I’ve had a new patient since yesterday morning. So far, he’s behaved himself pretty well.
Travis had outpatient surgery yesterday to hopefully fix the breathing and sinus infection issues he’s had since he broke his nose 5 years ago. We had to be at the Surgery Center at 6:30 AM, and we were home by a little after 10 AM…so it was pretty quick overall. The surgery itself lasted less than an hour. Dr. McCary said Travis’s septum looked pretty bad, but he said he got it straightened up nicely. Travis and I can tell his nose points differently just from looking at it, so it’s gotta be a lot better than it was! Travis was so funny right before we were about to leave to head home after surgery. He was very concerned about understanding all of his instructions perfectly…like he thought I wasn’t listening or going to follow them when we got home..haha! I kept telling him that I’d take care of everything, but I guess he didn’t trust me :)
Luckily, he doesn’t have packing in his nose (which is supposedly terrible), but he does have stents. He said it feels like he hasn’t blown his nose in centuries. His post-op appointment is tomorrow morning, and he’ll get the stents taken out then. I’m sure that will feel much, much better with a clear nose. So far, the worst part has been using saline nasal spray every hour, but I’m making him do it even though he doesn’t want to. I’m such a mean nurse. He declined my photo-op when I wanted to document him wearing his nasal dressing, so y’all won’t get to see a picture. Let’s just say he’ll be glad to not have to wear that thing hopefully after tomorrow!
Mom had her 4th chemo treatment on Monday, and other than feeling pretty “blah” yesterday and today (which is normal for day 3-4), she’s doing pretty good so far. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go down there this week like I’ve done in the past since I had my own patient here in town, but it sounds like she’s surviving without me. Next 4 treatments will be a different chemo drug, Taxotere. Hopefully that one will have less side effects. No sense in worrying about that drug before we get through next week…hopefully with no fever and hospital stay this time!! :)
This Saturday I’m running in the Liz Hurley Ribbon Run. I ran 3 miles on Monday and yesterday, and it wasn’t too terrible, so I think I can do the 5K without walking. My goal is to finish in 27:00 or under…pretty slow compared to my high school PR (21:00), but oh well. What can I say? I’m getting old and slow! I’ll let you know how it goes in my next blog post…
Last weekend was a 4 day weekend for both of us. It was Travis’s Friday off, and he had Monday off for Columbus Day (gotta love government perks!). We spent most of it working outside in our yard. Friday, we spent several hours pulling up everything in our front flower beds. If you remember from prior pictures, it wasn’t much. The few shrubs we had were very pitiful. However, they did NOT have pitiful roots. It was near impossible to pull some of them up, so we ended up cutting them as far down as we could. Saturday, we spent most of the morning and afternoon helping Jessica and Collier move into their new house (which is very cute!). I can’t wait to see it once they get everything set up! Monday morning, Travis and our neighbor, Rob, worked on trimming the bushes in between our houses. They had gotten very tall and out of control. They worked for several hours, but there is still a lot to go. What they did get done looks much better though! Monday afternoon was dedicated to pulling weeds and loosening up the ground in our flower beds. It was so compacted that it was literally hard as rock. Poor Travis…he got the rough end of the deal….swinging the pick axe all afternoon after working so hard that morning. By the end of the day, he was tired and sore all over. Big thanks to Cheryl for giving up your afternoon to help us…we really appreciate it! Although our flower beds are bare now, they actually look better than they did with the old shrubs in them. Next up is mixing in some soil conditioner, lining the beds with stone, and then we’ll be ready to plant!
Before
Before
After
After
Ready for planting!
Those bushes were out of control!!
Much better!
Can’t post in my blog without adding some pictures of the kittens! They are growing bigger every day! If they’re not sleeping, they’re chasing each other, wrestling, or eating. Not a bad life…
Can you find Felix in all of that junk? :)
Gabby likes to nap in her bed occasionally…
Felix prefers this chair
One of these days, I’ll get the chair recovered…
Our other big news of the week is that Travis’s car died on Monday. It’s a 95 Honda Accord with at least 220,000 miles on it, so it’s just time to give up on it. The clutch is what quit working, and it would be pretty expensive to replace, so we’re just going to get a new car instead. We’re looking at family sedans similar in size to my car like the Fusion, Accord, Altima, Camry, etc. We’re thinking about getting something that is a couple of years old with low mileage. Hopefully we can get a good deal and find something in the next week or so! Feel free to shout out car buying tips if you have them b/c neither of us have ever done this before….kinda nervous about it…
Time to get back to taking care of my patient! Hope you’re enjoying your week so far :)
