In the wake of a seeming disaster during Mother’s knee difficulty I found myself guilty over the fact that we did not pursue her surgery in August.  Yet during our visit last week we learned that as of February first her Blue Cross and Shield will cover Dr. Felix. What does that mean?  It means we no longer have to pay the staggering $5000 plus.  What else does that mean?  Well since we refinanced the house for the surgery, we can now finish the garage, build a loft, add landscaping and this property’s worth will sky rocket.  Plus we’ll have more room for all our crap. :-p

I love Dr. Swartz now and I know he likes us and he views us as intelligent women.  I posed the question of Pro Bono work possibly for WLS surgery.  Instead of dismissing me he talked candidly and as an equal to me.  He also made a lot of good points that as a civilian I never would have considered, but I really appreciated his explanations and reasons against it.

Poor Mom, she’s bored to tears.  If you can imagine having to rest all day for past three weeks, well she’s about to pull her hair out. 

Last night I had the privilege of experiencing my first ever Chinese fire drill.  It was Mother’s birthday and she wanted Chinese food, naturally we opted for Chicken Fried Panda.  We walk inside and everything is completely foreign and looking rather fast paced.  Dad turns to me and says, "Ok you know what to do?" 

"Huh? I never been here before."  We had this type of food before but he was under the misconception that I had frequented this place.  So I stumble around, looking frantically at the menu and say, "Ummm, I guess we want three of the three entrée dinners?"  The lil guy is getting all the boxes ready and asks what entrees you want.  By this time another more forceful gal found me and started demanding to know my entrees – with a bit of drool slipping from my mouth I managed to pick some out.  Then suddenly I found myself standing back a ways.  
I asked Russ, "Ummm are we done yet?"  
"No that other guy is working on the vegetables, plus we have to get our other two dinners."  
"Ummm, I think that other gal did it."  
"Are you sure?"  
"I don’t even know anymore."  Then I start to giggle and told him, "Do you realize I’ve just experienced my first ever Chinese fire drill?"