KELLY'S LONDON DOCTOR APPOINTMENT WENT VERY WELL TODAY:))

 DESPITE IT BEING COLD IT WAS A NICE-LOOKING MORNING

A big bright sunny day with nary a cloud in the sky.  Temps dipped to 35F overnight and the day remained cool.  No Jeep ride for Pheebs and this morning.  Just me in the Subaru at 8:45 a.m. heading to my first physiotherapy (hip) appointment at the Russett Rehabilitation and Wellness Clinic.  The worst part of the treatment was having to first fill out all the paperwork.  I hate doing paperwork of any kind!!  I spent an hour with the therapist as she had me do a lot of things to ascertain the level of pain tolerance my right hip was able to tolerate.  She showed me a number of exercises to begin at home and I will be back there again next week and the following three weeks.  I see it as a positive step forward regarding my troublesome hip.  I was back home shortly before noon.

 I NOTICED FARMERS WERE BUSY IN THEIR FIELDS ON MY WAY TO EXETER

 SAW THIS OLD CAR FOR SALE ON MY WAY

 IF I WAS A REALLY RICH GUY I WOULD HAVE GONE RIGHT IN THERE AND BOUGHT IT

 THIS IS A VERY BUSY PLACE

Shortly before 1 p.m. it was all three of us in the Subaru again heading for London.  However, our first stop was not at University Hospital, but at the Masonville Mall about 5 blocks north of the hospital.  It was here that we were supposed to meet up with Kelly's two daughters Sabra and Rebecca, who were driving over from Kitchener.  However, Sabra's GPS led them astray and landed them on a gravel road somewhere in Perth County. With a few text messages back and forth our plans had to be slightly amended After a stop at the Masonville Mall Pheebs and I dropped Kelly off at the hospital.  Her daughters arrived at the hospital about twenty minutes later.    

 KILLING SOME TIME AT MASONVILLE MALL BEFORE HEADING OVER TO THE HOSPITAL

 DROPPING KELLY OFF AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL'S BUSY FRONT ENTRANCE

After dropping Kelly off at the Hospital Pheebs and I quickly hustled ourselves out of town and headed to our cemetery pit-stop on Ten Mile Road north of London.  We spent about forty minutes there walking around and taking a few photos.  Cemeteries are often full of curious things and pretty flowers.  

 SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO TELL WHAT'S REAL AND WHAT ISN'T,,,,,THIS BUTTERLY WAS PLASTIC

 THESE FLOWERS ARE REAL

 THIS IS WHERE WE PARK EVERY TIME WE COME HERE

Pheebs and I left the cemetery at 3 p.m. and drove back to London's Masonville Mall to await Kelly and her daughters after the appointment was over. 

 BACK AT THE MASONVILLE MALL AWAITING THE LADIES

 AND HERE COMES THE BIG BLACK RANGE ROVER NOW

Kelly's appointment had been made a couple months ago and over the past few months Kelly had become a little frustrated with the communication between her and her liver Doctor.  Assumptions were made and her future seemed uncertain.  I had written about these frustrations earlier today but decided not to post them.  The important thing is that the meeting with her Doctor today went very well.  Her daughters Sabra and Rebecca arrived at the hospital about 20 minutes late (GPS) but the Doctor's receptionist let the patient after Kelly go first so Kelly's daughters were able to go in with her.  Kelly had reasoned that by taking two of her family members with her it might carry more weight for her case.  And, she was right.  The Doctor spent far more time explaining things in detail to them and Kelly said her Doctor seemed pleased that she had brought her daughters.  And like Rebecca said, 'it's better to have six ears in the room instead of just two.  And that certainly was the case today.  Kelly's path ahead is now much clearer and she feels good about her daughter's support.  She feels it's more of a team effort now instead of her trying to cope with everything herself.  The paperwork for her to meet with the liver transplant committee was submitted today as well.  That doesn't mean she is on a transplant list but it does mean she will meet with that committee sometime in the next four to six weeks to see if she is eligible for a transplant.  In the meantime, if these plasmapheresis treatments keep the itching away that is what she will continue to do once a week.  Bottom line.....it was a feeling good day for Kelly all around:)))))                

 REBECCA ON THE LEFT, KELLY, AND SABRA ON THE RIGHT

Al's Music Box:)) Forever by Pete Drake from Bill Anderson's album 'Still'.  1963

 FARMERS ARE ALREADY MOWING THE WINTER WHEAT FIELDS

GROANER'S CORNER:((  What do you get if you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole?
Hot cross bunnies!

Q: Do you know why the Roman Coliseum went out of business?  A: The lions were eating up all the prophets.

- How do sailors get their clothes clean?  They throw them overboard and then they are washed ashore.

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You might be a reneck if........

- Your wife asks you what you want to be when you grow up.

- You see a forest fire and think 'Bar-bee-Q'.

- You've ever strained your tea through a flyswatter.

- Your mother is hairier than your father.

- Instead of flossing you use a plunger.

- You take the back window out of your pickup because it's easier to chuck the empty beer cans in the back that way.  When the back fills up with empty beer cans, you get another pickup and start all over again.

- Your grandma can bench press a truck axle.

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