What a miserable 4 days over the July 4th weekend! Rose went into the hospital for surgery to remove the kidney stones. Last year, she had stones the size of nickels and quarters. The Doc ultrasonically blasted them, but unfortunately not all of them were pulverized, and those that were left began to form, like a pearl in a clam. Well, to make a long story short, they put a tube in through her back and into her kidney and removed 8 stones a little bigger than rabbit turds. They left the tube in her for 2 1/2 days, and she was not pleasant to be around. Once they removed the tube, she got better almost instantly.
I brought her home Sunday afternoon. She is doing very well. A pastoral care group from our church has been bringing meals over in the evening, and tell us they will be doing it for 5 days. Bless them! They have brought over some wonderful food. Rose hasn't eaten much, but it hasn't stopped me. She did eat lasagna yesterday. Nobody could have passed that up!
We did enjoy the 4th at home. Only saw the fireworks on TV, with the occasional burst in the local neighborhood. Someone in the neighborhood decided that 10 o'clock at night was too early to dispense with the celebratory mood, so he continued to blast the neighborhood until midnight. You gotta love those that don't work, but can afford thousands of dollars for fireworks! Thank God, when he attempted to carry on the tradition the next night, he apparently ran out of noise makers at around 9:30 pm.
Tuesday, back to work, and the day topped off by a "not guilty" verdict for poor pitiful Casey. What a country!
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