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Posted on Friday, August 03, 2018
Porch Railings for Daleville House
Sunday morning we met Pauline and Brent in Cave City and took their kids
with us to Daleville for another week. We stopped at the rest area just
north of Louisville for a bathroom break before driving the rest of the
way.
Steve
and his crew had made good progress on removing the wrought iron porch
railing and replacing it with a no maintenance vinyl covered railing.
They also busted the old concrete steps on the left side of the porch.
Steve had previously poured new steps on the right side and was working
on the hand rail for them.
Linda
met her brothers and visited with her Mom most days, while I stayed at
the Daleville house. Julie and Kyle didn't go the Splash Park much due
to rainy weather the first 3 days of our trip. We were able to play
basket ball and they rode bikes quite a bit. Most of the evenings were
spent watching kids movies on Netflix. Stacey and Julie were on the edge
of their seats when I snapped the picture below. Kyle setup camp each
night and put the pillows up each morning. Julie and Kyle took turns
sleeping on the pillows like it was a reward.
Before
leaving for KY on Thursday, I talked with Steve and we added building a
sidewalk from the steps to the town's sidewalk to his contract, also
installing a new storm door that I purchased. We left Daleville and
drove to King Fish on the IN side of the Ohio River for lunch, then into
KY and onto Brent's house where we dropped off Julie and Kyle. Brent
gave us 2 boxes of fresh peaches to make peach jam. Linda drove us to
the farm and we unloaded.
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2018
Stacey's Checkup
We left the farm around 8 AM and headed towards Bowling Green. We didn't get far, had to turn around and return to the farm to get the bag with Stacey's medications. We were going to her office call with Dr Zhu at Graves Gilbert Clinic and they require her medications be brought to the office visit. After picking up her pills, we went through the drive through at Hardee's and ate during the one hour and twenty minute ride. The parking lot at the clinic was crammed full and so were the hallways. I registered Stacey, then took her papers to Dr Zhu's office. We then waited about an hour before being called into the exam room. Stacey, Linda and I all waited a few minutes until Dr Zhu came into the room with a tag along Dr in training. Dr Zhu recognized Stacey and immediately started teasing her about the Pacers. Then asked us if she had any seizures since her last office visit. We answered 'no' and he relaxed and continued to talk Pacer stuff with Stacey for a few minutes. Dr Zhu turned his attention to his laptop and began asking us questions about her medications. Linda told him we had begun giving Stacey CBD oil capsules and reduced some of her seizure meds. Dr Zhu asked how that had affected Stacey. We explained that it seemed to work well and helped Stacey think more clear. Dr Zhu was OK with that, but could not legally tell us to give Stacey CBD oil. He told us of another patient he had treated and could not control his seizures. Then one office visit the guy reported he hadn't had any seizure and that smoking marijuana had stopped them. We asked if we should continue reducing Stacey's medications. Dr Zhu said that he could not legally recommend that, but if we did, we should do it a certain way, which he described in detail. Everyone in the room understood that he liked what we were doing but was unable to say so because CBD oil is not approved for seizure control by the FDA. It was his way of letting us know to keep doing what Stacey needed. We all laughed and Dr Zhu shook hands with us and said to come back in one year unless we needed to see him sooner.
Posted on Monday, August 27, 2018
Porch Railing Done
Tuesday morning, we headed to Daleville and when we arrived, Steve had
the porch railing installed and looking good. The sidewalk was also
finished.
When
Linda & Stacey went to see Nana, I remained at the house and assembled 3
of the 4 lawn chairs we bought at TSC. I used the fold down back seats
on the golf cart as a work bench. I also purchased a counter top at
Menard's for the second hand cabinets I had installed the last time we
were in IN.
Steve
had installed the new storm door we bought, I added a new porch light
and Linda set 2 of the new chairs on the front porch. I disassembled a
small table with a frosted glass top, sanded & painted it a gray color
for the porch. I checked the size of the garage by parking the 2 trucks
and our golf cart inside. They all fit, but it was fairly tight.
Stacey
and I purchased fourteen 2 by 4s and I built a work bench with storage
underneath. Two of the new chairs are sitting in front of the bench in
the picture below.
Linda
brought Nana back to the Daleville house and Shelly dropped by to give
us some tomatoes from Anita's garden and say thanks for us bringing her
a few paw paws. The next day we picked up Reba again and went to Camack
Station for ice cream.
After
a week in IN, we packed up the truck, closed the house and left for home
about 10 Monday morning.
