It was a LOVELY visit with my parents over the weekend. Although I had to drive for 4 1/2 hours in rain to get there. The rain wasn't really the problem so much. It was the spray back from the other vehicles. Traffic was minimal...which is ALWAYS a good thing. By the time I got there I had a headache and was tired. So after some conversation with my parents I laid down for a bit and my mom woke me to eat pizza. We had a nice dinner together and conversation. No interruptions...didn't have to rush off anywhere.
Then my dad showed me a video of what his neck operation is going to be like. I was/am a bit upset by the procedure. Instead of replacing the diseased discs with the manmade kind, they are being replaced with bone grafts and he will have tiny metal plates put on to help it fuse! He will have side to side tilt motion of his head and be able to turn it, he will just not be able to bend it to look up or down! He says he can handle that...better than the pain he's in. I guess they figure he is 73 so it doesn't matter so much.
My mother also worries me. She has had many surgeries on/around her face for skin cancer. The doctor has always done a very good job and left no scarring. BUT then she showed me a place on her arm where she has had a mole for years and years. It is now turning into skin cancer. More operations. My Aunt Wilma died when she was 55 from skin cancer that had spread tumors throughout her body. She didn't look 55. Years of sun 'worship' had wrinkled and leathered her skin. I loved her. Such a GREAT sense of humor! Everyone else thought of her as a little 'touched'. My mom once told me that I remind her of her sister Wilma.
Does that mean that she thinks I'm 'touched' too?
My oldest sister Dawn stopped and we had coffee and talked. It was nice...she seemed good. The only conversations I've had with her for the past many months have been on the phone while she's drunk or getting there. It was nice to have a sober conversation with her.
Anyway, SAturday morning didn't start out so good. Migraine and the 'upset stomach'. My mother gave me something for it that knocked me out for a while. I woke up later and kinda loafed around. Then I called my sister and asked her to go out to the mall with me (there really isn't anything to do around that town). She decided she would go...after all her significant other had gone to sleep and would be out for the night (as usual) and all she was going to do was sit in front of the TV and drink.
We had fun. Joked around and went to Steak and Shake for some big a** milkshakes! They really SHOULD give us a choice for a half-size of those. One of those shakes is too much for me!
She told me on the way back to Mom's that it was the first time in a very long time that she had gotten out at night and done ANYTHING! We haven't spent any time together for years.
All in all I appreciated my quiet weekend.
Back home Troy had our kids plus their friends over Friday night...all night. He even had to cart our daughter and her friend to the school dance and back. He did a lot of cooking, too! But everyone survived.
When I got home, though, my daughter was sick. She went to school yesterday and I had to go collect her 1 1/2 later cuz she spewed. She has been in bed every since except for a quick trip to the doctor's. She has the same virus she had 2 weeks ago.
Troy is off in Michigan for the rest of the week and next week it is Florida. My heart bleeds. Nice hotel on the beach.
Oh well...this is reality. But BOY did I NEED that weekend! I didn't want to leave!
My daughter requested an apple pie. They will be sharing their pies. I am sure not everyone will be bringing in pies. 
