Tomorrow, Tuesday, 10/19

Update... 6:12 p.m.   call from hospital, going to be at the hospital in the surgical area at 8:45 tomorrow, and will be taken back between 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.  Thank you for your prayers and caring! 

Right kidney biopsy tomorrow.  I am still waiting for the hospital to call with the time needed to check in. Gloria (sister) won't be able to go with me tomorrow, Allen has an appointment with his Oncologist tomorrow in Wenatchee (opposite direction from Royal City as I am going).  My plan is to get up really early tomorrow, pack up and drive over to the hospital in Richland. 

The doctor mentioned  my procedure would be second on his surgery list, so whatever time the nurse calls me with... it will be early.  Since the registration information listed me as an inpatient, guess I better take a change of clothes and a book.  

If this is like the last biopsy, it will be about ten days before I hear any results.  Again, I am working on patience.  The strange thing is that I am not all stressed out about this procedure either.  I am not taking any of this lightly, but neither am I on overload emotionally.  I feel that my prayers for comfort and courage are being answered.

Our weather is turning colder, 31 degrees this morning with frost on the cars.  Anyone can tell you that I am a person who does not like to wear shoes.  I am very comfortable in flip flops, using thick soles in the winter to walk on top the ice or snow.  But, with my diabetes, and the last year I have such cold feet.  Enclosing my feet in socks and shoes really bothers me (slight claustrophobia).  Guess I better get used to it, as I don't want to add getting sick with virus conditions on top of everything else.   This is just the beginning for my being on the winter roads.  Shoes are the better option for me just in case of a car break down on ice or snow. 

Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows like a song.  But the man worthwhile in the one who will smile when everything goes wrong.  (by Ella Wheeler Wilcox)