Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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".

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