Estherfromjerusalem
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Hello everyone, I haven't posted about us for a long time. difficult child is still living with us. He is working selling motorbikes, goes to work every day and doesn't get home until after 7 in the evening. Waking him up is a pain, but then once he leaves there is peace and quiet for the whole day. Evenings -- well, often he goes out, but if he's at home, things aren't as bad as they used to be, although it is still better without him around . . .
My great news is that my granddaughter, who got married last summer, is expecting a baby, so my husband and I are on the way to becoming great-grandparents. Truthfully, I have mixed feelings about it. Of course I am thrilled to bits. We will become a four-generation family which will be amazing for me -- I come from a two-generation family (only my parents and we three sisters, all the grandparents were killed in Europe in the Holocaust), so it will be truly meaningful to be four generations!
This week I am going to have another angioplasty. For a while I was getting a funny feeling high in my chest when I walked or made any aerobic effort, so I made an appointment with my cardiologist. She sent me to do a SPECT test which is a combination of stress test and MRI with radioactive stuff -- anyway, the cardiologist phoned me two days later and told me I have to have the angio and it will be on Wednesday. I'm not scared -- it's not the first time. I already have two stents in my heart. I am a walking advertisement for the wonders of modern medicine! I promise to get on the computer on Thursday evening when I should be back at home.
Everything else with my family is fine. difficult child is behaving a little bit nicer because of the upcoming angioplasty. This evening he took laundry off the line and hung out some more -- very nice!
Other than that -- I am fat, and I am still smoking. I will try not to smoke after the angio -- we'll see how long that will last. Last time it was three months. I'll give it another try.
I apologise -- this was supposed to be a "short" update -- oh well, never mind.
Love, Esther
My great news is that my granddaughter, who got married last summer, is expecting a baby, so my husband and I are on the way to becoming great-grandparents. Truthfully, I have mixed feelings about it. Of course I am thrilled to bits. We will become a four-generation family which will be amazing for me -- I come from a two-generation family (only my parents and we three sisters, all the grandparents were killed in Europe in the Holocaust), so it will be truly meaningful to be four generations!
This week I am going to have another angioplasty. For a while I was getting a funny feeling high in my chest when I walked or made any aerobic effort, so I made an appointment with my cardiologist. She sent me to do a SPECT test which is a combination of stress test and MRI with radioactive stuff -- anyway, the cardiologist phoned me two days later and told me I have to have the angio and it will be on Wednesday. I'm not scared -- it's not the first time. I already have two stents in my heart. I am a walking advertisement for the wonders of modern medicine! I promise to get on the computer on Thursday evening when I should be back at home.
Everything else with my family is fine. difficult child is behaving a little bit nicer because of the upcoming angioplasty. This evening he took laundry off the line and hung out some more -- very nice!
Other than that -- I am fat, and I am still smoking. I will try not to smoke after the angio -- we'll see how long that will last. Last time it was three months. I'll give it another try.
I apologise -- this was supposed to be a "short" update -- oh well, never mind.
Love, Esther