Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!  I had a pleasant one; spent it with my friend Sharon in the hospital.  Yes, she's still with us.  What a strong spirit she has!  She has been through all that with her kidneys, has had to have a net put in b/c of blood clots in her legs to prevent them from going to her heart or brain, has had a whole day of chemo and now has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer as well as the other cancers.  She's got a catheter in her  and is bleeding from the ovarian cancer but she is alert and talking and walked down the hall today!  Thank you for putting her on the eH prayer line; Sharon still needs a miracle to beat this.  All prayers are welcome.

I had signed up for a Thanksgiving basket from Oldsmar Cares before Sharon got so sick.  I now have about a 15 lb turkey in my freezer and so much food I don't know what to do with!  However, I bought two take-out meals from a local restaurant that does home-cooked food and took it down to the hospital, 25 miles away today for Thanksgiving dinner.  Sharon's best friend and neighbor, Lee, who is seeing her through this was there and she had her own tray from the hospital.  So we sat down at the foot of her bed and ate our dinners.  It was really nice, much nicer than I thought it would be.  We are really three old friends who were sharing a meal together like old times.

I just finished reading a HH Man Behind the Facade by June Francis.  It takes place in the time of Henry VIII and is about Philip Hurst, actor/playwrite/spy, and Rebecca Clifton, a former childhood friend now widow, whom each other secretly loves but has never acted on for years.  It may be b/c of what's going on in my life but I thought the story was way too busy with many different plot twists that really weren't essential to the main story line.  I had a lot of trouble following the book and was glad when I finished it (and you know how I love historicals).

Next week, I go to court for my Meeting of the Creditors as part of the Bankruptcy.  Hopefully, then this part of my year's drama will soon be put to rest.  Unfortunately, I have to go downtown Tampa to the Federal Courthouse to the Bankruptcy Court.  I hate the thought of driving there!  The meeting lasts seven minutes and no one shows up but it's federal law.  I have turned the other lawyer into the FL Bar Assoc.

Also next week, on Mon., Bay Care hospital group drops my insurance, AARPUnitedHealthcare!  I went to a seminar for Coventry Insurance, a dreaded HMO, for next year and there was a primary care doc there who said that Bay Care docs were going to have their hospital privileges revoked too.  After that, I went to my sleep apena doc and my ortho doc came in as a patient.  As we were both early, we sat out in the waiting room and chatted about the situation.  He backed up the other doc's statement and then the sleep apena doc backed both of them up.  I hope I don't get sick between Mon and Jan. 1!

Actually, I enjoyed talking to my ortho doc.  He's originally from PA and trained at Hershey Med. Center, now part of Penn State.  We have a long history together.  He was floored when he discovered that I picked him b/c of where he trained (his son is in his 3rd year there now)!  It was so informal, almost like old friends!

Well, I must go now.  I was invited to another Thanksgiving which I thought was earlier but just found out is now.  It's for my next-door neighbor, who's 90, in a nursing home and doesn't speak English.  I've spoken about her before; I gave her lunch everyday this spring until she had problems and went into the nursing home.  We've been good friends for more than 12 years even though we don't speak each other's languages.  She's from Peru.

I hope your day was great!

Trudy