Happy Sunday!

We have arrived in Jacksonville! The trip down was uneventful, just long. But, other than stop and go in the construction zone in Birmingham, and heavier than expected on I-10, nothing out of the ordinary.

Our week was interesting. We started getting heavy rain Sunday afternoon. Church was cancelled for the evening because the forecast was dire and, as you all know by now, it was deadly that evening. We only had 1 tornado warning and that was at 2 am Sunday morning. The weather radio was going crazy until about 3 am. Luckily, our area didn't have any damage, we only had heavy rain and some wind. It also got cold again and we had to turn the heat back on. It was finally starting to warm up Friday and is supposed to be nice this week, in the low 80's. Figures since we aren't going to be there!

We went to Brianna's last home softball game for the high school season. But, it was so cold and windy we only stayed for the 1st game. She pitched the 2nd game and said she pitched better than she had all season. We're looking forward to the summer league season for both girls.

Friday was a scary evening for us. It was of course a busy day with laundry and packing things and getting ready to go. We had just finished dinner when Emily called and said she had wrecked Bryan's truck. She was nearly hysterical so we took off to where she was. She hit a pole in a parking lot. The sun was in her eyes and she didn't see it until it was too late. I don't remember a pole ever being in that location in the parking lot so it may have been something newly placed. I also can't understand why there would be a handicap parking space in the farthest spot from the store! But, that was what she hit. After Bryan arrived she asked us to get dinner for the kids, she we took an order from them. She also had her step-brother's 2 girls. The police said she could leave so we left Bryan to wait for the tow-truck (yes she hit the pole hard enough that it wasn't drivable) and we took her home, after a trip to get the food for the girls. She called her dad to tell her other step-brother to come and pick up the girls because she knew she wouldn't be able to handle them and didn't want Brianna to have to either. Her dad said he would come and get them and we arranged to meet him halfway. So, off we went with 2 of the girls to meet my ex (good thing we get along) to swap them. Of course they had no clothes to change into and we didn't know how long they would be there! Em said that her head was hurting and we could tell that she had hit the windshield, but she also said her jaw hurt and her arm was swelling in one place. So, after Bryan got the truck towed home, they took off for the ER. They didn't get home until after 1 am, but luckily, nothing was broken. She only had a slight concussion and they told her to take it easy for a few days. She's very sore now and probably will be for several more days. But, it could have been worse. So, we were up late. They were going to come by on their way home if it wasn't too late and pick up the thunderbird keys so that Bryan would have something to drive.

We didn't get a lot of sleep that night so we were both really tired last night. Bill had brought most of his lunch sandwich (chopped pork) with us, so we heated it in the microwave in the room, cut it in half and that and a cookie was dinner. We had stopped for a late lunch anyway and I didn't feel like getting back out. I was dozing by 7:30 and managed to tell Bill to take his meds a little after 8. He turned out the light then and we were out. Slept until 7 this morning and even though we didn't have to leave early this morning were on the road again by 8:30. Got in about 2:30 and we've already had dinner, at our favorite restaurant. But, we couldn't eat in because they had a first communion party. We told them we could come back but they wouldn't hear of it and asked if we could sit at the Vietnamese restaurant next door. So, that's what we did. We told them we would come back and visit before we left.

We were going to go to the beach tonight, but have decided to let it go until tomorrow. We're going to meet some friends for breakfast after his Mayo appointment. We also have to see our old landlady to pick up some lamps we are buying from her and hope to see some other friends.

Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of the transplant! It doesn't seem like it's been 2 years already, yet at times it seems like a lifetime ago.

I think that hits the highlights of the week, and probably has more information you want to know. And reading back over it, it seems pretty disjointed. But, chalk it up to being tired!

I will update this again on Tuesday evening, Weds. evening after the heart cath and then Thursday or Friday after we get the results of the cath since it will include a biopsy. If all goes well we're heading home Thursday and arriving Friday afternoon.

I've been seeing on social media that it's Star Wars day so I'll join in with everyone else with "May the 4th be with you"! Goodnight!