'ENJOYABLE WEEK

This has been a very good week, been cleaning the shed, work but I have enjoyed looking at things. going through the kids school papers and awards they got, Have boxed up their things for them. School albums, drawings and other things to give them. I have really accomplished a lot this week. It is so good to feel better and have a little more energy. Beautiful weather, warm and sunshine, could not stay in the house. Ate our lunch on the patio or on back porch. Finally got the wood off and it cleaned. Got my bird feeders all filled and love to watch the birds. The squirrls have taken over here, I use to love to watch them but no more. Coy and I burned a hugh burn pile last night, well I told him not to start it until late, but he just couldn,t wait. I "am not going to be sick from the smoke" I refuse to do that. But I told him if I did It would be his fault. It got burned anyway alone with a hugh pile of old papers out of the shed. I burned a lot of history, all my Histology papers, notes, books got burned up. Sad in some ways, I miss it sometimes, I loved the work I accomplished from working. I was 40 when I went back to school, got my degree in Histology, went to work and worked for over 20 years and was supervisor for 9 years. Great accomplishment for me. I am proud for what I did. Briauna came over she was amazed at all the stuff, she said some of this is over 100 years old. She was looking at some of the things I was sending home with her that was her mothers.I hope it was Ok with Pam. I sent all her school annuals, some of her awards and other things. I also have gathered up some of Tony's stuff to take to him. All the kids love to go to the old house that has lots of stuff in it. Kiefer was out there going through things the other day. I carried a bunch of stuff to a 4-H sale. Just get rid of it. Have lots of stuff to burn. Well enough of that for now. GOD BLESS

SUN--DAY

It is beautiful outside today and supose to last all week, a chance of showers 2 days, but mostly sunny, love it need it. Got my back porch cleaned off almost yesterday, like a little wood, afraid we will have another cold snap, want to be ready. I also planter 90 glad bulbs. have a few more to go. mowed some leaves and mulched some also. We will not be going so much this summer so I will spend more time in my yard.

Going to till up a row in garden and plant some wild flowers, have a mixture of arkansas wild flowers. Wonder how many will come up. I hope all of them. I love cosmos so I will pick a few packages up to mix with them. I planted my glads where I can put a picket fence around and help hold them up. They are a beautiful flower.
I really like flowers, but the seed you buy don't come up very well anymore. Marigolds I like to plant in the garden, the smell keep a lot of harmful bugs away. They really do stink but a beautiful flower. Planted red clover all along the ditch our front, hope it comes up, hadn't seen any yet. That will be so pretty. Cleaned out some of the cane break and planted some vines I got from Roy's all of them lived so it will be pretty some day. It has varigated green leaves and blue flowers on it. Trying to plant things that will grow every year so they will be there.
This old age don't permit you to do a lot of extra.

Coy keeps saying when his arm gets well he is going to do this and do that, well I know how his doing is. Very little as possible. A lot of things I have done is things I told him he needed to get done before he had that done. Well that is a man for you.
Well enough of that
God Bless all of you

MARCH 1

Coy went in for surgery at Arkansas Surgery Center, he was suppose to be there at 9:30, we got there at 9 am, they took him on back and got him prepped for surgery. His gown, pretty little hat, IV and all those cute little things they do. His heart rate went up to 180 so that brought a room full of nurses and Dr. They begin to work with him, did an EKG, it was not good , it did it again only it went to only 160 this time. It was running higher than it should and fluctuated back and forth. So irregular so they got some kind of medicine and put in his IV. Undecided to whether they would do surgery or not. The medicine worked and took care of the problem. so they decided to go ahead.
He did great the Dr. said. The nerve block should last about 18 hours, but they gave it to him about 10:30 this morning ,did not go in surgery until 3:10 so it will not last all night.
Well at 2 am this morning the pain returned with a vengence. It was the worst pain,"he said" he had ever had. He called the nurse and told her "didnt you tell me you had some medicine for this pain and if you dont bring me a sledge hammer so I can get me out of my misery." So the pain had to be very bad. It was not a good night or day after that. He kept pulling his sling off and taking his pillow out fron under his arm. He is not a good patient at all. So glad I had a room next to his so I could watch him. He is very agitated at the garb he has to wear. Not eating or drinking like he is suppose to. But it is going to be Ok. No much rest until Wed night we came home thursday.

The Dr. said it would be better to go on than for him to be off his plavix another 10 days and do it all over again. So that is what we did. He did great in surgery. No problem.
Everyone told him he just wanted the attention of all the nurses and Dr.

He got plenty of that. All the nurses was in there doing what needed done. His anethesologist was with him all through the surgery to make sure things went well. He don't usually stay in there. Dr. Stewart told us that. I was just praying and I knew in my heart, God was going to take of things.He did and we are so richly blessed. God Bless all