $45.00 a month to live there. At one time he was fed up with the commute to Longmont and said he was going to move. He went looking for housing and after that we never heard another thing about him planning to move.
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