Friday

This morning's temps were in the high 50's and eventually made it to 78 with bright sunshine and blue skies. After our quiet time and lite breakfast we were heading back to the doctor's in Sparta for a check of my blood viscosity because of the heparin and cumadin I'm taking. Well I flunked the test so I must increase the cumadin as well as keeping taking these heparin shots in the belly until I head back to the doctor once again on Monday. At least the pain and swelling has been reduced to a manageable level with only Tylenol once a day and that's usually just before bed. I have increased my level of activity to at least incorporate a slow walk to the top of the mountain with many stops in between.

We stopped and visited with our senior lady friend Helen and her cat Teddy Roosevelt, she is close to 90 and lives alone. We next stopped and visited with our senior friend Norman who is such a funny guy from West Virginia and is at the ripe age of 83 and has such a great attitude. We really enjoy talking with him and his cat Thomas who thinks he's a dog. We next saw Mike and Nancy who were setting out mums and both of them have had such medical problems this past year and is probably the reason for listing their beautiful cabin with a realtor. She also suffered from a blood clot and is on cumadin for life.

We had a nice pleasant walk and it was good to visit with so many and I didn't feel any adverse effects from the outing, actually it felt good especially knowing others have beat this condition and survived to share their experience. We spent the afternoon reading and sunning on the side deck. We planned to head to the county fair grounds as our local church was sponsoring Christian recording artist Shawn McDonald live in concert. We saw and visited with several of our friends and church members before we left the concert about 9 and headed home. It was a fun evening and so good to see all we hadn't seen in over a month. LATER