AN EARLY THANKSGIVING

Oops!  Second post in a day.  The first post was completed yesterday.  I will mark it up to old timer's disease.  

Every day last week, we had an appointment at each of John's physicians.  Every appointment was a good one with really pleasing results from CAT scans, blood tests, etc.  Dr. Lykens, John's pulmonologist, was glowing as he reviewed the CAT scan with us.  We were floating on cloud nine.

Sunday found us at Megan and Adam's home for an early Thanksgiving.  Megan is our older granddaughter and has presented us with a great granddaughter, Harper.  Harper is riding on her horse right behind Jackson, our other great grandson.  Jackson is the son of our grandson, Zach (right behind the horse.)  Adam is in the chair.  

Jackson is three months older than Harper and they are best buddies.  It is so much fun to watch them together.  We are looking forward to welcoming our third great-grand in January.  Megan is due January third and has begged us to stay.  We just cannot do that.   

While at our Thanksgiving celebration, I noticed that John was not feeling well and was coughing.  After experiencing his respiratory failure in 2012, my warning alarm went off.   That's what happens when we are back in Indiana, it is freezing cold and we sit in physician's offices with tons of germs.  First thing Monday, I called his Dr. Lykens, with a report. Now,  John is now on two antibiotics and steroids as precautionary measures.

Yesterday morning, the alarm clock went off at six o'clock. Leaving John in bed, I stumble out of the bedroom to get ready to leave at seven-thirty in order to arrive at St. Richard's School in Indianapolis where grandchildren, Lucy and Ross attend.   It was Grandparent's Day.  

As we entered, we were given a program that had a drawing. Featured on the program was a Thanksgiving card created by Lucy.  

Here is Lucy with her turkey hat, sitting next to her Thanksgiving card featuring a turkey saying "I love pizza!"  

Yes, Lucy has a great sense of humor.  She loves to tease and tell funny jokes.   





Each grade level performed and it was so much fun to watch Lucy and Ross.  It was impossible to get a photo of Lucy's class performance.  

Luckily, I did get a photo of Ross and his Kindergarten class performing. There is Ross with his beautiful red hair.  

After the performances in the chapel, we went to visit each classroom. 


Ross' class had more songs to perform.   The bottom expression is one of his funny looks he loves to use to make us laugh.  

When school was dismissed, the kids left for a vacation in Florida.   

Oh lucky them!  

Right now, snow is blowing horizontally past our warm, cozy motorhome. God willing, in ten days and we are out of here! 

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your Thanksgiving with family and, or friends.  God bless you and your day.   





  

BLESSINGS!

In my last blog post I wrote about John having a biopsy for prostate cancer.  Dr. Koch said that the results of the tests he ran showed an eighty percent chance of the biopsy confirming the cancer. Tursday afternoon was biopsy day.  

Friday, we left for Kentucky to pick up our Tiffin motorhome!  How could such a short ride turn into such a looooong ride?  Anticipation?

Saturday morning, we pulled into the dealer's lot and was greeted by our new home on wheels.  All the basement doors were open showing a spic and span basement. Ohhhh that storage.   When we walked inside, I said to John "welcome home!" What a blessing!

We love the extra room, but were surprised with the task of making everything fit.  Having slides changes the storage space in some of the cabinets.  We made a few adjustments and gave a bit more away to make everything fit.
  Early Monday  morning we were awakened to the thrump, thrump, thrump of a helicopter.  John said that he thought he had heard the sounds of a crash earlier. Sure enough, at the end of the drive to the dealers lot there was a head-on crash involving a pickup truck and a smaller compact car.  

loading patient into a Med Evac

The young man in the car had just left work after working the "graveyard" shift.  As he left, it was reported, that he told a co-worker that he was exhausted and was going home to bed.  He never made it home.  He fell asleep at the wheel and ran into the truck.  His condition was reported to be extremely critical.

  I called the dealer yesterday and they reported that he is improving - slowly.  Another blessing.  


It took us a total of four long, hard days to move and arrange everything.  In those four days, John totally abused his body and has paid the price since then.  Each day his condition improves.  But we learned a big lesson.  John cannot do the things that he used to do.  

The Colts plate will come later

John's final task was to put the license plate on the Tiffin!  

He was so tired that he could only put the plate on the back of the Tiffin and he left our Indianapolis Colts plate that rides on the front of the motorhome in the place of honor for a later time.    

Driver, take me to Greenwood, IN!  

We rolled out of the dealer's lot Tuesday afternoon.  It was so good to be on the road in our new home.  The ride is like floating in a bubble through the air.  And we can talk to each other in a normal voice.  No shouting over the noise of a gas engine. What a blessing.  

As you can see, Olivia likes riding in her new home. 

Both dogs are a bit miffed though.  In the Winnebago, they rode on the Dashboard.  No more dangerous traveling.  

Oliver says since he is the elder, he should ride on Mom's legs as she knits.  

Occasionally, both ride on my lap and the knitting is put aside.  



Since we have been back in the Indianapolis area, we have rested and awaited the outcome of the biopsy.  Today, we were given the diagnosis of......  NO CANCER! Another blessing.  

On a lighter note, you can see that Oliver's younger sister, Olivia is not

a beggar.  She just sits behind John with her chin on his shoulder and waits to see if he sneaks a treat to her when mom is not looking.

As you can see in this photo, there is still much arranging to be done.  Much of it is fiber that is waiting to be spun.  But this will wait for a few days. We are delivering pounds and pounds of llama fleece to a processing mill in Wisconsin that will wash, card and spin all the fiber into yarn to be sold on the internet.  

From Wisconsin, we will head to South Dakota to establish residency, title our motorhome, and get our South Dakota driver's license.  

We will probably spend Thanksgiving in South Dakota.  For the first time, we will not have any family to share our Thanksgiving dinner.  That is going to be strange.  

Our prayer of thankfulness will be long this year.  From John coming from death's door to his recovery and our full time living in our new motorhome.  What else could we be blessed with!  Absolutely nothing. 

It is time that we share our abundant blessings with others.  

Oh!  by the way, we closed on the sale of our condo Tuesday.  

Until next time....

Abundant blessings to you.... God is so good!