1 Year Ago Today.....

1 year ago today I had the Surgery to remove a majority of my Rectum and have the Colonscopy Appliance installed. Well..tweleve months later I have come to understand and live with the Appliance being attached to my left side 24/7. Changing it at first was really frustrated until Carmen called her Dad, who has had his Appliance for a lot longer then me, and she asked him the question; How Do You Keep the Wafer attached? He proceeded to explain that he uses a hairdryer to heat up the wax ring on the back of the wafer and the Stomahesive Paste and this has worked for me too.

I went to see my Family Doctor, Dr. Steve, today for a 3 month check up and he said that I really looked good and he changed my Rx for my Arthiritis in my Left Hip, since in January the Health Care Insurance I have changes and part of this change is the Drugs are covered better if they are Generic, so I was able tot get the Rx, changed. Then he said he wants to see me in 4 months and also wants me to have a 8-12 hour Fasting Blood Test comlpeted before I come back to see him, he suggested that I get it done a week before I come back to see him. Also, I got my Flu Shot today while I was there and got that out of the way for the season. Yeah! I know I was procrastinating on getting it done as I always do and figured it would be best to get it done today.

My Mom and Eldest Sister came over today and dropped off some Precut Cookies, frosting and Sprinkles for Christmas, well I found out later that my Eldest Sister tried dropping them on my 3rd Eldest Sister earlier this week and my 3rd Eldest Sister told our Eldest that she had not enough rooom in her freezer to store them and she wasn't going to spend the entire day on Saturday Baking the Cookies. So now, the fun part comes, with me going to tell my Eldest Sister that if she wants the Cookies Baked, then she is comng over to assist in putting the Frosting and Sprinkles on them. I will not be the one doing this alone, nor will I ask Carmen to spend her time doing this, since my Sister wants it done. (Background Info: My Eldest Sister has dumped the Cookie making onto our 3rd Eldest Sister for a number of years now. Our 3rd Eldest Sister is now living in an Apartment, which has a small Kitchen to it, so this is the reason why my Sister dropped the Cookies here).

Mom and my Eldest Sister also dropped off 2 pair of Jeans, which was too short, for my B-Day coming up on Sunday, and after I tried on the one pair to prove to them that they would be too short, my Mom wasn't surprised and said "we can just return them" So, my Eldest Sister proceeded to say that we could take them back this afternoon, since I had nothing to do. Which was not too far from the facts, but I was waiting around for a Friend of Carmen's Husband to show up, he was suppose to pick up a couple of folding tables that we have, but he didn't show up today, may be Friday. :(

Ended up going to Walmart and returning the Jeans, looked for another couple of pairs, which they didn't have in the right length, on the way Home my Eldest Sister and had a conversation about going to Dinner it went something like this:

Eldest Sister: Would Ian, my son, would be interested in going out to Dinner on Friday?
Me: Why?
Eldest Sister: Becuase I was going to take you out for Dinner, for your Birthday!
Mom: Why are you worried about going out to Dinner for?
Eldest Sister: I figured that we could go out and celebrate Tim's Birthday.
Mom: I am suppose to be going out for my birthday with your 2nd Eldest Sister on Friday!
[Mom's Birthday was November 14th and my 2nd Eldest Sister had not had a chance to take Mom out.]
Eldest Sister: Then I what am I suppose to do for Dinner?
Me: Why don't we all go downtown to Speghitti Warehouse and Celebrate both Mom and I's Birthday's together?
Eldest Sister: I'm not sure, I'll have to call our Sister and find out what she's doing?

So as you can see the conversation pretty much ended with no resolution to my last question. It will be interesting to see what happens Firday afternoon and how this will play out for sure. I will be sure to update this little saga here to let everyone know what did or didn't happen.