Sorry I'm so far behind on updating on my doctor visits. After waiting for the vascular surgeon to call me for two days and my calling him and leaving messages for those two days, his nurse finally called me back late yesterday afternoon. I guess what she told me was good news. I don't have blockage in my left leg. The pain I'm suffering there must be from arthritis. (Is it spelled right, Brother Joe? He sent me an email and told me I should have spell check on for my last update!) I asked what the February procedure that the surgeon did was because he told Chris it was a stent and told Rose and me it was a balloon. The nurse said they were both the same thing. Rose and I thought they were different procdedures and that the doctor had told us they were different procedures. The nurse told me I should continue taking the blood thinner because of the blockage in my right leg.

When I had called for this appointment, the nurse had asked if I wanted an office visit or surgery appointment. The doctor didn't even know my left leg was bothering me. I asked the nurse what he was going to operate on. She said on my right leg and assumed the pain was so severe that I was ready for surgery. Surgery on my right leg will entail a two month recovery period and is not nearly that severe. At the time I made the appointment, no one asked me how severe the pain is. I'm going to discus this with my primary care doctor when I see her next time. Meanwhile, I hobble around and take pain pills and tried some Tylenol for arthritis this morning to see if that will let me stay awake. Pain pills make me sleep a lot.

So much for my troubles. Thursday evening Chris, Shelly and I had dinner at the Olive Garden. Chris is on a raw foods diet and the Olive Garden has an all-you-can eat-salad dinner that he wanted to take advantage of. They were entertaining and quite talkative about their trip out west. I nagged them about updating the blog and told them how if you wait too long you forget things you wanted to put in - amusing happenings among other things.

Last night Goldman and I went to the Casino and had dinner and played until very late. He was afraid he would be in trouble with Aunt Rose for our late evening, and when I tried to reassure him that it would be okay, he responded "You may noy be afraid of her but I am!"

Pete called this morning with his weekly call. Kelly and the boys were there and he and Janet were waiting for them to get up and cook breakfast. It was going to be warmer there than it's going to be here and if Janet felt up to it, they were going to a wedding. It was going to be an outdoor occasion. Hope you can make it, Janet.