Good Saturday morning! We've had a few days of beautiful sunshine! And here are some pictures to prove it! This first one is near Anthony and Lori's place late afternoon yesterday.
This is their frozen, snow-covered pond.
Wednesday was the day of our granddaughter's V'anni's surgery (see previous post if you missed that.) Here's an adorable picture Lauren posted when they got to Hershey Medical Center that morning.
It was a long, very difficult day. They needed to do a COVID test on V'anni first, and then she and Lauren had to be in an quarantine room to wait for surgery. I think that was around 11:00 am. V'anni (18 months old) had to fast before the surgery. The 1:30 surgery time came and went. Lauren did not want to eat or drink anything in front of V'anni, so there they waited and waited and waited. Finally, two hours late, they took V'anni for surgery. By that time Lauren was sick on the stomach from stress and couldn't eat anyway. I was praying and praying from here, feeling so helpless to be of any physical help. When the surgery was over they said they had had to go deeper than expected to get all of the tumor out, and her incision was bigger than anticipated. But she was in good spirits! Frank's co-worker dropped him off at the hospital on their way back from a job, so Frank was able to drive Lauren and V'anni home. Now they await the pathology report. And we still pray! (And again, I ask you to please not comment on FB about V'anni. Thanks!)
And speaking of prayers, I was so delighted to read the following message from my sister Betty on our sibling Facebook page on Thursday evening!! Thank you to all of you who had been praying for her!
“Good evening! I just wanted to let you all know that I am doing so much better. Yesterday and today I started feeling much more like myself, able to get my breath when I’m doing things, not so fatigued. Your prayers meant the world to me and I’m so fortunate to be healing from this awful virus. I went to the doctor yesterday and my oxygen level was at 97, which was excellent! I’m definitely healing from the pneumonia. My lungs sounded good. I still get fatigued but on my way to good health. Thank you for supporting me through this!”
Thank you, Lord!!
On a very different note, we got a sad message from my cousin Steve Myers yesterday morning. Just six day prior we had found out that his wife Jane had COVID and had ended up in the hospital on a ventilator. His message yesterday morning was that she has died and he is heartbroken. Ugh! I hate this so bad. Just about exactly two years ago my sister Mary Ellen and my sister-in-law Nancy hosted a girl cousin gathering, and Jane was there. Some of us had not known her well before that, but we had such a wonderful time together, and we Facebook friended each other. She has frequently commented on pictures, etc. Here's a picture of that gathering two years ago. Jane is the one to my left (light blue shirt and scarf.)
Yesterday Dick and I had our appointments for our first COVID vaccine! We had to go to Lewistown, about 45 minutes from here. There was a big white tent set up in front of the hospital, and it was like a well-oiled machine. Everything was so well organized. I took this shot from the "waiting room." That's where we sat for fifteen minutes afterward to make sure we had no reaction. There was a constant flow in and out of people getting their vaccine. Most of us were "of a certain age," haha!
And here we were afterward! We got the Moderna vaccine, so our next appointment is in exactly four weeks.
It was a beautiful drive yesterday!
A few days ago I got a puzzle for Dick to work on in the evenings. The card table is really too small. We should have expanded the dining room table for this project. (My projects have kind of taken over that table, lol!) But he's gittin' er done!
His first car was a Mustang, so I knew he would love this one. Here's how it looked before he went to bed last evening.
3 comments:
Hi Jean. I love your snowy pictures, but am so glad you are now having some sunny days. So sad about your cousin dying of Covid. My aunt passed with Covid two weeks ago today. I am so glad that you and your husband got the first vaccine. I am a teacher so I got the first vaccine in January and am getting my second does this coming Friday. I also got Moderna. Here in Utah, my husband's age group will be eligible March 1, so we are looking forward to him getting the vaccine ASAP after March. I will pray for your sweet V'anni. She is so cute. I love the puzzle. My husband is a Mustang guy too and we have had several Mustangs over the years. Hope you have a great weekend. Stay well.
I know you will be loving on that baby! Glad they were able to fly up to see everyone! I am also glad you two got your vaccine! We also got Moderna. I read that we are 76% protected with the first shot and will be 95% protected after the second. Like you, we feel blessed to have avoided it over the last year and now have the vaccine on board.
We have been under a winter storm warning for the past 3 days. Very cold and so much snow! However, the sun came out for a brief few moments this afternoon and it looked so pretty.
I'm so thankful to read that post from Betty and am praying for V'anni. Hard for one so small to go through that. And so sorry to hear about your cousins wife.
We did the Moderna vaccine at work. Just a warning - everyone did fine with the first shot, many got quite sick with the second one. We had a lot of call ins and several residents got quite sick, staff just felt like they had the flu - temps, vomiting... So don't be surprised if you have a yucky day or two the second time around. :( Then again - maybe you'll be in the group with no issues.
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