Saturday, July 27, 2019

The Plagues

It's been a crazy week around here, more akin to the biblical plagues kind of crazy than a fun sort of crazy.

  • First, hubby woke up with chest pain so off we went again to the hospital (last time this happened they did some tests and came up with nothing so they sent him home).  This time they did tests and the tests came out fine but he was still clutching his chest.  His cardiologist came in, took one look at him, and whisked him off to the cardiac cath lab and placed another stent in his heart which made him feel a lot better.  A day later and we were back home.
  • A couple days later, his sister came to visit and she put something in the microwave in her room then came downstairs to watch TV with us.  A half hour later we smelled smoke, the fire alarms started going off, and we went upstairs to find a small, smoldering fire and lots of smoke.  We put the fire out and I cleaned everything but one of the guest rooms still smells like we had a bonfire in there.  
  • For the first time since we moved to Las Vegas we are having a plague, not of locusts, but of grasshoppers.  I've never actually seen a grasshopper here but apparently they have arrived in force.  Ick.
  • There have been a few other things--like the notary who didn't notarize a paper correctly so I was running back and forth across town for a half a day, its been 110 degrees here so no outdoor activities, and my relatives are all in some sort of legal kerfuffle and everyone keeps contacting me to pick a side (no thanks, I don't speak to them on a good day so I told everyone to stop calling me since I want no part of anything any of them are doing).
Hopefully next week will be better...

6 comments:

  1. Thank goodness for the cardiologist. What did your guest put in the microwave--paper? That is scary. Ask people and you may find the grasshoppers come in cycles. We have 17-year locusts. Better luck next week.

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    1. She wrapped a microwavable heat pack in a towel and the towel caught on fire! eekkk Also, as for locusts, double eeek....those things look bigger than grasshoppers!

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  2. I read about the grasshoppers and wondered if you were affected. Oh my! They have super giant grasshoppers here in Alabama. Horrifying! Glad your hubby got treated for his chest pain. That must have been so scary. Glad he is back home and feeling better.

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    1. Yep was pretty scared! But he is feeling much better now. I've seen the flying creatures in the deep south--they are way bigger than what we have here (and one of the reasons we ruled out retiring to Florida!).

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  3. I hope your husband feels better. Has his cardiologist ever recommended cardiac rehab? Mary Ann

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    1. Thanks he is feeling much better. His cardiologist recommends he eats meat for three meals a day...I don't think he has read a cardiac study in several decades :(

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