Friday, March 10, 2006

Excitement

well, i spent my christmas money yesterday! i am finally the owner of my very own.............laptop!! i am so excited. i kept seeing it across the room and thinking, oh, ryan's home....no WAIT!! that's mine!! haven't done too much with it yet. another cool part of it was that i bought a different laptop, and the "geek squad" at bestbuy had to check it out, and get the bestbuy stuff off of there because it turned out to be the display. they said they'd call me in an hour/hour and a half. after 3 hours, i just went there, figuring they must have lost my phone no., but no, the comp kept freezing when they tried to reload the gateway stuff. so, they told me to look for a comparable one. of course, there were none, except for pricier. so, they gave me a better one for only a little more. i am sure glad that i didn't get the first home, and discover it was crap (probably after 14 days), since, of course, i couldn't afford the service plan which was $300 more.

i got a call at 8am yesterday from grandpa, waking me up. he just wanted to tell me he slept well, ate breakfast, had a good bm (tmi), and was reading the paper. then, about a minute later, he repeated the exact above statements. now, i'm glad he's fine, but he really doesn't have to wake me up to tell me that he is ok. if he's not, call me. but not if he's fine. at 8am. and the bm part was too much. next, he'll start telling me the color of his pee.

ryan, i tried a bunch of times to respond on your blog, but it rejected me. sounds like a good book, but probably too technical for a non-history buff.

Friday, March 03, 2006

hospitals stink

Hospitals stink! or did i say that already. for those of you in the know, which is no one who reads this blog....grandpa S was in the er on wednesday, and admitted. this is friday. if the darn doctors would show up when called, he would have been home yesterday. but noooooooooooo, they have to putz around for 2 days thinking about whether they want to see him, and if it should be at 10pm or not. he is still waiting today for 2 doctors. i was there in a chair for 12 hours yesterday and then died. what a massage i needed. i just wanted to be there to talk to the docs, cause grandpa is forgetting things.

the diagnosis is a probable TIA, or ministroke, no residual side effects now. and too quick withdrawal from a medicine that you get "habituated" to. they told him to stop it for a week before his sleep study, without warning him that he would have to wean down. grandpa in withdrawal. scary.

he was very out of it and confused on wednesday, a very very scary to watch deal. but now that they gave him back the med, he's ok.

kev is in the talent show tonight. he looks well. and sings well. we will go tonight for the real deal.

love you all
mom