Follow-Up

We are home.  We got home Wednesday evening about 6:30.  Hubby had a colonoscopy late in the afternoon.  He has diverticulosis, hemmorhoids and a small hiatal hernia.  The hemmorhoids could have caused the internal bleeding which over time could have led to the low hemoglobin.  He has to take iron pills until he goes back to the doctor in 8 weeks.  His number was better in the blood test Wednesday morning after the blood transfusion Tuesday evening.  It was a long few days.  We are thankful the results are not as dreadful as imagination can lead you to think.

I had lunch with Carol today.  We enjoy many of the same things, including perogies with fried onions, bacon bits and sour cream.  We went to the restaurant that serves them the way we like them.  We had a good visit.  We often talk about our husbands and discuss some of the things that cause frustration, those annoying little habits they exhibit that we don't understand like an inability to put a dirty cup in the dishwasher rather than somewhere close to the dishwasher.  Many wives understand. 

It is a lovely, sunny day but it is extremely cold.  We have to leave the kitchen taps dripping because the pipes have already frozen a couple times this winter.  Until last year, frozen pipes was never a problem.  We are unsure why they freeze now.

While I was waiting in the hospital I got a few more rows finished in the baby blanket I have been knitting on sporadically over the last year.  It is a good thing no baby is waiting.  Perhaps I would knit more if it was planned for a specific child.  For now, I am happy to have made some progress.

Supper will be easy tonight.  There is chili in the crockpot.  I made it on Tuesday when I wanted to have something ready when we got home that night.  Because I came home alone, I put it in the fridge so that we could both enjoy it later which turned out to be tonight.