IT TURNED OUT TO BE A QUIET DAY AND WE DIDN'T HAVE TO RUSH OFF TO ANY HOSPITALS

If I had bet money that I would have had to call an ambulance for Kelly in the night, I would have lost the bet.  She woke up this morning feeling a touch better than when she went to bed.  Although happy about that, and from past experience, we both know that her 'feeling better' is only temporary.  The results of Kelly's back X-ray have revealed that she has a new compression fracture in her spine at T-11.  That is in addition to her other fractures at L-4 and L-5.  The newest fracture is causing her a lot of pain but she was prescribed a low dose of morphine for that yesterday and that is helping somewhat.  By mid-morning I could tell she was losing ground.  A trip to the washroom confirmed that she was still bleeding.  Kelly called her doctor's office in London and spoke to someone who said they would pass Kelly's message on to Dr. Kahn.  Around noon, Kelly's liver liaison lady Amy called and talked with her.  Because Kelly has an Endoscopy procedure coming up this Friday morning anyway, Amy suggested Kelly stay put and if she has any more bleeding we should call an ambulance and go to the Goderich Hospital.  So, that is where we are at right.  Kelly hasn't thrown up any more blood since yesterday afternoon but she is feeling very weak and has spent most of her time in bed resting. Kelly's Nurse Practitioner in Goderich called around 4 p.m. and they talked over Kelly's medical condition, plans, and procedures.  Kelly at the moment is not only battling a serious liver disease but compression fractures in her spine, (Osteoporosis) and a Prolapse Condition which in part is probably causing her current bladder infection.  All of these things plus all of the medications she has to take have their own multitudes of nasty side effects.

It was a cold, wet, and depressingly gray November day here and I have spent most of the time in my sunroom recliner reading.  I didn't take a single photo all day and the few random pictures in this post are mine from my photo files.  At the time of posting this tonight, Kelly is feeling a little bit better and we're hoping she will have an uninterrupted good night's sleep.

Thank you to everyone for all your concerns, prayers, well wishes, advice, and kind words.  They go a long way on days like these..........

Al's Music Box:)) Tequila Sunrise is a song from 1973, written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, and recorded by the Eagles. It was the first single from the band's second album, Desperado.  It peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Glenn Frey and Don Henley did not write songs together for their debut album, Eagles, and after they had finished recording the album in London, they decided that they should collaborate. In the first week of their partnership, they wrote "Tequila Sunrise" and "Desperado".   According to Frey, the song was finished fairly quickly. He said he was lying on a couch playing the guitar, and came up with a guitar riff he described as "kinda Roy Orbison, kinda Mexican". He demonstrated it for Henley and said: "Maybe we should write something to this."  The title refers to a cocktail named Tequila Sunrise that was then popular. In the liner notes of 2003's The Very Best Of, Henley had this to say about the song:  I believe that was a Glenn title. I think he was ambivalent about it because he thought that it was a bit too obvious or too much of a cliche' because of the drink that was so popular then. I said, 'No - look at it from a different point of view. You've been drinking straight tequila all night and the sun is coming up!' It turned out to be a really great song.  According to Billboard, the theme of the song is "one man's efforts at survival and having to take 'a shot of courage."  Cash Box called it "a magnificent medium tempo tune certain to become a classic" that is "highlighted by some excellent vocal harmonies."  Record World called it a "beautiful folk rock item with the pedal steel country feel."  Henley said that Frey came up with changes for the bridge, and that "take another shot of courage" refers to tequila being known as "instant courage." He said: "We very much wanted to talk to the ladies, but we often didn’t have the nerve, so we’d drink a couple of shots and suddenly it was, "Howdy, ma’am."  There is a live version of this song (Live ABC 1973) in which Glenn Frey sings additional lyrics:  Guess I'll go to Mexico, down to where the pace of life is slow, there's no one there I know. It's another Tequila Sunrise, wondering if I'm growing wise or telling lies.  There is no information to confirm if this was impromptu, or if these are original lyrics they decided to leave off the original record. Ultimate Classic Rock critic Sterling Whitaker rated it as the Eagles 7th most underrated song, praising Bernie Leadon's guitar and mandolin playing and Frey's vocal performance.

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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- What do a hurricane, a tornado, a fire and a divorce have in common?  They are four ways you can lose your house!

- We're having the same thing this year for Thanksgiving dinner as last year: Relatives!!
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Tim: I wish I had the money to buy an elephant.
Tom: What do you want with an elephant?
Tim: Nothing, I just want the money.

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A man drinks a shot of whiskey every night before bed.  After years of this the wife wants him to quit, so she gets 2 shot glasses, filling 1 with water the other with whiskey.  She gets him to the table with the glasses and has his bait box there too.  She says "I want you to see this." She puts a worm in the water it swims around. She puts a worm in the whiskey and the worm dies.  She says "so what do you have to say about this experiment?"  He says "If I drink whiskey I won't get worms"!!

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