We have had a slight turmoil here now all OK as Jerry underwent medical tests. The cold Jerry had on our trip became near pneumonia and so he reluctantly agreed to go to the doctor in North Carolina. While he got antibiotics and recovered readily, they detected a spot on his lung when they took xrays. After we returned home, he finally took the CD to our primary care physician and a very quick short ride on Mr. Toads wild wagon ensued over the past week, culminating with a PET Scan to satisfy our MD and the pulmonary specialist at Mayo Clinic and to rule out malignancy. It turns out to be just a spot but they will monitor it for two years to be sure it does not change, now that they have a baseline. While I was feeling positive, Jerry who enjoys excellent health was quite concerned, one can say scared as to what might be. So we will continue to give big heeping Thanks tomorrow. Relief came Monday with the results of the PET and a short meeting with the Pulmonary MD. We are blessed to live here and have Mayo Clinic for our health care, they do not mess around and proceed full speed ahead...despite Medicare and Insurance restrictions. We well know no one is promised tomorrow, so we try to live in the present moment by moment.
As we are at Thanksgiving Eve, I share thoughts from one of my favorite girlhood authors; long before Little House on the Prarie went to TV, generations of us girls read and enjoyed Laura Ingalls Wilder. Here she writes about 1922.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my bloggy pals in this country and abroad!
Happy Thanksgiving Pat ... during the years my mother lived in assisted living and in memory care I spent each Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas with her - at least part of the day and for the noon meal. Then it was back home to feed our gang ... memories are precious looking back. So glad the health scare turned out to be just that, a scare and nothing more ....
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving right back at you and may Jerry stay healthy!
ReplyDeleteI took the liberty of forwarding your email as the Wilder attachment was a much better expression of my feelings than I could put into words. Perhaps the nursing home thing will give some others an idea to share a portion of their holiday with someone who is less fortunate. Tom
ReplyDeletePS I should have added that today we live in Laura Ingalls Wilder area--I say area, because from WI, across southern MN, and even northern Iowa one can find memorials, museums and the like to her and her family. I do believe the southern MN prarie was the family homestead, but someday when I have a minute I may do further research on that.
ReplyDeleteAwesome idea at the nursing home, and your participation. Hopefully MIL will be
ReplyDeletein good mood and not cast a pall on the festivities. Enjoyed the Wilder comments, the little Robert Burns Scottish poem and comments of R.L.Stevenson. Printed the email for Carol and to file. Some of that may appear as a
thought for the day on my FB page.
Pat, glad that Jerry is OK and can imagine you are both so thankful for the good report before Thanksgiving. One thing that's lacking where we live now is good medical care, another reason we are planning a move. We also spent Thanksgiving with mom (mine) and we cooked and delivered dinner to her at her home in NJ. It was a unique experience to do it this way, but much easier than trying to work in her kitchen to do everything. We only did the side dishes there. Hope your MIL enjoyed her day and the visit. The price of dinner was certainly well below going out for the day.
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