KELLY IS IN THE GODERICH HOSPITAL AND BEING TRANSFERRED TO LONDON'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL THURSDAY

When Pheebs and I returned from our morning drive this morning Kelly was in her bedroom lying down because she didn't feel well.  As the morning wore on she became increasingly nauseous.  She had taken Gravol but it didn't help.  The nauseous increased to the point where Kelly began throwing up a lot of blood.  I wanted to call an ambulance but she said no, she would rather I drive her to the Goderich hospital.  So, that's what we did.  Had she gone by ambulance she would have been seen by a doctor right away but it was well over an hour before a doctor actually saw her and by that time she was feeling sick again and her stomach was hurting.  I stayed with her until it was determined she would not be going home.  With nothing in her stomach she was craving a Wendy's Frosty so I slipped out and got her one.  By the time I got back, they were in the process of putting five IV Lines into her arm.  A saline solution line, an anti-biotic line, an anti-nauseau line, plus two other lines I have since forgotten.  After the Goderich doctor had a discussion with Kelly's liver doctor in London it was decided that Kelly be taken by ambulance to London sometime Thursday.  The ambulance would have taken her today but arrangements had to first be made in London for a bed for her.  So, that's where we are right now.......Below is my post for today which I had begun before taking Kelly to the hospital this afternoon.....................

 WAITING TO SEE THE DOCTOR

 THIS IS ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THE BLOOD KELLY THROUGH UP

KELLY TOOK A PICTURE OF HER IV TREE

 SHE LIKES HER PRIVATE ROOM IN THE GODERICH HOSPITAL

A windless but very wet Hurricane Beryl quietly slipped into our sleepy neighborhood sometime in the dark of night.  Early on when I pulled back our morning curtains I saw puddles in the driveway and knew she had brought a lot of water with her.....and it was still raining.  (And, as I post this tonight it is still raining with the temperature at 62F)  Checking our 'live radar' weather site I could see a large rain mass and knew we were in for a long wet day.  I also knew it wasn't big and scary enough to deter Pheebs and I from our morning outing. I don't think her and I have ever been deterred from from going anywhere by Mother Nature's weather whether it be rain, snow, fog, or whatever.

 A FEW PICS ON OUR WAY TO GODERICH

 A WHEAT SPILL ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

 OVERNIGHT RAINS PUT A QUICK STOP THIS FARMER'S WHEAT HARVEST

THIS PIECE OF GREEN MACHINERY ON A TRAILER IS CALLED A 'HEAD' AND IT FITS ONTO THE FRONT OF A COMBINE TO CUT AND FEED THE WHEAT INTO THE COMBINE

With the Subaru needing gas, me needing a coffee, and Pheebs needing a car ride, we all headed off to Goderich to see what we could see.  The rain stopped, clouds lightened up, and after our five stops in Goderich we headed home through a few growing sun splashes.  By the way, it was cool enough this morning that with Pheebs window open I had to put on a touch of heat in the Subaru.

 DESPITE OUR STORMY WEATHER, LAKE HURON IS UNCHARACTERISTICALLY VERY CALM

Home again, with patches of sunshine overhead, and with a welcome mass of civilized cooler air once more I wasn't long in rounding up a few garden tools and happily catching up on a bunch of yard work.  Thanks to Hurricane Beryl for dragging all this cool 67F air in for us.  Much appreciated by many of us.  By early afternoon winds had picked up and skies clouded over again as a second storm front came rolling in across Lake Huron packing more rain. 

 CAME ACROSS THIS BAND OF HORSES ON OUR WAY HOME

Al's Music Box:)) Broken Hearted Melody is a popular song by Sarah Vaughan.  Hal David wrote the lyrics for "Broken Hearted Melody", with Sherman Edwards writing the music instead of his better-known collaborator Burt Bacharach.  Sarah Vaughan recorded the song in early 1958, left it for over a year before releasing it around the first of July 1959.  It was initially released as the B-side to 'Misty', but flipped when "Broken Hearted Melody" proved more popular with the public.  "Broken Hearted Melody" became one of Sarah Vaughan's biggest hits, yielding Vaughan her first million seller.  It was also Vaughan's first song to receive a Grammy nomination at the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards for Best Performance by A "Top 40" Artist.  It became part of her concert repertoire for many years afterward.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( After years of wondering why he didn't look like his younger sister or brother, a young man finally got up the nerve to ask his mother if he was adopted.  "Yes, you were son," his mother said as she started to cry softly. "But it didn't work out and they brought you back."

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- Welcome to the back porch where wasting time is considered time well wasted.

- Being abducted by Aliens might just be the vacation I really need right now.

- The problem is that the younger me never thought there would be an older me.

- I'm super excited about a brand new day of hanging on by a thread!!

- On a positive note....you are now too old to have a mid-life crises.

- Today I bought a donut without sprinkles....Diets are hard.

- Today's 3-year-olds can turn on laptops, smart phones and apps......When I was 3 I ate mud.

- If you see cows sleeping in a field does that mean it's pasture bedtime?

- Jack: "Do you know how long fish should be cooked?"

Jill: "Probably the same as short fish."

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