Today was a dilating day. I woke up this morning at 550am, so early! Even though I had only gone to sleep about midnight, I was wide awake so I picked up my book and started to read. It was sunny out and I didn't need to turn on a light. Now I have to explain that we don't have any curtains up in the windows of our house, just shears on the windows that face the street. So when the sun comes up, it will come right in the window. Actually, our bedroom windows face south and west so the rising sun doesn't shine in my window but the light will be seen from the window. So maybe that is why I wake up so early sometimes. So I was awake and I didn't have to get up and get ready until 7 so I decided to read. I'm reading False Memories by Dean Koontz, at least that is what I think the title is. It is really good and Dean Koontz is my 2nd favorite author. In fact I had this idea about two years ago to write to him and ask him for an autographed picture for my mom for Mother's Day and he sent me a personalized autographed book for her instead. He is a really great and caring man!
So I read until the alarm went off and hubby got up. I jumped in the shower ahead of him, got dressed and went down to feed the beasties. Hubby came down soon and we left for his school. He was pretty tense as his boss went off on vacation and didn't approve, as of last week, the $200 reimbursement that we were owed from hubby doing Graduation. So if his boss didn't approve it today, we would have to take out a $200 payday loan to get through the week until next Tuesday. So I dropped hubby off at work and went back home.
I got home and ate some breakfast then Rose, the teenager from next door, came over at 9 so we could walk the dogs. I decided we should walk around the block instead of down to the park and it worked out really well. I took a shorter street to see how long that would be to walk and it was only 20 minutes so Wednesday, we will walk all the way around the block and that should be 30 minutes, which is good. But today we only walked for 20 minutes and I asked her if she wanted to get any more beads but she said she was good.
Then I had some time to kill, so I kept reading my book. But soon it was 1005 and my eye appointment was at 1030 so I had to leave. It only takes 15 minutes to get to the eye doctor so I was early. I didn't have to wait long before they called me back. The technician measured my eyes, then did all these tests and told me my pupilairy distance is 62, which you have to know to order glasses online. I found out that the readers I am using are not strong enough. I am using 1.75 readers and the tests show 2.25 readers would be the best. Also I do have a little problem seeing at night driving so I have a slight prescription for that.
Then they dilated my eyes. When they do that, they send you back out into the waiting room. There I got into a discussion, or rather a one sided conversation, with a man with dementia. His wife told him to stay in the waiting room while she went back and we talked. He told me lots of stories from his past. It was interesting and a little confusing and I didn't quite understand until she came back and told me he had dementia. She and I talked a little and then I got called back to see Dr Dewey. Because I have diabetes, I have to get my eyes checked every year. Full workup. So we talked and I told him that my dry eye problem had gone away for the most part. My A1c was down to 6.6 and I had lost some weight. My blood sugars we around normal, around 120. Everything else ;looked normal. I was good to go for another year.
Now hubby has decided that he is not going to go back to Dr Dewey again because Dr Dewey refused to give him his pupilairy distance (which is also 62) and he was insisting that hubby go get his eyeglasses from this particular company, saying they did the best glasses but hubby wanted to get glasses online from a company that came recommended from several of his friends. We did get hubby's script, he got his pupilairy distance from the technician and we ordered a pair of prescription sunglasses from this online company. They are great and we will be ordering his reading and computer glasses from them too soon.
After I got done with Dr Dewey I drove back to hubby's school to pick him up. We then went and got a $200 payday loan and got some lunch on our way to his doctor's appointment. Today was the day they were cutting the skin cancer off and sending it in for biopsy. The physician's assistant (PA) was personable and put us at ease. When she took the biopsy she used an 8mm cookie cutter after numbing him up and cut the whole thing off. Then she gave him 5 stitches to put him back together. He was relaxed and still the whole time. I was on the opposite side of him so I didn't look.
Hubby was in a much better mood afterwards. The stress of seeing this thing on him growing and raising and crusting up was getting to him. He was much happier. We still have to wait for the biopsy report to come back and tell us what kind of skin cancer it was and they may have to excise more of the area around it but for right now, it's gone.
We drove home, stopping at Walgreens to pick up prescriptions. Then he went and laid down while I fed the animals. I ate some of my leftovers for dinner but could only eat a couple of bites. When he woke up, it was around 5 and we decided to take the overdue library books back, pay off our fine and check out a couple of other books. Our library is undergoing some renovations so it was interesting to see the construction. Things will be a little hectic for the next several months there. I found a couple of books to check out and hubby found a bunch of graphic novels to read.
Then we went to the grocery store to pick up a few more odds and ends we needed and we went home. He went into his office and I came to my craft room. Later in the evening, when the sun was going down and we were in shadows but it was still light out, we went out and sat in the swing out front. We stayed out there until it got dark, talking, then he got his iPad and we watched an episode of Apprentice UK Series 10 Episode 1, which was on YouTube. We sat cuddled together in the swing, with his arm around me and my legs over his legs. It was very romantic and I see us spending lots of time sitting in that swing over the summer. And maybe even during the winter on all the nice days we have. Hubby felt the same way and just came by and hugged me, saying that that was really nice. He can see us living out there.
Tomorrow I will have to drop hubby off at work and go to therapy. Then I have a doctor's appointment with Dr Sena, my internest, to check on my diabetes. I have to tell her that while I walk, a couple of my toes go numb on my left foot. The feeling comes back after I get home and sit down for awhile but it feels weird and I think it may be associated with my diabetes. Just another thing to get checked out.
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