PIC

So I saw my new eye specialist. He seems fine. Knows his stuff. He explained what happened to my eye. I had some kind of inflammation that caused scarring. That allowed the abnormal blood vessels to grow and leak. Okay so there is a technical name for it and all I could remember was PIC. Tried to look it up but haven't had much luck yet. He said PIC seems to mostly happen to women in their 40's. Yeehaw for me. And they have no idea why or what causes it. And to top it off he said the inflammation could return at any time. More yeehaws for me. His goal is to wean me off the Avastin. He said I have done remarkably well. So we are stretching out my next appt. to 13 weeks. Guess that will be telling. I recurred at 13 weeks the last time we tried no medication. He seems hopeful though since that was at the beginning of treatment and I have two years of it now. We shall see and only time will tell. Oh and he also told me that Dr. Lemley was also working towards this same goal, so I felt better.

Freefalling

Still. No net, no parachute. Just falling. Waiting and waiting to see how the landing is going to be.

Technology Challenged

So I had my eye dr. appt. last Friday, and that is a whole different post. Anyway while sitting in the waiting room I was watching a man read a kindle. I, being technology challenged, don't have a cell phone, a lap top or a kindle. Mostly I am always the youngest person in the waiting room. So I'm looking around and there are three oldsters with kindles. They are so far beyond me in technology. I still like books, but those kindles are growing on me when I realized they are book size. But for now I'll stay in my safe little world and read books, talk on land lines and give up my dream of an ipad.

The Play

Elizabeth and I had tickets to go see a play last Saturday. Audrie got dropped off at her Grandma Nita's house and we were off. We parked in the parking lot and then walked down to the Pearl District to find some lunch. We ate at the Deschutes BrewPub. Yuppie food, but we managed to find something to eat there. Then we hiked back up to the Northwest Cultural Building. We saw "Robin Hood" in a new adaptation. It was very good and pretty funny. Elizabeth liked it also. It was her first real play.

And That Shoe Keeps Dropping

Life gets very quiet once in awhile. And when it does that I am always looking for that other shoe to drop. But Myk is incarcerated so it stays quiet. Didn't expect the calm to vanish because of Dave. But it did. Dave has decided that he no longer wanted to travel. He no longer wanted to "put up with the bullshit at ADS" and so he made it so he is unemployed. He went to Quebec on Tuesday and was home on Thursday. No income, no health insurance. But hey it is no big deal. Basically that is the attitude that was shown here. Okay so now we put it back together after that shoe stomped on it as it fell. Life. And we'll add Myk back into the mix in 18 days.
Ashlie moved on. We knew that was coming. Took everyday that it didn't as a gratitude day. Loved having a babysitter on the premises. Life is going to get interesting.

12

Elizabeth had her birthday on Saturday. She is now 12 years-old. We had family dinner for her Sunday. She picked out the menu and the cake when we had Elizabeth day. So Papa got to bbq hamburgers and we had white cake with chocolate frosting and chocolate ice cream.

Since she is at an age where she has way too many material items we gave her play tickets. So she and I will go see "Robin Hood" next weekend in Portland. Audrie will go spend the day with her Grandma Nita since babies aren't really conductive to plays. Grammy gave her a gift card to pick out her own CD. Elizabeth had rattled off a list of ones that she wanted, but we can never remember so now she can pick her own. :)

Weekend

Started the weekend with my usual lunch date with friends. From there Audrie and I went and visited Myk. She was so loving to him this time it was amazing. They got to spend some real quality time together. He left the diaper to me, but I told him in 38 days it would be his turn. We also discovered she has tooth number 11.
Saturday we lazed around the house a bit and then went out for dinner with David and Brendan and their friend. Had a blast and got home after nine. David has gossip for me so we are planning another get together real soon.
Sunday we got a wild hair and drove up to Longview after cleaning my mom's house. Aunt Cris wasn't home, so we just left her gifts by the door. Ended up back at Ridgefield Junction for lunch. Had omelets. Audrie likes toast. It was a very nice weekend indeed. :)