My surgery is scheduled for Nov. 7. I have a lot of tests next week. I will be glad this is over. I guess the heart and lung machine is my biggest worry. People talk about pain, but I have had 2 C-sections and had pain. I just want to be able to walk out of that hospital in a week. They say I will be in the ICU a couple of days and in the hospital a week total.
I had not seen the grand kids and DD for almost a month because of different ones sick. Wes who is 3 had to go to the hospital and was in the ICU for a day. It was not pneumonia, but bronchiolitis. It is caused by a virus and they did all kinds of tests ad never could get a positive test for anything. I got to see them all yesterday when DD came to take me to the primary care doctor. She is trying to keep everybody healthy so she can help me at the hospital.
DS and his wife are expecting their first baby in early July. They live with me, so that is going to be a new experience. I feel bad he has to worry about me and all my problems. He will be the one who takes me for the tests next week and take me to the hospital for the surgery. We have to be there at 5:15 a.m. I just want to get well and be a help to his wife and DD. I was pretty much her number 1 babysitter without any notice or go with her shopping and help. I miss all that.
Hopefully, I will be talking about gardening in the spring. I have all the boxes ready for winter. I did have more work to do out there and I was planning on being active outside until the snow came.