Here I am in At the foot of the hill

I haven’t been away. Just not been getting into the writing mode…
Papa and I have been doing the doctor appointments thing, with both of us needing prescriptions rewritten and new (old age) problems coming up. For example, he saw the dermatologist and she found two or three ugly places that she sheared off for biopsy. Two were positive. One was Basel (sp?) Cell and the other something I’d never heard of and can’t remember what she called it. The Basel had to be extracted, so we went yesterday and got that done. Hoping they got all of it. Only pathology will tell and that might take up to two weeks. The other we will treat with a salve that will slowly burn it away…I know....Ugly thought. Anyhow, he seems fine but I’m babying him…he deserves to be babied.

He also saw an orthopedist a couple of weeks ago. This doctor said he has arthritis in both knees and was surprised that Papa was having all his pain in the left because the right one is in much worse shape…but gave him a cortisone shot in the left one. It worked wonders and his knee pain is gone (for now). Doc said the shot would wear off and he’d probably need to get a shot every two or three months as long as it works and then would need knee replacement surgery.

As for me, I’m fine. Still trying hard to get out and walk along the lake (almost) every morning. If I don’t make it out there before seven a.m. I will probably not make it. A couple of those days this week… Bad EM. And then, when I get back up here to my “aerie” I pour myself a cuppa and slip out onto the deck and watch all those other folks walking, jogging, skating, biking along the path. Love the beautiful summer mornings we have here on the Front Range.

Still playing lots of Bridge…even more now. Three women here in my building are giving me lessons and we have a session whenever we can find an afternoon that we can all make it… (One of us seems to have some kind of doctor appointment every week or we’d probably get the cards out more often than we do.) Goes with the lifestyle here in our “retirement community”.

Oh, Papa and I joined the group who went in our bus down to the Rockies (baseball) game a couple of weeks ago. Our team did win that game…Yea! And then a couple of days later our Activities Director took a dozen of us (again on the bus) to Colorado Springs where we climbed on the “Cog Railroad” and rode to the top of Pike’s Peak… one of really high mountains in Colorado. It was cold up there and there was snow on the ground and in the air on top, but what a fantastic view!!! Even saw some mountain goats on the way. There is always something going on here. If folks get bored it’s their own fault.

Anyhow: there’s a couple things I can check off my bucket list.