November 12, 2010 Friday Morning

Woke up yesterday and after feeding the dogs and getting Tony off to work I went grocery shopping and then to ARCW to pick up my monthly food. I did get a call from the nurse yesterday after I returned home telling me she spoke with the doctor regarding my concerns about the antibiotic and that the doctor still thinks it is the best course of action and to try it for a week before giving up. I accepted that. The doctor thinks I was not on the antibiotic long enough the last time for it to work the way it was suppose to work. I then asked for the results from my blood and urine test on Monday and she told me she did have the results but the doctor, not her, would have to give them to me. I told her she was scaring me with that statement and that I can take any news good or bad. I was most interested in my PSA levels because my dad has prostate cancer. She said she would have the doctor call me as soon as possible with the results. The next ten minutes were very long. The nurse called me back and said she talked with the doctor and he said it was alright to tell me the tests came back OK, within the regular limits, and that I did not have to worry. I was happy to hear this news. So I guess I will have to give this antibiotic a chance to work before going any further. I am a little mad that I had to have a CT scan for all this when if the doctor / specialist would have seen me first, I would not have this expense coming my way. I am sure it will not be cheap and since I have a $1500 health insurance deductible I am sure it will cost that much or more. Where the money will come from is a good question. Spent the afternoon taking a nap with the dogs while I listened to music. Tony got home around 5:00 PM. He has been home early lately because his business is very slow. We need a good snow storm and some accidents unfortunately to get his business back on track. That or he needs to sell some of the cars he has for sale. Not much money has been coming in on his end of things lately which scares me. I can not pay all the monthly bills on what I get from social security each month. Made boneless ribs, mashed potato and corn with the salad for dinner. We spent the night watching TV and went to bed around 10:30 PM. Had a hard time getting Stella into the house because there must be some animal under our side porch and she is bound and determined to get it. I looked with a flash light before going to bed and could not see anything. Stella had this on her mind all night and wanted to go out several times during the night. This led to a very bad night of sleeping last night.

Got up this morning at 5:30 AM because Stella once again wanted to go outside and sniff under the porch. I still can not see what she is trying to get at. Tony left for work shortly after 7 AM and I went back to bed for about an hour. Got up and showered and now I am ready to go pick Tony up in a little while to have lunch with the guys. I am happy it is Friday. Not only because of our weekly lunch, but because that means Tony will be home for the weekend and I will not be alone all day like I am during the week. It is suppose to be a rainy cold weekend here in Milwaukee and we have no plans, so I am sure we will spend the weekend watching movies or TV and just having a very relaxing weekend. I suggested last night that we have a snuggle party with the dogs tonight. I call it a snuggle party when I put pillows and blankets on the floor around the front of the couch and we all lay on the floor with the dogs at our sides and feet. I think that is the way I would want to die when that time comes. It is getting cold outside and rained this morning. It is cloudy which makes my mind not want to start. I know it is the Atripla which makes cloudy days harder to get through then a sunny day. Thankfully since we have no plans this weekend there will be no reason to get my mind going accept to make it through the day taking care of the dogs and Tony. I still laugh when I do a spell check before posting, I am so bad at spelling. You would all laugh at my spelling if there was no spell check.