Thank You For The Prayers

Thank you for the all the prayers for my Dad. He is getting transported from Billings to Butte today. He will be returning to the Copper Ridge nursing home to recover. He is not happy about having to go to the nursing home, but is very happy to be getting back to Butte. Hopefully he will get his strength up and will get to go home.

Yesterday I had to do some doctoring of my own, to get my blood pressure meds renewed. I am going to be switching one of my meds. The one I was on (Valsartan) I feel was possibly causing my back and joints (knees and hips) to hurt (or at least that is one of the side effects of it). I have been on it for 10 years, but have been having a nagging pain in my back for quite a while. Stretching has not really helped. I had a X-ray in March before I went to Butte, it did not really show any structural issues.

I did like the new Doctor, he listened to what I was telling him and we had good discussions. I have to back up in a month to see him and see how things are progressing.

So we will see if that helps. So now I am going to be on Kapspargo Sprinkle. I think that is kind of a funny name, it sounds like some you would put on an ice cream cone. Let me see? I will have some peanuts and Kapspargo Sprinkles please on my cone.

The drive up to St George was uneventful (no construction), when we went up Tuesday to play golf there was oiling of the road occurring, so traffic was pretty backed up.

I will be honest, I was a little choked up as I listened to “Full Ride” on the radio on the drive up and that brought back a lot of Jennifer memories and flashbacks to her laughing at things said on that program over the years. She really like that program. It was the first time in a long time that I listened to it.

St George was very busy, that town’s infrastructure has not kept up with or was designed for the amount of growth that has occurred up there. Since I was up there I scheduled to have the tires on my car rotated and then I made a trip to Costco for gas and a couple of items. That place was crazy busy, it was a combat type shopping day.

I came home and my friend Kevin stopped by. We are going to play together in a golf tournament that a friend of his is having in October so we had to complete the entry form and submit our money. Then I grabbed a quick bite and went up to Pickleball round robin. It was pretty warm so turnout was low we only had 8 hardy souls that showed up.

This morning I went and played pickleball and tonight I am going with my friend Randy to the Eureka Casino to attend a free Q&A session with former Notre Dame Heisman Trophy winner and former Oakland Raider Tim Brown. Randy is a big Raiders fan, even though he is from Bronco country (Denver).

This afternoon I did some housework and laundry and I got choked up/shaken when I was changing the sheets on my bed. I had a flashback to Jennifers last moments and it took me a little while to get over that, but I got it done. I don’t know why that occurred I have done that activity multiple times with no issues, but today it just really hit me, I hope that does not happen every time I do that because it was not fun. A little PTSD I guess.

Well enough therapy for today.