Oregon Living 2025 – Blog #39 – Medical Week for Me and Family Visits!

 

 

Sunday, October 5^th., 2025……  The weather is definitely turning for the season. There is now a little nip in the air and the nights are rather chilly. Just class for us tonight. So, we went to meet up with Jim and Beverly. We partnered them up with Club angels and we started. The problem was twofold. They would be playing catchup with the class plus tonight our regular caller isn’t here. Naomi is a caller trying to learn to teach and this was her first class. She is hard to understand and she put us in a circle and we did calls that made us switch partners, so that didn’t help. She also jumped into the five new calls that Shaun had given her to teach. That didn’t help!  So, the night was rough – for all of us!  We spoke with Jim and Beverly before they left and convinced them to give it another try next week when Shaun will be back. We skipped pizza and came home to relax and watched tv until bedtime.   

Monday, October 6^th., 2025…… I thought I was going to be taking our friend Grace to the airport this morning but she had a ride. So, I was able to make it to my optometrist appointment with no problems. After explaining my situation last week, they wanted to retest my prescription. Turns out this one was different!  So, we will try this again. The new glasses will be in in a few weeks.  

Tuesday, October 7^th., 2025…… Today was a 10:20am zoom call from my doctor’s nutritionist. It went well. Sally popped on the line and asked if she was needed for anything. Nope, but I did have her take a refill for a prescription and then we continued on the call. Once that was done, the only thing I had to do was the workshop.  Cathye was out with the Truckster. She wants to pull the plants out from the raised bed for the winter and was working on that when I left. When I got to the class, we found we were one person short. So, I tried calling Cathye who was done working and came down to help us fill our square. Thanks hon! When we got back home, we continued working outside and got a few areas cleaned up. We think the rains are going to hold up this week so we are planning on mowing tomorrow.    

Wednesday, October 8^th., 2025…… No rain but the clouds are out and it’s not helping dry the dew on the grass. We’ll wait until 1:00 or so to mow. I had to leave for my dental consult in Corvallis anyway. I have problems with my upper left rear molar. It’s been giving me trouble for some time now. This is the one I had a root canal done on over 35 years ago. I think the tooth has come loose a bit and the endodontist today took scans and confirmed the bone loss and the loose tooth and the slight infection. The plan now will be to remove it. I will do that through my regular dentist and that will have to be scheduled in the near future. So we wait some more! I got back around 12:30 and went out and topped off all the mowers with gas. Penny came over and we got started.  I had mine going well until I went out to mow under the grapevines. I picked up a piece of rope that was on the ground where Skylar left it when he cut back the vines a few weeks ago. I stopped the mower and looked under it. I found the rope and spent some time getting it cut loose. But – I also found some blueberry cage netting that had been in there for some time. I decided to take it to the shop and put it up on blocks so I could reach everything. That took forever to clean out and I still didn’t get it all. We will soon need to take all of the mowers in to the shop for service and sharpening anyway and they will get the rest then. So, while I was working, Penny and Cathye finished up my side of the yard.  We cleaned up and were done for the day.    

Thursday, October 9^th., 2025…… Today is the one day with no appointments! We slept in and then walked and fed the dogs. We left for the gym and then went to Kristi’s for breakfast. No errands to run so we were in for the day.  

Friday, October 10^th., 2025…… Cathye has the kids coming down today. But I have another virtual with my doctor at 1:10pm. The kids got here and I hung around my room waiting for the call. I think this one is for a follow-up from my mri. Well that hasn’t happened yet so I got no call. Ok by me! The kids stayed and ate lunch with us and we visited and played with the littles. Boy, they are growing fast. It was fun but they were here for 4-5 hours and I was beat when they finally left. 

But oh yeah, Cathye got a call that her niece Heather, and Charley were coming down from Seattle and wanted to spend the weekend and visit with her dad, who had gall bladder surgery. She said they didn’t want to stay there and could they stay with us? Sure. So, they finished out the evening with us. Turns out her dad was feeling well enough to go on his already scheduled cruise and had already left for that!  But they would go over tomorrow and visit with Justin anyway and so would be staying here until Sunday.    

Saturday, October 11^th., 2025…… The girls went out to breakfast at Kristi's this morning, then went shopping around Main St.  Today, Penny was heading to the airport for a trip with her girlfriends. They will meet up in Las Vegas and then she will go back to SoCal for the rest of the week. I went over and picked her up and we headed down to the airport in Eugene. When I got back, we had the afternoon off because Heather and Charley were in Sweet Home for the day. Later, we left to go to a dance in Corvallis. We picked up Cheryl from the senior center parking lot and she went over with us.  It was a fun night and we had a good time. Dropped Cheryl off and we were home and in bed by 11:00pm.  Charley stayed there and Heather came home and had the guest bed to herself tonight!