Wait and Wait Some More

We were up at 4:45 this morning.  We had to be at the hospital by 7:30.

It was a still dark when we left Holden.  I took this picture through the front window as we approached Nephi.  There was not much traffic until we got to Santaquin.  There was some road construction, but the workers hadn't arrive to work.

We were able to find the right door of the hospital without any difficulty.   Carol checked in at a touch screen.  The had round pagers.  Carol took one and then we waited.

A woman dressed in scrubs that visited with others that were waiting.  Sometimes she would direct direct people to get a wrist tag.

 Finally Carol was called.  She came back and we waited.

They hooked Carol up to several machines.   Then we waited.

Another nurse came in and hooked to different machines.   And we waited.

I got me a selfie with my mask.

Finally the nurse technician came in for the procedure.  I was invited to leave and in about ten minutes a  nurse took me back to exam room 68.  The procedure was successful.   We had to wait an hour, so we waited.

They had me get the car.  I got on the elevator.  It was going up.  A nurse entered the elevator and went to the top floor.  She told me how to go down.  I pushed the icon for down and nothing happened.  Finally I pushed the right button and made it down.  Carol was in a wheel chair.  She was waiting for me.  The nurse pushed Carol out to the car.  Carol was told not to drive. 

We stopped at Costco for gas.  I then drove to Mills and pulled off because I was getting sleepy.  Carol drove the rest of the way home.  After lunch I went out to the garden and started watering and digging weeds.

The Blue Lake bush beans are starting to come up.

I put up another wire yesterday.  The turnbuckle is holding it tight.

 The burpless cucumbers change every day.  I am training them to vertical as well as horizontal.

This is the second of cucumbers.

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Treatments Agin Today

This morning we went to the hospital to have another infusion. We were there around 7:30. We waited in room one but no one came. The one of nurses did not tell the other nurse that we were here. We waited for about 45 minutes. One of the doctors, Dr. Bassett looked in our room. We told him that we had been waiting for nearly and hour.  He then went to the nurses station and told them that we were here.

The nurse, a man, and a good nurse started the procedure. The IV medication began to leak. He turned it off and removed the old needle and stuff in her arm. Carol has had so many needles poked into her arms that he had to find a new place. He found a place on the back of her left arm. He poked around trying to get a good vein. As I watch that I was getting all sweaty. I left the room and walked around in the foyer. I then went into the room and I had to leave again. The second time I went back he had got a good vein and it attached the anti-biotic.

We then waited for about 30 minutes for the procedure to be completed. She was released and we walk together out to the car.

We drove home and had our breakfast or it should be called our brunch because it was nearly ten.

After breakfast, I push chipper shredder to the backyard. I got the engine started and began started shredding broken branches. It did not work very well. I had to push the into the shredder. It quit working. I turned off the engine and to decide how to fix it.

I got an eighteen quart tote for my tools.  Freckles, our cat, jumped right in and made himself right at home.

Some of the bolts used to hold the lever which tightens the belts had come loose. I could not lift the lever to engage the engine to the chipper. I removed the guard cover exposing the belts. I thought that one of the Bells had slipped off the pulley. That was not the case, there was nothing blocking the belts.

Then went into the house and watched some YouTube videos to see if I could get any help. They helped a little bit. I went back out to the lawn and gave it some more thought. For some reason I lifted up the engine. Doing that released the pressure on the belts and I was able to securely tightened the nuts. I then put the belt cover back on.

I cut some the branches into smaller which would make it easier to push through the shredder. One of the branches was too thick and hard to shred. This machine is design to shred branches up to 3 inches in diameter. The Big Branch that I started to shred was too hard and thickness may have been okay.

I walked out to the southeast corner all of our yard to get some big branches that I cut yesterday. These were branches from cottonwood tree. None of them we're over 3 in diameter. I took them back to the shredder and pruned of some of the side branches  They went through the shredder without difficulty.

Lisa, Chase, and Emi stopped on their way to St George for a brief vacation.  We had a nice visit. 

Alisha called and wanted to plant some seeds that she bought. One was pampas grass. She did not know the name of the other two. We planted some of the other seats.

We drove to Fillmore where Carol was scheduled for MRI.  She checked in while I parked the car.  We waited for about 45 minutes. She went to the MRI machine which was in a big truck.  It took about ninety minuets to completed.  I dictated most of the above text while I was waiting.  

When she was finished we moved to room one where she received the last anti-biotic treatment, we hope.

When we got home we had supper and spent the rest of the evening watching tv.  Carol received a number of phone calls.


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A Day at the Hospital

Not much focus on wood or the gardens today.  The emphases is on Carol, my wife, and her illness.

This has been an eventful 24 hours.  But it really started Saturday.  Carol has been feeling sick. Her back aches, stomach is sore, and she hurts all over. I went to the temple and she stayed home because she didn't feel well. I had a good day at the temple.  We were able to leave the temple seven.  When I got home she was not any better.  She was still feeling sick.

Sunday morning which was last night; she wanted to go to the hospital because she felt so sick. We went to the emergency room. They took her in and gave her an infusion of liquid because she was so dehydrated.. The doctor there was from out of town. We thought it was a kidney infection. They gave her some medication which was supposed to help. We stayed there until about twelve. We then came home and she was told to come back this morning her appointment was at 9:30.

We were there about 9:15. I made a list of things to get while at the clinic.  I'd dropped her off at the at the clinic.  She walked in and I  bought a furnace filter, some PVC things to fix the leaking hose in house six; a hose bib. an air filter for the lawn mower.  I made a deposit at the credit union. I stopped at the bank to talk to Kim.  I then went back to the clinic.  She was taken to the hospital where they did a lot of tests trying to find what was causing the pain or infection.  Later, she was admitted into the hospital. Her nurse asked a lot of questions about medical history and other health procedures that she has had.  They brought her lunch about twelve,  Carol did not want to eat anything.  I ate part of here lunch and then came home.

At home I cut the pipe and put in a gate value. I tried to put the new hose bid in, but the threads were stripped so that I could not do it.  I did all of the watering. .About 5:30 I went back to the hospital and waited with her for a couple of hours. Carol's super was there.  She at part of it and I ate the rest of it.  We watched some TV together.    Doctor Bassett came in to give a report.  He said that they could not find what was causing the infection. After a little while I came home. I then went to the post office and picked up the mail. I called Eric Gray,  Lisa called back a little later.

I bought an air filter for the lawn mower. The old the old filter was full of oil. I found alan wrench and removed the plug.  I got a pan and drained out some oil, then put the plug back in.  I checked the oil again still too much oil. I drained a little more out and check the oil again.  The next time I removed the plug and drained out too much oil before I got the plug back in.  I poured a little oil back into the engine. I finally got it right.   

Got some chicken feed for the chicks and I made a device shown in the picture where I could raise or lower the chicken feeder.  I just hooked the wire on a different screw.  

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