The End of a L-O-N-G day!

James and his Bama Jam shirt

Some days just work out to be longer than others and today was one of those. It was time for James' quarterly check up with the kidney Doctor. Last week he had his lab work done at Elba Hospital lab and all the reports (3 pages) were at the Dr's office this morning. We're all very apprehensive the day of his check up. He has been in renal failure for several years now and this is nothing new. It's just that we are concerned that we will go to the Dr. and he will say that he has to start on dialysis, 3 days a week, 4 hr sessions. He is almost at that stage, and has been for about 4 years.


We got up early, got dressed and had a good breakfast before leaving for Dothan to see the Dr. at 10:15 a.m. James wanted to wear his new BamaJam shirt today. The Dr. was pleased with James' lab test results and actually dropped one of his medications, Zocor, which he was taking for high colesterol, which was down to 100. James was so pleased with his good report, that upon leaving Dothan he asked if I would call his staff at the workshop and tell them the good news.


It takes about 1-1/2 hours to get to the Dr.'s office. We had a list of things to do while in Dothan and in Enterprise on the way home. We don't take unnecessary trips anymore. One of our stops in Enterprise was to get posts, cement, etc to replace posts holding up a section of our wooden fence that fell in yesterday's bad storm. Then a stop at the curb market to get a bag of shelled pink-eyed purple hull peas they had reserved for me ($24). We'll have some for dinner tomorrow night, along with some hot, crusty corn bread. Jim bought some homemade chocolate ice cream while there. It was 2 pm and we hadn't had lunch yet.We arrived home, put away our groceries and other purchases, and then had a quick lunch so we could go back to Enterprise at 4 pm!


Jim had a board meeting of his Pea River Historical and Genealogical Society at 4:30 pm. James and I shopped at WalMart while he was there and at 5:30 we picked Jim up after his meeting. He took me to Enterprise College and dropped me off for an hour so I could speak to a child development class, talking about how it is to be the parent of a mentally handicapped child. They asked lots and lots of questions. They were amazed that James was in the first special education class in Atlanta, GA (DeKalb County), in the 1960's.


While I was at the college, Jim took James to eat at his favorite restaurant, Burger King.We arrived back home around 7 p.m. and James said, as we turned into our drive, "Oh, Boy. It's good to be home again. I can't wait to get in my favorite chair, relax and watch a ball game on TV." I don't think he has gotten out of his chair in the past hour.


And then, I started to think of the things I didn't accomplish that need to be done. They'll just have to wait until tomorrow. Taking care of the tree that blew over (came out of the ground) at the playground, finding a speaker for the AARP dinner when the scheduled speaker could not be there, pick our Concord grapes to make jelly and wine (they are very ripe), and lots of other things waiting to be done.


I just think I'll just go into my Scarlett mode and "think about all that tomorrow". Besides I have a good movie to watch tonight.