Thursday, April 29, 2010

What I Am Reading


Dear Lucy,

I am in the middle of reading "I'm Off Then" a title that fits my mental status these past many months. Here is a blurb about it from Amazon.com:


Overweight, overworked, and disenchanted, Kerkeling was an unlikely candidate to
make the arduous pilgrimage across the Pyrenees to the Spanish shrine of St.
James, a 1,200-year-old journey undertaken by nearly 100,000 people every year.
But he decided to get off the couch and do it anyway. Lonely and searching for
meaning along the way, he began the journal that turned into this utterly frank,
engaging book. Filled with unforgettable characters, historic landscapes, and
Kerkeling's self-deprecating humor, I'm Off Then is an inspiring travelogue, a
publishing phenomenon, and a spiritual journey unlike any other.

This pilgrimage has become popular since Shirley McClain did it and wrote a book about it. Of course, McClain gets a little airy-fairy about her beliefs in the book but the travel part of it is worth the read.


I myself would love to to part of the trek someday and have checked a short version on frescotours.com.

Maybe one day...


--Kathy

Suzie

Dear Lucy,
Suzie was kept at the hospital overnight even though the stone had not moved. She stayed for pain control.
Tuesday evening, they finally released her on percoset. They said her kidney was swollen from all the probing they had done trying to get the tube in for the laser.
In two weeks she goes back to surgery to try again. Oh boy!

--Kathy

Monday, April 26, 2010

Suzie

Dear Lucy,
I am at the ER at St. Joseph hospital, not with Dad as is usual, but with Suzie.
Seems she has grown the Mt Rushmoor of kidney stones. She went in for laproscopic surgery this morning to have it removed but they could not get to it.
They sent her home and set her up for another operation in two weeks. Well, I guess all that poking around this morning made the kidney stone (she named it Harvey) angry, and it started moving.
What pain! A hundred times worse than labor she said and came on instantly. She is on her 4th shot of morphine now...lucky bum. They won't even give me a rum and coke.
Life is so unfair!

--Kathy

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Cab-in Fever


Dear Lucy,


Took a ride in the "crash cab" Tuesday. Tried the "red light challenge" and failed.


Seems I made a left turn in front of a car that was speeding to get through the light before it changed from yellow to red.


Bummer. No one was hurt thank God.




--Kathy

Monday, April 12, 2010

Me N Katie








Dear Lucy
Finally, a nice day in the park and got a picture of me and Katie together.
Aint' she cute?

--Kathy