December 23; — one more day until Christmas Eve.  With Christmas Eve comes Ms. Kate’s 76th birthday!!! I have an Angel Food cake in the oven right now for her. I usually bake her an Angel Food cake, and there is a story to go with that. Many years ago I offered to bake her a cake for her birthday and she said she wanted an Angel Food cake. Well, my only experience with angel food cakes was when my mother made the “back in the day”. I guess back then they had a tendency to “fall” so we didn’t dare make any heavy steps or whatever or we would catch the dickens from my mother. So, I told Kate there was no way I could make an Angel Food cake. She looked me in the face and said “You can’t add a cup of water to a cake mix and bake it???”  Yeh, I felt pretty dumb. 

Yesterday was a fantastic day at the surgeon’s appointment.  We had the CT scan the day before and Dr. Roberts had the results of that. He was very pleased with what he saw. He said the infection was mostly gone and was ready to remove the drain tube from her which was fantastic. And just like that he took it out. She felt so relieved having that thing out. So first time in four weeks we didn’t have to do a flush last night. And for the first time in four weeks she was able to sleep on her left side without the drain hurting her. 

She goes back to she the surgeon on the 19th of January and then he will do her surgery two weeks after that. We appear to be coming to a close of this saga. Hopefully that will be the end of all of this drama and her life can get back to normal. She will be well, I will be retired —- watch out world!!! 

Julie is here and Jim and the pups are coming a little later. She is going to get busy shortly preparing the turkey for our dinner. 

Have a wonderful day. Peace.