HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Hope everyone has/had a nice Thanksgiving. Dave is going to smoke the 11lb turkey we got in the BBQ this afternoon. I'm making Brussel Sprouts with Pancetta and Balsamic Vinegar, never tried it before but looks really easy to do. We will also have a salad, stuffing, red potatoes, and Dave is baking a Pumpkin Apple Pie. All of it sounds like good diet food, but who cares.

Anyway since I last updated the blog I have had my knee surgery and a colonoscopy, Dave had some cysts removed from his back and neck. It seems like either both of us or at least one of us have been to the doctors every week. Next 2 weeks are no exception either. On 12/1 I see the knee doctor again, 12/3 Dave has his colonoscopy and on 12/7 Dave has his stitches removed. We live here on the 10th so the rest of December we hopefully will be doctor free.

Dave and I went back to walking after a week of letting my knee heal, I'm back to riding the bike but am waiting until I see the doctor again before I get back to jogging on the treadmill again or using the resistance on the Elliptical.

We went and saw The Blind Side yesterday, very good movie.

That's about all that is new with us, been doing the garage sales but haven't had a lot of good luck on buys, I think we might be getting burnt out on things we need for the house. Dave finished with the table and chairs, from garage sales, and now have them out in the front yard. Will post pictures of it later. My new treadmill finally showed up and it's broken already, I should say we received it broken, so Joaquin, the repair guy, ordered the new part for it, maybe it will get fixed next week. The treadmill still works for walking or jogging it just can't elevate at all.

Boy, I'm behind in posting anything/new addition

I'll start out with our New Addition to the Family, we have purchased a Jeep. They say you can't live here in Arizona without a jeep or some kind of off road vehicle. So many off roads to drive and you don't want to do it in your primary car, although, we have seen some people do it now that we can drive on the dirt and rock roads. It's a 1991 Jeep Wrangler with 137K miles on it, it's in really good shape and we can tow it with 4 wheels down on the ground. The paint was good, notice the word "was", the seats and interior are great, the best part is the price $4,700. We had planned on buying a 1981 Jeep from Mac, David Jr. and friends but after agreeing to buying it we found out we couldn't tow it with 4 wheels down, we were going to have to buy a tow dolly which we didn't want to do. Thank you guys so much for letting us back out of the deal. Although the 81 jeep was only 2K we were going to have to put another few K into it to make it really drivable so the 1991 worked out well for us. Yea, 2 vehicles again.

The paint is still good except we have been doing some off roading, climbing rocks, dirt roads ect and we now have what they call "Arizona Pin stripping"

I was hoping to have my knee surgery done by now, but no such luck. Last Monday, 11/2, I went to the surgeon's office and set up the surgery again for 11/5. I then went by the doctors office to get a note that said it was OK to have the surgery. The receptionist said she will send a note to the doctor and let me know.

The doctor called me Tuesday morning and said she wanted me to take a stress test before she would write the note. I went in Wednesday morning and did the treadmill/Xray 1 1/2 hour test, with and without Dye. Wednesday afternoon Dave and I got together with the Doctor and she told us the stress test was great, no problems with the heart or valves. I then mentioned about the new medicine that the surgeon had put me on since my kidneys had no blockage, and she didn't know a thing about it. She didn't know that I didn't have the stint put in until I told her. I had even called the doctors office the Friday after the procedure to tell the doctor about the new medicine but she was out until Tuesday and her assistant said she would run it by the doctor when she got back, if there were any problems they would call me. Since no call I figured everything was OK, no, the doctor wouldn't let me have surgery while being on the new medicine. No one had told her I had called and she hadn't seen the DVD taken of my kidney or seen the surgery report. I left my copy of the DVD for her to look at. We ended up going by the knee surgeons office and cancelled the surgery and they then said they would not reschedule again until they had a note from my doctor. Can't blame them, I had cancelled the surgery 3 times already.

Anyway, I'm on new blood pressure medicine and it has really controlled it, I'm having readings of 125/70 which is great. Tomorrow Dave and I see the doctor again and hopefully she will give me the OK to have the surgery next Monday or Thursday. Although, this coming up Monday Dave and I have consultations with the colonoscopy doctor, going to have that done next, but of course not at the same time.

That's about all that is new with us, been going to garage sales and estate sales and purchased some good cheap things, will post pictures soon. Did post new pictures of Madison the other day, remember to go under "our pictures".