Well life has slowed down a little. We only have to go to the VA once this week and I don't have any doctors appointments this week at all. We may survive to live a little longer.
Nathan has a physical therapy on Wednesday and Friday mornings. He leaves about 8:15 or 8:30 a.m for that. Every morning I have to put on a compression stocking for him and two for Larry so I get my workout.
Larry had an appointment for a MRI at the VA this morning at 10:30 a.m. His doctor ordered it because he was having some balance problems after the surgery. We usually have to get up about 7:00 a.m. because we have to leave an hour early so that we are not late and we have all those rituals that we do every morning. We were actually ready to go by 9:00 a.m. but really didn't make it too early because the Valet Parking was swamped so we had to park ourselves in one of their parking lots and then ride the shuttle up to the hospital. But Larry is feeling so much better so that wasn't too alarming. He actually used his walker today rather than get a wheelchair so that was also a big step. They told us to not be alarmed if it took 2 hours to get in because sometimes they get backed up. Today they were only behind by an hour. They didn't take as long as the MRIs that I have had. But we were still not out before 12:30 p.m.
We decided to eat in a new restaurant chain that has come to San Antonio called Pollo Tropical. They have chicken a lot like El Pollo Loco which is Larry's favorite so he thought it was pretty good.
When we got home Nathan was home but he was doing his own thing. So we started watching a new TV series called "Person of Interest". I know it is not new but it is new for us. We have watched all of the"Bones" except the ones that they charge for so we had to find something else to watch. While we watched several episodes I worked on balancing our bank account and our budget and making sure that we had paid all our bills. When I got through we realized that we are almost out of money so we may have to cut down on our spending. But at least we had money left.
After that we ate and had dinner and then read scriptures and prayed to Heavenly Father. After that it was only 8:30 p.m. so I decided that was too early to go to bed and that I needed to do something else so here I am. As you can see it was not a very exciting day. Yesterday was about the same for us.
Nathan was at the lawyers all day yesterday working on something for a VA benefit. We went to Weight watchers and then were home until about 5:30 p.m. when he called us to come and pick him up. He was over on the West Side and so we decided to eat at La Palapas for dinner and let the traffic slow down as it was rush hour.
We had Nathan's kids for the weekend. When they came we had our son Jeff here visiting his father and so Nathan suggested that we take him down to the Riverwalk to a restaurant called Casa Rios. We also arranged for him to see his cousin Mike Trolinger and his daughter Alison there also. Jeff said he hadn't seen him for several years. It was crazy but is was a good time. Jeff went to a hotel for the night and flew out early Saturday morning.
Saturday I spent the day taking Maggie to gymnastics and helping Isaac make the first part of a torte. We finished it on Sunday morning (fast Sunday no less) and it was refrigerated while we went to church. I put a roast in but it wasn't quite finished so we had corn dogs and bagle bites for the kids and sandwiches for Larry and I. Then we had family home evening. The torte was refreshments for Family Home Evening so by the time the roast was done no one wanted to eat it. But it has made several tacos and sandwiches this week.
Last week when Jeff came after we picked him up at the airport on Wednesday evening we took him to Blanco BBQ and he said he thought it was as good as any Texas BBQ he remembered. It was just Nathan and Jeff and us that night. It was fun to have Jeff visit after not seeing him for three years and as Blanco BBQ is our favorite we loved it also.
Thursday Larry had an appointment at the VA for Larry and then we met John and Judy at Logan's steakhouse. We were supposed to meet at Texas Land and Cattle but when John and Judy got there they found that it had closed in January. Jeff seemed excited to see them as he hadn't seen them since he was a teenager. We had a good time but Larry felt like he couldn't eat anything because John and Judy worried that he might get too much salt from everything.
Thursday evening we had Nathan's kids and he decided to take them to the Denny's up the street. They had a ball with Uncle Jeff and really took to his sense of humor. He was good to play with them and entertain them so they looked forward to seeing him again on Friday.
I am sure there were things before that I should mention but I cannot remember them right now. I have had a hard time making myself stay up to work on the blog because I get tired but I will try to do better.
