The Dock Doctor

I pulled into the clinic this morning to see my doctor and it was a first!  He was waiting to see me!  We went outside, caught up on life, and then he checked out my lump.  It turns out that there's really nothing wrong with me.  I just happen to have a larger bone on the top of my clavicle.  No worries!  Yay!

The best part of the day was when I thanked him for seeing me at Lakeville rather than having me drive up to Bloomington.  He said he was getting ready to retire and is definitely thinking about going part-time next year.  He and his wife have a cabin up north.  She thought he could become a "dock doctor",  seeing people at their docks to go over their health concerns and then being paid by barter.  Interesting concept.  If he leaves, I'm really going to miss him.  

"Run for the Unreached" Lunch

Heidi, Julie, Micah and I did North Central's "Run for the Unreached" the first weekend of May socially distanced with the plan to meet up for lunch sometime later wearing our t-shirts to celebrate completing it.

Today was the day!  Here we are at Buffalo Tap in Savage:

Micah, me, Julie and Heidi

 

The Stories You Can't Make Up!

The current fifth grade plan in Sam's building this year is for Barb to teach on-line classes and Sam and Sarah will teach in the classroom, having half of their classes on Monday and Tuesday and the second half of their classes on Thursday and Friday.

Sam called Sarah yesterday to ask her a couple of questions, but the one she asked him was a doozy!

Sarah has been teaching for five or six years.  For all of those years, her students have sat at tables.  She asked Sam, "What's a desk look like?  I mean, like what's it's size?" 

Really?

An Update on the Boss' Hub

This was so NOT the text I expected to get from my boss regarding her husband!  I don't know why I'm surprised.  I asked you to pray.

"They were able to control the heart arrhythmia with a lidocaine.  The cardiologist told the hospital doctor to use it.  The hospital doctor's reaction was that he hadn't used this medication in years, but he started Duane on it so his heart has been stable.  Since his heart was stable and oxygen levels were good, yesterday they tried to ween him off the ventilator by having him initiate the breaths.  That went so well that (Friday) afternoon they took him off the ventilator.  He is breathing on his own with supplemental oxygen.  He's alert off and on and answers simple questions with "yes, no, okay, etc."  It sounds like they will move him out of ICU (Sunday).  I have been amazed!"  

Thank you!

The Elusive "E"

Earlier this summer, Micah and I were over at our friend Jana's house dropping off some of Micah's business cards for her bakery, "Uniquely ME".  Jana was looking at her card and said, "You know, you should marry a man with a last name that starts with the letter "E".  That way your bakery would have your initials in it - "Micah (M) + Last Name that Starts with "E" (E) = ME".  

We laughed about how Micah could go through the student directory at North Central this year and begin checking out the guys who's last names started with the letter "E".  

Then we decided, it really wouldn't have to be a last name.  It could be a first names that helped make up the "M-E".  So she should be going through the student directory looking for guys who's first and/or last names started with the letter "E", all for the sake of her bakery name.

After spending a summer teasing Micah, she told us this morning that she had gotten an e-mail from one of her profs last night saying that the students in her class had been put in to groups of two.  Sadly, we're pretty sure that prof assumed that Micah was a "he" and not a "she" as Micah determined she was in the only mixed gender pair, with E-R-I-K.  

Yup, they would be "M" and "E"!  

The Doctor's Report

When my doctor finally stopped laughing about the alien that showed up on his screen Thursday afternoon, we got down to business.  My cholesterol is excellent.  My SEDrate for my PMR is normal.  If everything goes according to plan, I should take my last prednisone pill on Election Day.  However, my potassium is low and I have a lump just above my collar bone that my boss noticed on Wednesday at work.  

I love my doctor!  He said that he would be at the Lakeville Clinic on Wednesday, less than a mile from my house.  Would I be willing to drop by and have him run out to the parking lot and check out that lump?  No brainer.  Of course!  We're setting the time on Tuesday.

He's pretty sure the lump is nothing, quite possibly the result of my costochondritis, but he wants to make sure.  

We also talked about me returning to work, specifically at Sand Creek where bilateral face masks are not required.  He said it was up to me.  I might be fine.  I might not.  I needed to make the decision.

From his standpoint, I am extremely healthy for someone "my age".  However, Covid isn't following any set pattern.  He encouraged me to be safe, not sorry.

After a long talk with Sam, who would rather have me stay home and paint the house, we decided on "no masks, no work".  I sent an e-mail off to my boss who has yet to respond.  My guess is, I'll be painting. 

Sold!

Micah had baked more cupcakes for Aria's garage sale this morning.  After she frosted them, we went to put them in her car so she could drive them over to the sale.  

I had just opened her back door, when our neighbor to the south called out, "What are those?"

"Cupcakes."

"What are they for?"

"Sale."

Then came the details about Aria's cancer and the garage sale to help cover her medical expenses.

They bought a dozen cupcakes - for more than the asking price!