The kids are home today.  Colton doesn't have any classes, the girls don't have to work, so I have the girls working for me and I am having them do some cleaning.  It is pretty much done.  I am not sure who is coming, but some of their friends are coming to hang out.  I don't know what they are going to be doing, maybe playing games, watching movies, maybe doing a bonfire.  Not sure.  But they are figuring out a meal right now since they will be here for awhile.  

the only thing we have left to do, is to get the laundry done.  we are trying to keep up with that, since my mom also sent her laundry over to be done.  

As for EO he went to bring Bill up to see Carol today.  I never did ask him how long he would be gone...well, Bill normally likes to get home around 5 pm or so.  Carol has been holding sort of steady.  Granted she is very thin and weak, not having that vacuum tube is more comfortable for her and having oxygen really helps her when the fluid builds up so that her breathing becomes more labored.  Plus she is on the higher pain meds for all the pain she has to deal with.  So when I say steady, I don't mean in a high functioning way, but what i mean is, her deterioration isn't as rapid as it once was.  At least that is how it seems anyways.  There is no way to know what is really going on the inside.  I remember this with my dad.  He would get worse and then hold steady for a bit, and then get worse and hold steady for a short time.  

Well, I did it.  I called and made an apt with my ENT.  I can always get in there quick.  I will see him Thursday.  I will go with EO to town and he and I will take Carol to her doc apt.  And then after we take her back and get her settled in, EO will take me over to see my ENT.  And if her apt runs long, that will be fine as he can drop me off when she is done and come back for me.  So whatever the situation, it will work out fine.  

So EO asked me the other day why I wasn't making an apt to go in.  I told him... "you know how bad you hate vomiting?  Well that is how bad I hate having to go to the doctor."  Leon will do whatever it takes not to vomit.  He hates it that much. After years and years and years of doctoring.  Most of the time, they don't have an answer so they either do nothing or say you are crazy cause they don't want to admit they don't know what to do.  Well, who wants to go and endure all they put you through, just to say there is nothing they can do.  But, Carol asked me to go in and get these masses addressed.  How can I say no.  Did I post that this time, they are on both sides?  I've only had to get the one side drained all these years, the other side has been dormant for... 15-18 years.  So I am a little confused what started this new problem.  But he will drain it and my jaw will feel better.  Then maybe I can eat food that is a little more solid.  Although, I don't mind having my meats tenderized.  

Speaking of tenderizing... The meat hammer we have, was my mom's.  She hardly ever used it.  Sometimes my dad would use it.  We got it from my mom some time after we were married.  We use it all the time.  All these years I have used it not just on meat, but when I need crackers, gram crackers, cookies... whatever broken up, it works easily.  

Time to get back to the laundry.