Susan's Pendulum

I wrote this post a few days before Thanksgiving. It was supposed to be a follow up to another post from that week. But it took me a few...

I had over half a gallon of cream yesterday. I suppose I could've been responsible and made butter, but I can't even seem to get th...

On Thursday morning, I got LOTS of questions at Bible class about how Maggie's doing. Y'know, physically she's recuperating gre...

Skimming the Shopper paper tonight, looking for cut-your-own Christmas-tree farms, I noticed a help-wanted ad. There's a factory in our...

then you gotta read this and then this . NO. WAIT. Hold up! Don't read it yet! First, go to the bathroom, so you won't wet your ...

I bought my Camry two and a half years ago. Today I was looking at cars. Some of them were the same make, model, and year as my 97 Camry. ...

When Maggie was a few years younger, and could not stand to have her curly hair brushed, we finally had to cut it short. It was cute, and I...

I hate car shopping. When the doctor said Maggie had a hematoma, I was thinking that word meant "bruise." But there was no black-...

We saw our family doctor this afternoon. Lungs -- The bad part of Maggie's left lung is still not too good. She was given strict instru...

Okay, so this is not properly seasonal. I was jogging this morning, listening to a tape of Mass from Trinity 26 at my father-confessor'...

Edema is better; rash is worse. There is still swelling around the incision for the bypass machine, but I would no longer call it "bad...

The edema is better; the rash is worse. Maggie's temperature has been easily controled. She needs one or two doses of tylenol or advil ...

So far, the fever has been easily manageable. One dose of tylenol or motrin seems to prevent fever for a good 12 hours or more. We gave Mag...

Maggie's fever has been down since midnight; we haven't even given her meds for it since early evening yesterday. I got up three ti...

One night shortly before surgery, we watched Take the Lead , a movie about Pierre Dulaine who teaches ballroom dance in the New York City p...

Should I keep calling these "hospital updates" if we're home now??? The roads coming home weren't very nice. In most plac...

We decided that it would be wise to go check out of Ronald McDonald House. Maggie's doing well. We've given about a dozen doctors ...

Oh, darn it. Now Maggie's got a fever. I figured they'd let her go, even with the one part of the left lung not being A-OK, becaus...

Sooooo, the last one wasn't the last one after. Dr Samyn came in after the echo. Given Maggie's mobility (she wheeled her own whee...

We had a good and restful night. Maggie and I are on our way back from cardiology to the room. We're out tooling around the hospital w...