Nov 24th Bob, Goldie Hawn, and 1st clinic.... and check out the new videos

This morning....

            

         Before we left for Emory for the appt. today, I got a text from the person I told you about, Family C.  She has ALL, like me. Bless her heart. I almost want to get back to the hospital sooner so I can help her through this. Well, not almost, but I’ll be back soon.  Please pray for her and her family, this next week is going to be pretty rough. Carolyn, the Wed sitter and good neighbor, said that I may be even more beautiful now. Goodness… I’ll guess I’ll just keep my head shaved; I never liked fixing my hair. Carolyn is so giving, cheerful, intelligent, and encouraging. I wish I could bottle it. 

Next time.... Marilyn or Betty

       I decided that I was going to be Goldie Hawn today since my Marilyn and Betty has not come in yet. I already had this wig that I used for dress up and it is super pretty. I have always wanted to wear this wig out places. I thought that a good place would be another church that Jonathan and I visited and I knew that we were not going to like. Ouch. Jonathan didn’t want me to wear it because what if we did like that church and then the next time I had different hair. I didn’t fight him; it was hard enough just to go somewhere. But, people might as well know that I’m a little strange right off the bat. I decided to wear a wig today, not to cover my head, not to have hair, but because it was fun and I knew that my mom and Aunt Judy would love it. I also wanted Dr. K to see the first actress before the other two…. Of course he didn’t know who Goldie Hawn was, I’m going to talk more about that with him but I gave him a break today. Instead of a big smiley face on my mask, I drew some sexy red lips. One man told Jonathan my hair was beautiful another wanted to know where I got it. The ladies at the counters now know me by the smiley mask and it gave them a laugh. I’m still working on their names….I’m going to be around for a long time, better make friends.

                   I gave blood to the vampires and then we proceeded to wait forever for Dr. K. He was super busy today and he told me the other day “I always run behind, I try not to but I do.” In a Lebanon accent. He’s worth the wait and as long as I get out before traffic that‘s all I care about. Luckily, there was plenty to keep us entertained. Mom was looking hip in her cute outfit and Judy brought some more of those delicious chocolates and a book about dogs… this time in coffee flavor. Now, we had some more people show up just because the stars aligned, I guess. What is funny is how many sides of the family we had together in the waiting room at Emory. My parents are divorced and I’m close to 3 sides of the family. Jonathan has 2 more side, so we have 5 “sides of the family”, no including that I still talk to my “ex step mother” about my siblings and we have a good relationship. I’m one of those too, you know. Nothing like the title step mother till you put an ex in front of it…. That will be a good blog.

                 I’m sure that we were a sight. I’m usually the people watcher but we were being watched today… I mean I had sexy lips on my mask and Goldie Hawn hair. We had my mom, my aunt Judy from my father’s side, Jonathan, me, my aunt Sharon that works at Emory came down to say hi and bring us some formula, and then my sister Anna and her mom Melanie were at Emory for an appointment. Whew! I had an entourage. I could see those ladies behind the desk thinking “do we have a rule about how many people can come back, or fit”. Leave it to me to break a patient room fire code my first time in the clinic. I want to be on.Emory’s board as the patient advocate, I really need to stay out of trouble.

                       For the appointment, it was just the 4 of us and conversations on babies, boots, and blood and who knows what else. At one point, I was trying on my mom’s boots and we were discussing calf sizes. Jonathan was starving was slowing eating Ritz crackers and trying to follow our 3 conversations. We had a great time with Dr. K., I think he is very nice. Jonathan found an article in sports illustrated about a marathon in Greece where they dressed up like Romans, so we gave it to Dr. K since he is running a half marathon on Thursday. He said he doesn’t do anything crazy like a full one, I thought, running is crazy. We mapped out the plan and had a few laughs. I like his nurse too, she is very helpful. Last week, Dr. K told me that he treated Nelly’s brother… who’s Nelly? Just some rap star. Still cool though. I told him that Shaq has CML and it would be cooler if he met him. He said yea.                        Maybe his people should call Shaq’s people. 

On the wall at the Clinic... I like it.

**WHAT ABOUT BOB?** When we got home, Carolyn and Evalyn were having the best time. The sweetest, best, content, happy, pretty, baby she has ever met she says. I called Mr. Frank, our super strong dock party neighbor, and he said that he would cat sit Bob for me for a little while. See Bob is a stuffed bob cat that stays in our house that I have become quite fond of. My fishing buddy Mr. Jim caught him and a fellow kitty in one of Franks traps years ago. They were trying to catch coyotes, and then had to kill the cats because there was no way to get them out of the trap and stay safe. Well, Stan and my Poppa bill decided they were going to send them off to the taxidermist. Bob kept scaring my Granny and told poppa that he had to get out of the house. So… he brought him down here. At first, I didn’t really like bob, he was more of a conversation starter and it was funny how the dogs would look at him sometimes. Picture of bob to come…..

                Then, he started to grow on me starting with naming him. Original, huh, Bob for a Bob cat. When I was teaching I had a hamster named Hammy and a hissing cockroach named Cocky. Hammy was loose in the school for an about 2 months and he was caught about 3 times his former weight.  So Bob had a prime location in the living room and I would put a hat on him sometimes or a necklace for July 4^th. He actually won us the 4^th of July golf cart decoration award because he was in the back, dressed up, and had one paw up as everyone waved and laughed. I had to give the prize to a little girl because she deserved it more. She was going around the tables at the picnic promoting and handing out vote for me coins. Oh, Sarah, you are so cute. 

Bob in his new home.

                    Then we had a baby. And that baby has stuff. Then Chloe needed a crate to use when visitors came over and they didn’t like being licked to death.  So poor Bob, down sized to the middle room hiding by the desk to the back room where he was at least protecting the back door.  So Mr. Frank has a lot of stuffed animals and his house just seems like a place that Bob would be happy and appreciated.  I was right. He has a great spot in the main room right beside the table! I do want him back, but he is much happier where he is now, and I can quite feeling bad about him being banished.  Frank, Evalyn, Jonathan, and I all BALD were discussing how happy Bob is there. The day just got funnier. Mr. Frank is one of the two strongest men, we know. We just thought he was made of steal and had some kind of oil that doesn’t smell bad. Mr. Frank took a step off the porch and I never thought I would see that look on his face. “oh, aw, what did I do that for, oh my feet.” Jonathan and I couldn’t help but burst out laughing. We waved goodbye and saying that we have found his Achilles hell.  Don’t worry Frank, your still the strongest J   I don’t think I realized how many stories there have about the wonderful people I call neighbors.  I have much to learn from them.