It has been awhile since I published, but I have been busy preparing for Christmas, planning my father-in-law, Bud's funeral which will be on Dec. 29th, having a breast biopsy, and getting travel shots.
Where to start...it is a good thing Beth and I made Christmas cards around Halloween, otherwise there would have been none! I did get a short newsletter out recapping the past year, so I consider the task of mailing greeting cards for the holidays a success.
On the 9th of December I had a breast biopsy done that was more traumatic than I expected. The good news is, no cancer, the bad news is really bad bruising...I mean really bad. I guess they hit a blood vessel and there was a lot of bleeding that need to be stopped with "compression." Love those medical terms! Anyway, that is behind me now and it is a good thing there was no event requiring a semi-low-cut "little black dress" this season.
On going throughout December has been the preparation and planning for Bud's funeral. With 2 days to go, I think most everything is handled that can be. This morning I need to go to the printer to get the bulletin run off for the service so I can pick it up tomorrow. Food has been ordered, songs selected, readers chosen, tribute speakers acquired, flowers ordered, ashes picked-up, guests notified, obituary placed, and we met with the pastor to plan the service. It looks like the weather will cooperate and we will have a lovely day to scatter Bud's ashes as well. All of Bud's children and all but 2 of the grandchildren will be in town. Brian and Patience came out from Chicago two days before he passed as they preferred to see him then rather than now and could only get a tiny bit of time off work. Eric and his new wife are the only ones who could not make it.
Last week Dan and I went to a medical travel agency to get our shots for our upcoming trip to Asia (Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Hong Kong). If you are planning to travel in the future, BE SURE TO ADD IN THE COST OF SHOTS. The cost of our shots is equal to one of the airfares! Dan needed Hepatitis A and B, Influenza, Japanese Encephalitis, and Typhoid Fever, along with pills for Malaria, and a Z pack for possible bacterial infection from food (AKA Travelers Diarrhea). Geez.. I thought we could just get on a plane! So he had round 1 last week, will get round 2 of a couple of them tomorrow, and in a month get the last in the series. If you were wondering, he did get a fever the next day and was super tired. I had to get just some of the injections as I had already had some of the shots since I worked in the school system. This trip is on Dan's bucket list...not my retired teacher "adventure list," but I am going along in support. Once we get there it should be just beautiful. We are going with 3 other couples. It is a part cruise and part land tour and we will be gone 3 weeks! That is the longest we have ever been gone. To think, we are taking just one medium size suitcase each...and small duffel to bring stuff back!
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