Trip to the eye doctor...

Today I had my annual appointment with the eye doctor which typically is very uneventful. However...today's trip was more interesting than most or I guess that I should say after the appointment was more eventful than most.

I went in at 10:00 for my appointment and the doctor did a preliminary exam with my contacts in then with them out and then at about 10:30 he put the eye drops in to dilate my pupils so that he could do the exam where they shine the really bright light in your eye and look at all the insides to see how healthy (or not) your eyes are. Well our doctor has a tendency to talk to himself while he's doing your exam so some times it's hard tell whether he's talking to you or himself. In this case I guess he was talking to me but I wasn't sure and I wasn't paying close enough attention. He said something about dilating my eyes and that every two years they do the "super dilation" but then he went on to talk about when I last had that done and if he thought he should wait until next time or do it this time and anyway you get the gist of why I wasn't listening as carefully as I should have. It turns out that he decided to do the "super dilation" I didn't realize this until he had already put the drops in my eyes. So of course the exam went fine until I went to leave and he hands me my prescriptions and is pointing something out on them and I look at him and say "I can't read that". He replies "Oh well that will wear off in a few hours". A FEW HOURS!!! I think. Then he says "yeah it's like having night vision and the close up stuff will be fuzzy but it will wear off after a while."

Great I think I'm supposed to meet my mom at the Super Wal-Mart in 15 minutes. So I thank the doctor and head out to my car where I immediately put on my sunglasses, even though it's overcast outside. I decide I can see well enough to drive, but I can't really clearly see the clock on my dashboard or my speedometer. So I head for Wal-Mart and things are pretty uneventful until I arrive. I get there and park and realize that I had told my mom that I would call her when I got there and we could meet up and do our shopping. Unfortunately I realize I can't read ANYTHING on my phone, so how am I going to call her??? I think well maybe I can call Scott because I have the Fave 5 on T-mobile and I can just push one button to reach him, but then realize that he doesn't have the number of the cell phone she is carrying. So I sit there trying to figure out what to do. I pushed a button on my phone to see if I could get to my phone book and try to scroll through it only to once again be frustrated that I can't read anything.

Well at this point I'm about to panic a bit and I look up and right outside my door is the Administrative Deacon from our church, Kevin, and his son. I open my door and don't even say hi I say "God sent you hear to help me!!" He kind of looks at me like that is one of the strangest greeting anyone has given me. (It's a good thing that he works with me on a daily basis or he probably would have really wondered about me. He already knows I'm a bit crazy anyway).

Ok so he says "why"? So I proceed to explain my eye doctor and the drops and how I can't see my mom's number and ask him to help me. He takes the phone and says "this says do you want to delete your contacts". To which of course I reply "NO". Then his wife walks up with their baby and I of course have to explain the whole story again. So by this time Kevin has found my phone book and proceeds to scroll through everyone until he gets to the number that I need.

They then proceed into the store and I call my mom. She meets me at the door and I pull out my list only to realize that I can't read it so we proceed to do our shopping with Mom trying to read my chicken scratch of a list and me picking things up and asking her what the label says. I'm sure that we must have made quite the spectacle or at least provided some entertainment for anyone watching.

It was quite the adventure, or not.

By the way the drops finally fully wore off at around 5:00 tonight.

Moral of the story....make sure if the doctor is going to "super dilate" your eyes that you don't have to do anything where you have to see close up or small things at least for several hours afterward. :)

Bummer & Blessing

The Bummer..... is that this week Carol (Scott's sister) came down with shingles. Which is very painful and means that she spent her birthday not feeling well. Which is continuing on. Her daughter Chris had planned a great night out for them on Saturday to celebrate. They were supposed to go out to dinner and then to the Anita Renfroe concert. But Carol wasn't able to go so Chris sent out an e-mail to see if someone else would be interested in going with her. Scott e-mailed her back but she had already found someone to go in Carol's stead.
But on Saturday Chris had a crazy day and decided that she wanted to stay home that evening so she called and offered her ticket to me.

The Blessing...Anita Renfroe is hilarious! She is the one that is performing "Mom Sense" if you haven't seen it click on the link for Teresa's favorite video.
She performed several songs as well as having her son there, who performed two songs that he wrote and recorded.

We thoroughly enjoyed it but both Laurece and I felt bad that Carol & Chris missed it.
Thanks Chris for your generosity!!!

These first 3 pictures are ones that were up on the screens at the beginning of the show.

This is a picture of Laurece and I.

And last but not least Anita Renfroe. (sorry it's a little blurry I wasn't able to get any more of her because the ushers came and told the lady in front of me to put her camera away so I didn't get mine out again).

Trip Recap

Ok so here are just a few of the hundreds of pictures that we took on our trip....

Here's Gabby in prison at the Yuma Prison

This is what one of the cell's looked like and yes they actually would put 6 people in here.

We went with Daryl & Linda to Lutes a restaurant in Old Yuma with more memorabilia on the walls to look at then you would ever have time to look at.

Once we got to Barb & Jerry's we had a get together with Barb's sister Diselle (who isn't in this picture since she took it), her daughters and Joan & Wes. It was great to see all of them again.

On Monday we went on a 4 hour train ride on the Verde Canyon railroad. It was a lot of fun and we saw a lot of beautiful area as well as a few different kids of wildlife.

On Tuesday the girls went and got pedicures and manicures.

We decided not to go to Bryce canyon due to snow there and stayed an extra day so that Scott could go golfing. He hasn't gone since his surgery in 2002. He and Jerry had a good time.

We found an In-N-Out to eat at before we left California.

Then of course we drove by Mt. Shasta both on the way down and on the way home. It was a beautiful part of our drive.

On The Road

Well we left home a week ago today on our vacation. Here's a brief recap of what's been going on...

Scott started the vacation out with a sinus infection :( He was quite miserable and we weren't sure if we were even going to continue on but we decided to go ahead and see how things went.

Sunday afternoon we drove until we arrived in Grant's Pass Oregon then Monday we drove until we came to Kettleman CA (south of Sacramento). Both nights were light on sleep between the hotel rooms and Scott being up most of the night coughing. We arrived in Yuma at Teresa's Dad's on Tuesday afternoon. Where a VERY yummy Prime Rib dinner awaited us.

Scott was able to get an antibiotic and started on it that night and has improved continually. (He's pretty much back to normal! Yippee!). Teresa, however came down with it on Tuesday night, so then we were both hacking and coughing all night. She was able to get on medication on Wednesday.

While in Yuma we went to the In & Out Burger, Gabby swam and went to the swap meet twice with Linda and then we went to the old Yuma Prison on Friday.

Then Saturday after a very yummy breakfast of biscuits and gravy at the club house where Daryl and Linda live. After that we headed to Chandler to Teresa's mom's.

We had a family get together here tonight which was a lot of fun.

I'll post pictures as soon as I am able to connect to the internet from my computer.