Later on Sunday

Right before I left, for my massage, Fred said there looked to be blood in his urine and I immediately thought I had jinxed him because I was writing about how well he was doing! Isn’t it odd how those of us who are female and especially  those of us who are female AND brought up as Catholics immediately accept guilt! Anyway, it looks to be a one-off and he has been taking his temperature every hour and it is absolutely normal. However, I will mention it to the visiting nurse tomorrow.

I got back from the wonderful massage very pleased with myself because this is the first time in the five years I have lived here that I have driven in the snow. {Before he was sick, Fred drove me everywhere I needed to go in bad weather because he knew I was nervous of winter driving–we just don’t get that experience in the Sunny South where I lived for thirty years!} It has snowed all day—light fluffy flakes that dust off the car easily, but the roads were getting icy as the snow was packed down by the traffic. The only time I felt myself slipping was coming out of the parking lot. Coming back from Burlington into the little town where I live, there is a very steep hill down and then a not-quite-as-bad-hill coming back up. There are several traffic lights as one progresses on this route including one about half-way up a hill which slightly scares me {stick shift} even when there is no snow on the road. I was SO lucky today and caught almost all the green lights all the way home. Whew!

When I got in, Bill and Fred were still talking but it was abvious to everyone except Bill that Fred was drooping with fatigue. Finally, I said loudly to Fred, “Did you take a nap yet?” and he said no but he needed to. It still took Bill ten minutes to get out and down the stairs. He will be back next Sunday at the same time so that I can get caught up on the massages.

Now we get through a couple of hours of his daughter and her family and then tomorrow is a peaceful see-no-one-but-the-visiting-nurse day. I look forward to it…

Until later…