Hey there everyone!
 I know that I had this written one way earlier, but someone brought it to my attention that I was being a lil hard on both Rick & myself because of all the stress & worry that I have been going thru with Rick's health, and trying to take care of myself at the same time.
 Thank You Thorn for bringing this to my attention! I appreciate that you brought this to my attention!
 Rick is doing a lil bit better since he came home from the emergancy room, where we spent almost the whole day there, trying to find out what was going on with his health. Rick has a touch of pneumonia, and his kidneys arent working the way that they should be.
 So Monday, we have to go up to the VA hospital in Knoxville, which is 25 miles from us, in the morning, because they want him to go give some labs, and it has to be a fasting lab. Then we have to return in the afternoon at 1 pm so that we can see his primary care doctor, which is a new one because the primary care doctor that he did have moved up to the Des Moines Hospital, because gradually they are going to close down the Knoxville hospital for good, even though they have been saying that for a few years now!
 While we are at the appointment, I am goin to bring out a list of questions to ask this doctor, and try to get some answers from him, and if he cant give me the answers, then I am goin to find a doctor in the VA system that can give me the answers! The only reason that I am doing this is because I am Rick's primary caregiver, and I want to know what I should be doing, besides giving him the care that I have already been trying to give him!
 As for my health, mentally and physically, I am doing a lil bit better! My mental health is doin real well, I am taking my medications like I am suppose to be doing, seeing my therapist, and seeing my psychatrist like I am suppose to be doing, and when things get real bad, I call or go talk to some of the support people that I have!
 6 days after we return from our wonderful Christmas vacation, which his family gave to us so that we could have a wonderful family Christmas together, I go in for surgery on my left hand for carpal tunnel. My left hand is the worst right now, which I really do not understand, because I am right handed and use that hand more than I do my left one. I am wearing braces on both hands 24/7, which is kind of a pain in the ass sometimes, especially driving a stick shift car! I was driving my truck, but there are some mechanical problems with it right now, and I was so mad about it, because I wasted money on getting something that I really didnt need quite yet! But alot of that has to do with the mechanic that I usually deal with, because he didnt come out and look at the truck like I wanted him to, he just told me that "he thought that it was my right front tire that needed to be replaced." So now the truck is parked for a while, because we are trying to save up enough money to have when we go out to California, even though his parents have told us not to worry about money...we really dont want to rely on them if we really dont have to.
  I hope that everyone is having a good weekend, and that where ever you are, that you are having a lil bit better weather then we are here, because right now it is 36 degrees outside here in Southern Iowa, and I know that I am ready to go to California and get a suntan!
 Talk to you all soon! Take care and keep the rubber side down!
~Peace, Love, Hugs, & Respect!~
Jeanine

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