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Rosie’s Ramblings
Rosie Morgan
I am finally back writing my weekly letter ramblings for you. March was not a particularly good month for my household.
Two dogs got a full grooming, and I was required to get one medical test after another. My internet service went down March 7; finally we got Hughes Net to send a technician, and a part was replaced on the outside dish, but still no internet until the end of March.
I don’t really like modern technology; when it works, no problem, but when one depends on it and it fails, nothing can fill that gap. We also lost our land-line during storms. We upgraded to a new smartphone and find it quite a difficult chore, so we keep the land-line for a little longer.
Plus the water heater on the kitchen side of the house just stopped heating. Luckily we have a good water heater on the living/bedroom side of the old house. Not to mention all of the tree limbs that are down.
I had a polyp in my one remaining kidney, stones in bile duct, continuing stenosis in the renal artery, and several large stones in and around my gall bladder. Arrangements were made to remove the largest gall stone by endoscopy at Grandview Hospital, but that didn’t work. Since that was not successful, a different avenue of surgery is indicated.
The morning we were going to Grandview, the dogs were making all kinds of commotion in their fenced yard. A young deer had jumped over our 6-foot fence and was lying dead close to the bushes just down the back steps. Of course, we don’t know what happened; we can only guess.
Since it’s not healthy for pets to get into wild kills, we had to leave the dogs in the house while we were gone. We got home after 5 p.m., just having time to let the dogs out, and it began to pour. Ron donned his rain gear and in the dark and heavy rains went out to move the 170-pound deer.
Special belated birthday wishes to all March and early April babies, plus these: 56 year anniversary came for John and Dianne Moore of Alex City March 12 (John is Ron’s cousin); Deborah Griffin of Kellyton, her day was 16th. On the 17th we remembered the Irish and their parades, plus being the “birth” day of dear Johnnie Hayes, she was not only one of the great cooks of Kellyton, but also a special poetry writer. On the 22nd Hilda Adams, formerly the “Top Hat” in my Red Hat Chapter, now residing at Chapman’s Nursing Home.
April is known as Confederate Heritage Month, so be sure to “remember” your early forefathers, family members and their families that gave up so much and often lost everything for the cause of the “South.”
Think about how proud and loyal the people of the Ukraine must be and have proven to be, continuing to fight Russia to keep what they have worked for and improved over the years. The well-behaved children and babes that have been uprooted, while we could only watch the destruction. Makes me think of the old newsreels shown often while I was young depicting the bombing of London.
Those people were just as strong as the Ukrainians facing similar situations, but with constant bombs and digging through the rubble for life and possibly a family treasure or two. How overwhelming for Poland, but then the U.S. lets in thousands of worldwide illegals every day and gives them free travel, a place to live and free health insurance. Makes no sense at all to me. Americans just pay for it all.
Remember hearing a lot about medicines needing to come down in cost and particularly supplies for diabetics, as it’s such a common condition for older Americans, and very costly, depending on the needs of the patient.
I only know this first hand since Ron was diagnosed less than 5 years ago as a type one diabetic, which is quite unusual. When Ron graduated to the Libre 14-day reader, he was thrilled; no more sticks. Then the supplier said new federal regulations have caused new shipping dates, so he’d be without about a month. How can that be? So back to getting stuck several times a day.
We bought the test strips from Walmart at 30 for $20; when they ran out, it was back to the small locally owned pharmacy to get two boxes of 30 in each for $15 pus tax. The moral of this is that in these days when prices are up in almost everything, it pays to price-check everything you need to purchase.
Last Friday we arranged with the Elmore County shelter to adopt a farm cat. He is a sweet lovely fellow, black and white, and we call him Toby. Still working on his getting to know our pack of dogs.
Signing off for this week. Until the next, keep smiling.
