This week went faster than the past few have. I don't know why because we didn't do anything spectacular.

It wasn't 10 minutes after I had posted last week about Bill not moving much than he told me he wanted to go out and walk. We still had to put the extra oxygen concentrator in his apartment, so we went out and got it hooked up. He stayed out about an hour. I don't know if he walked the entire hour, I kind of doubt it, but at least he walked. But, that's the only day he's been out.

I had a dr. appointment Tuesday. I thought I had somehow pulled a muscle in my left leg, but didn't know how I would have done it. Tuesday morning it was better, but my leg felt cold on the inside. So, again, since blood clots are in the family, off to the dr. Turns out after talking to the practitioner, I remembered that I had a "twinge" across my lower back Sunday carrying in groceries. She thinks I just inflamed my sciatic nerve. The leg feels fine now and there is no pain, other than my usual aches and pains. She had told me not to lift anything heavy and I told Bill that he would have to walk to bed, I wouldn't be able to carry him! She also told me not to line the grocery bags up my arm to carry in as many as possible. That's going to be hard to do!

We've both been stuffy again and our neighbors came over Thursday and said that they had both been sick off and on since Christmas with this same stuff. I wish it would just get warm and be done. But, it's only January so that's a long way off, even though we've had a warmer month than usual.

We went through some paperwork and Bill sat at the shredder while I looked through and sorted. I've got to get some of this stuff more organized than it is!

I got our taxes filed yesterday. It's so much easier when you're retired and only have a couple of forms. Don't have to wait for mortgage statements and, since Bill is exempt from real estate and personal property taxes because he's a 100% disabled veteran, we didn't have to wait for those statements.

Bill has been talking a lot about "going" so I finally asked him if he was wanting to go somewhere. He said yes, so we may try to get away for a few days. He has a dr. appointment in Memphis Thursday with his lung dr. so maybe we'll head somewhere after that appointment. Just have to see.

All for this week, I think the washer has stopped so it's time to move clothes. Have a good week!

I've been trying to think of something to write about this week...and I got nothing. Well, almost nothing.

There were no health issues other than the usual things we deal with. Bill still hasn't been very active which is not going to please his drs. But, I can't make him do it.

We did go out to eat with Emily's family for Brianna's birthday. Bryan's parents and sisters were there too so it was a pretty big group. Had a good time and brought half of our food home for lunch the next day.

That's really about it. It hasn't rained for 2 days now and today the sun is actually shining. It's still too warm for January (supposed to be near 70) and we are supposed to get rain overnight so we're probably going to have a stormy, or at least noisy night. 

That's it, a very boring week and boring can be good! Have a great week!

It's almost midnight, so it's close enough to Saturday to post. I'm not tired tonight so I may as well be productive!

We've had a very boring week. The weather was crazy. After our snow last week-end, we had highs in the 70s until Thursday night and the bottom dropped out again. It was only 40 today with a foggy mist most of the day. We also had horrible winds. I told Bill as we were going to bed one night that if I didn't know how warm it was it would seem like we were having a blizzard. We aren't going to get any of the ice storm this time around. I feel sorry for the ones who are getting it. I remember how bad it was when we had ours in 2009. 

Because of the snow and wind and rain we didn't do much. I did take Brianna to therapy this week and got a few groceries, but Bill didn't leave the house. I think he's going to have to go to the dr. about his cough. His nose has also been drippy again and he said that one side is very sore and he wants to take his oxygen off. As long as he's just sitting he's OK, but he wanted to take it off last night when we went to bed and I told him that I would sit up all night to make sure he kept it on and that did the trick.

We're probably going out to eat with Emily's family in the next few days for Brianna's 18th birthday Monday. It doesn't seem possible that she's that old already.

That's about it. I said in the beginning that it was a boring week! For those of you in the path of the ice storm, stay safe.

IT'S COLD!!!

We got snow Thursday/Friday and we weren't supposed to get any accumulation, but we got between 1 and 2 inches. We aren't planning on leaving the house, except to feed the cats.

It was 10 when I got up this morning and not supposed to get much above 20. I know it's colder than that in other places, but this is cold for Arkansas! And next week it is supposed to be back into the upper 50s/lower 60s and rain.

This was a relatively quiet week. We got all of the Christmas decorations boxed and put away for another year. The house looks bare!

We've both done well as far as health goes. Bill's cough has eased back some again. He hasn't been out walking since before Christmas. But, the weather was too bad with all the rain we had, and now the cold. I guess I'll just have to settle for him walking to and from the kitchen.

We are dr. free until the 2nd of February when we have to make a trip to Memphis to the pulmonologist. Then Bill should have his quarterly labs done and the end of the month we both have eye appointments. Then unless something happens, we're free of appointments until May.

Brianna's post op rehab is going well. I went with her to therapy Thursday and she now doesn't need to use her crutches. She still needs her brace but the therapist told her that another week and she can probably stop using it. I don't know if she will just go to her smaller brace or do completely without. 

That's about it for this week. I'm just planning on staying warm!