Surgery Scheduled

The blog is back to being a "medical journal" for Woody (reason I started this blog back in 2009). The main information to share today is that Woody saw his surgeon this morning. His surgery is set for next Thursday with preop appointment on Monday. He will become a statistic on Monday...as he will get a Covid 19 test. The surgeon told him that this type of dialysis might not work. One of the problems could be scar tissue from his emergency appendectomy that happened a few years back. He will attempt to clean out scar tissue along with placing the tubing. If this form of dialysis doesn't work then he will have the "usual" type. But we will try this. We were told 2-1/2 years ago that a person can start out with peritoneal dialysis And then move to hemodialysis...but not vice-versa. Both forms can be done at home. So it is a wait and see if this works or if it doesn't. Once again it is very hot (I guess I should just say that it is "still" hot!). I spent some time watering gardens this morning...both our patio herb/veggie container gardens and Nathan's zucchini, tomato, squash, and cucumber garden. I picked a couple of zucchinis and picked up a tomato that had fallen off the vine onto the ground. I ate it at lunch...nice to have a tomato right from the garden. I "thought about" making some chocolate zucchini bread...but just couldn't face heating up the kitchen by cooking something in the oven! Tonight we had some more slices from the pork roast that I cooked over the weekend and then I made Pennsylvania Dutch Style Green Beans with fresh green that Joseph picked and brought over to us the other day...so fresh tomato and fresh green beans all in one day! Pretty good eating! Even Woody said that the green beans tasted good...but of course they are in a sweet and sour sauce...so that slightly sweet taste won him over, I'm sure! Wade talked to his mother today and she sounded positive about the way things were going for her in rehab. She said that she liked her PT person. Good to have things going in a positive direction—good for her and good for Melany's and Wade's stress levels! Melany said that they had some rain this afternoon (so did we...but not much). She said that it cooled it down enough to sit in her new swing in their back yard. She hadn't been able to do that for a while both because of the heat but also due to all the hospital comings and goings of the last week and prior to that getting things ready for Wade's mom to move to assisted living. But today Melany was able to put her feet up for a while and just relax today. And, a good thing to put her foot up as she is wearing a boot due to a bone spur rubbing on a tendon. And, then today she had a skin cancer removed from the top of her head...so she is very ready to do as little of nothing as possible. I'm with her on doing as little as possible...this heat just zaps my energy...all I want to do is sit in my recliner under the fan with the AC running and read...or nap! I just told Woody that I would be down in a little while to finish cleaning up the kitchen after it cooled down a bit...he asked, "When...December?". Very funny, Woody? Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!