Grandma Henke

Oh what a relief!   I found the papers the nurse sent home with me yesterday after the big “C” procedure and found out why my stomach is so gassy and bloated today.    Glad to know I’m not growing a watermelon in there and that this, too, will soon “pass”.    They probably told me that yesterday before releasing me, but I slept through all my instructions.

I now have pictures of the inside of my heart, the inside of my lungs, and the inside of my intestines.  They are my three most costly pieces of art and I don’t even have them hanging on my wall.    Maybe I should  get them insured, although I suspect they aren’t at high risk of being stolen.   The Angiogram print was well over $5,000 and it’s only a black and white copy.   Imagine what the original must be worth!.

I took Miss Chubby Baby Ande with me to town today … holy cow I am getting old!    She is a big little girl and not yet walking or crawling and I forgot the stroller.    I remember the day when that wasn’t such a problem, when I had a one year old and a two year old on each hip.    She weighs about 22 or 23 pounds and I can barely get from the parking lot to the store without breaking into a sweat.     No wonder I was so much thinner when I was young.   I used to lift weighs all day every day and do at least the equivalent of a 10 mile marathon.

I was supposed to make dinner for a couple in our ward this afternoon for a lady who had surgery on her foot and because I had the baby with me it took me a lot longer in town and I knew I wasn’t going to make it home in time to prepare much of anything.   The baby was asleep in the back seat so I really had a dilemma.   I couldn’t stop at a grocery store and get a frozen entre … about all I could do was a drive-through fast food and that didn’t sound very neighborly for someone who had just had surgery.    Then, I remembered Fazolli’s!     How does Chicken Broccoli Penne Bake, fresh garden salad, bread sticks, and cheese cake sound to you?     Well it sounded good to me, too, and they were delighted when it was delivered, so all is well.    The problem is, I didn’t get some for Lynn and I and after riding with that delicious smell in my car for twenty minutes my mouth is watering and my brain is screaming Fazolli’s!    I’ll have to implement tough love on myself because I think I gained three pounds being trapped with it in the car with the windows closed.    It smelled THAT good!

I hadn’t met this lady before … the one who had surgery on her foot … but I was so delighted to because she and I have some fun things in common.  She is from England and it always makes me smile when I hear England English spoken.   I am excited to have made a new friend and eager to visit her again so we can share some of our writing. 

Speaking of writing … I am trying to decide whether or not I should take on the challenge of another NaNoWriMo this November.    Last year I went into it not quite knowing what to expect and it was a thrilling adventure but I developed tendonitis in my wrists so bad it took me several months to recover.    Of course, I was trying to get it done in 3 1/2 weeks because of a trip I had planned .. but still.    Writing a 50.000 word novel in one month means ignoring a whole lot of other things, including sleep.    Several people have asked that I write the story of two of my main characters as a prelude to this book … Maybe I should do that.     But to tell the truth, I don’t know that much about them myself!    I guess I will play a Scarlet O’Hara and not worry about it yet … “fiddle-dee-dee”.