What We are Up To

It's been a busy couple of weeks at the Elfreich house. We are a little out of the loop with nothing real exciting to blog about. Steve had an arthroscopic knee scope surgery the day before Thanksgiving. That was supposed to be a quick fix for his pain, instead it turned into a freak disaster. If something weird is going to happen, it is going to happen to us. Evidently, they hit a vessel during Steve's surgery while the tourniquet was up. The knee is sutured and dressings applied before the tourniquet comes down. So, they had no way of knowing that he had a slow bleeder. That was Wednesday. By Friday morning, his knee was the size of a cantaloupe, he couldn't bend it, and could barely walk. It finally stopped bleeding early in the morning Saturday. Then the knee had to take a few days and absorb all the blood. This put him painfully behind on recovery about a week. Now, he is doing much much better and is back on the move. He hopes to return to full work duty in a week. Although, it will take about 6 weeks before he can kneel on his knee.

Conner has been battling sickness for about 8 weeks. He was diagnosed with a Sinus Infection and Bronchitis on yesterdat for the THIRD time in these 8 weeks. Yes. The THIRD time. So, he is on his third round of antibiotics and hopefully, they kick it in the @#$ this time. He is ready to get back to good health, just in time for Christmas. Steve took him to the pediatrician yesterday. He ordered a chest x-ray and blood work to rule out pneumonia. Conner was a perfect patient. They drew his blood with a needle and vial just like for you or me and he never cried once. Then, he held his arms above his head and held real still while they took a chest x-ray. What a trooper.

Steve and I have also passed the crud around for the last 8 weeks. We too, are starting antibiotics today and hopefully the 3 of us will get well all about the same time and stay there.

Our Christmas decorations are up, the presents are bought and wrapped, and Christmas cards will be in the mail before Christmas and maybe a few days FASHIONABLY late. Don't think you have been left off our list, I am just running behind on those as usual.

We are headed to Nashville on Friday as we do every December. I have my annual Doctors appointment at Vanderbilt University. It always falls about this time each year. We always make a small trip out of it to see what Nashville has to offer at Christmas. This year, we won't be doing any shopping at Opry Mills because of the flood. We will visit the Opryland hotel,  Ice, The new SNOW exhibit, and of Course Bass Pro Shop which is back open. We are looking forward to the exciting weekend. Just wish it was going to be warmer.

We hope all of you are enjoying the Christmas season and not letting the Idiot drivers I saw out this afternoon get you down.  Why does everyone's driving get really crappy this time of year?  Stay warm and enjoy the season.