Medically, we are not the perfect family....

This has been a bad week - medically for our family here in Columbia.  It started on Monday when I had to have an emergency visit to the dentist.  I know you are jealous, you wanted to be in the dentist chair didn't you?  Go ahead and admit it.  Anyway, back to my saga...One of my temporary fillings fell out and was starting to hurt.  The dentist put in another temporary filling because my dental insurance will not allow another root canal until July - really, that is when my FSA money is renewed.  So, I hope this temporary filling last until July 5th.  It does feel a lot better now.

Then on Tuesday morning, I got up and Oma was sitting in her chair.  I could tell she wasn't feeling well and sure enough her heart had been doing the cha-cha.  She told me that she was going to stay quiet for the day.  I told her if needed, call me and I would come home and take her to the doctor.  We think the issue was that she had to stop her blood thinner to get a shot in her back on Monday.  So, we are hoping that it will get better with the restarting of her medicine.  She is feeling better today.

On Tuesday night, Tom told me that he thought I was contagious because his eye was watering and really itchy.  He used me allergy eye drops and thought that would help.  On Wednesday morning as soon as I got to work Tom was waiting for me.  He looked terrible. Right eye swollen almost shut, watering terribly, and very itchy.  He said that he couldn't see very well either. I couldn't believe that he said he was going to the doctor.  He must have been hurting.  After our family doctor took one look at his eye, he told Tom that he was not leaving and needed to see a specialist right away - there was something wrong with his eye and it needed to be seen right away.  After about an hour of Tom sitting in the room with the lights out (light made it worse) the doctor had an appointment with a specialist - right away.

On to the specialist he went and I met him there.  After about an hour, finally a diagnosis of a ulcer on his cornea.  Very serious and if it doesn't get treated right away then it could lead to emergency surgery and a cornea transplant. So, he got drops to put in his eyes every two hours and ice packs until he sees the doctor the next day.

Today, we went back and both ulcers are looking very well.  One is healed and the other is about 1/2 way healed.  He said that eyes heal very quickly, but it was good that Tom seaked treatment right away.  He goes back in one week to make sure - unless he gets worse.

After I got back to work from Tom's appointment, Kristi called and asked if it was OK that one of her legs is very swollen and warm.  I told her "NO" it is not ok, call the doctor right away.  This could be serious.  So, she headed off to the doctor who suspected a blood clot.  Luckily, no clot but she is still having issues today.  She is going to call the doctor back to see what to do next.  This is very concerning.

Tomorrow, Alayna has her month ADD appointment. We are praying that she has not lost any weight, otherwise the doctor will be VERY upset.  She can't afford to lose anymore weight.  Otherwise, the medicine is doing a wonderful job.

So, Brian is the only one that is still pain free!  Let's keep it that way.

Sunset in Louisville.

While we were at dinner the last night in Louisville we ate at a really nice restaurant and it was perfect - all meals under $10 and the food was great.  This is one of the pictures that Tom took that night.

The Tsunami has hit us in Columbia

Well, it took a month, but the effects of the disaster in Japan has struck here.  Tom and I work at a Japanese automotive OEM (Original equipment manufacturing) company.  We make parking brakes for cars that are mfg in North America.  Well, the car companies have dropped their production to nearly nothing resulting in a reduction in workforce.  We released all our temps on Tuesday and asked for volunteers to take a lay-off until at least July 8th.  Also, 2nd shift was cancelled and the OTSCON employees have been moved to 1st shift.  So, Tom is going to start working daytime hours as of Monday.  This is wonderful news for us for a short time, and just about the time we get used to these hours they will move him (I have a feeling).

At this time we both still have jobs, but I don't know what the future holds.  But, for awhile we will be a family again!

Day 2 in Louisville

Lets put it this way, I am exhausted.  I got up this morning before everyone else, so I went down to the workout room.  Spent 30 minutes on Elliptical and 15 mins on treadmill.  After showers, we headed out to drop Tom off at the truck show.  I was not really happy  with them.  They made me pay $8 to drop him off.  I was not a happy camper and told that lady such.  It would have been quicker and easier to drop Tom off at the corner and let him walk.  There were probably a million people there - I really don't think I am kidding either! 

Alayna and I headed over to the zoo.  It was not as good as we expected, but we did walk through the whole zoo.  Tom had our good camera, so I had Kristi's and it is not good in the sun.  You can't see what you are taking a picture of because you have to look at the LCD on the back of the camera.  We got a couple of good pictures though, but not very many.

After we were done at the zoo, we went to Archivers and then to Toys R Us. Then started the adventure to try to find Tom.  He was dropped off at a gas station - not like there is only 1 in Louisville!  I had my IPhone going crazy with streets.  He was on Preston and I typed in Poplar. Once I figured out my error, we went right to him.  Boy, was I happy to see him!!!

He really enjoyed the truck show, only took 829 pictures.  I think he will have to go back :).  

We are now at the hotel, watching scooby doo and waiting to leave for dinner on the river again.  We are going to another restaurant - and this time Tom will bring the camera. Alayna has been an excellent girl today.  Very patient, even when I was about to tears trying to find Tom.  She told me that it would be ok, we would find him - and we did. 

Dinner on the banks of the Ohio river.

We went back into Indiana tonight and had dinner.  She took her mom's camera and took some pictures. Most of these are her handiwork.

The skyline is Louisville.

My seamstress grandchild

This week was spring break for Alayna and to keep her from getting bored, Oma got a sewing box together for her to use.  It had pins, needles, thread, etc.  Alayna also had Oma's box of scraps.  She made several doll dresses, one of which was a suit for her barbie.  She has a good attention to detail and does everything from her memory.  She is very creative. 

She got in trouble for going through the 80 fat quarters that Oma got for her birthday, so I went to Jo-Ann's and picked her up a 5 or 6 fat quarters.  She was very excited!  She took the material, pinned the edges, and sewed this multi-tier skirt.  I was so impressed.  She did this all by her self while Oma took an afternoon nap.

I really think we have something with her.  I am going to take her to a fabric store down here to see if they have a few pieces that she might want to make something out of.  I am thinking of getting her a kid sewing machine for her birthday.