And Now for Your Regularly Scheduled Update...

I seem to be on a once/week schedule with the updates. Sunday must be the only day that I have time to post. Anyway, I'm still doing well. I think we've just about got my blood thinner regulated. The last 3 or 4 tests have come back slightly low, but close enough to the range we want that we haven't really changed the way I'm taking the medicine. Hopefully we can get the number up just a little bit and then we'll be set and I can quit having blood drawn 2 or 3 times a week.

As to how I feel. I think I've reached a point now where I have begun to actually feel better than I did before the surgery. It's going to take a bit more time to get completly over it, but things are going well and I know without a doubt that I'm going to feel great in a couple of months.

In other news...DeAnne's home improvement drive continues. We bought a new light fixture for the dinning room yesterday and spent all evening hanging it, determinging that it was too low, taking it down, hanging it back up and finally wiring it.

That's about it for this week. Work is still going well. We're busy as ever. Dad came out Friday and cut the grass for me. I'm still a few weeks out from being allowed to use a lawnmower or a weed eater again.

Till next time...

--Paul

Also...

As a side note, the last post with the picture of the dinning room was the 50th post for the blog. Nothing really major, but I thought it was worth noting...


--Paul

Well, it took me a little while, but after we finally managed to track down the camera, I was able to take some pictures. We're really happy with the way it turned out. I think Emma likes it better too.

This One's For You, Courtney

We made a trip to Mobile yesterday to see Dr. Mayer. Everything went well. It was actually the shortest visit I think we've ever had at his office. We didn't wait long to be taken back, they got my blood pressure and weight (both good), and then before we knew it, he was coming in to see us. He listened to me and went over the PVC incident from a few weeks back and then told us he wanted to see me again in 6 months. The greatest part, he told me I could drop the low-sodium diet and go back to eating what I wanted to! Domino's here we come...

So after we were done at the doctor's, we went and saw Courtney and Edwin and had a great time. Courtney got on to me for not posting more often than once a week, so I'm dedicating this post to her. I also promise to get some pictures up of the dinning room. We've still got a few spots to touch up, but it's nothing that would be visible in pictures.

That's about it. I'm back at work full time now and everything's going well. It didn't take long to get back into the swing of things. It's been pretty busy, but I've not been overwhelmed. I feel really good overall. At least as good as I did before the surgery and Dr. Mayer says that by the time 6 months rolls around I should be amazed at the difference in the way I feel compared to then and before the surgery. Alright...off to make some pictures...

--Paul

Seeing Red...

I did indeed go back to work on Friday. It went well. I only worked from 8 to 12, but I managed to get a good bit done. Being able to keep up with my email at the house was a huge advantage. If I hadn't been able to check my email, it would have taken 2 days just to go through it all. Having it all read though allowed me to go in and file it away and then get right to work. There was a lot of news and things to catch up on, but I think tomorrow I'll be able to get right to work. I'm going to work just 8 to 12 this week and of course we're off Tuesday for the 4th, so it should be a pretty easy going.

We still don't have my blood thinner regulated. Just when we thought we had it figured out, the number shot up on Friday, so Dr. Kerr had me go to the hospital this morning to have it checked again and it was the highest it's ever been, which means my blood is as thin as its ever been. So now we're backing off of the pills for a day or two and basically, we're just going to have to start over. Maybe one day we'll figure out the magic combination of pill sizes to get things where we want them to be.

The home improvement projects roll on. I think DeAnne has watched enough HGTV this summer that it's killing her when she's not working on something. The current project: painting the dinning room red. We know that a lot of people have red dinning rooms, but she's always wanted a red dinning room, so now she'll have one. She got started Friday night by taking down the wallpaper border around the top of the room. Saturday she primed and put on the first coat of paint. I helped when and where I could, but there's still not a lot that I can do. I'm pretty pleased with it myself and Dee's really excited. It looked really good after the first coat dried. We're doing a second coat today to even everything out and get it looking really good. I'll post pictures after we're done and have everything cleaned up.


--Paul