Title: Joe & Jo's Excellent Adventure
Category: happy
Blog Entry: Well, today has been a wonderful day! It started off with PINK anti-embolism stockings. Now I can hear you saying "why, Jo, I've never seen PINK ones before, wherever did you get them?" Well, what you do is you buy the ordinary, everyday WHITE ones, and let Joe do the laundry! He achieved this particularly lovely shade by washing them with my burgundy nightgown. I don't get bothered by stuff like this. I also don't let him off the hook. Most women would not let a man do laundry after this sort of incident. I simply dash all his hopes of that happening by exclaiming: "OH! How PRETTY!!!!" Yes, I buy white underwear, too, in hopes of being surprised by an occasional pair coming back a pretty color. I've yet to be disappointed!
After that, it was off to Jacksonville to my every-other-week check in with the doctor's office. On the way down, we got flagged over by a Florida State Police officer. As we're pulling off the road, I said to Joe "What did you do?" and he replied, "I don't know, I was just slowing down a little bit, because our exit is coming up." Now, Joe has been fighting off a cold for the last few days, and he does ATTEMPT not to give them to me, because of my severely compromised immune system, so he's been wearing a mask. (Not that it does any good, I'm already starting with a scratchy throat and a stuffed up nose...although the stuffed up nose could be from the old lady at the doctor's office who was marinating in Jean Nate, but I digress...) So we're sitting at the side of the road, and the statie walks up to the van, peeks in the back, sees the wheelchair (how could you miss it?), then to the driver's window, sees Joe with his mask on, weepy red eyes, and hears his raspy, croupy voice, and says "Uh...you can go...we didn't flag you in!" (The Hell, they didn't!--but I knew to keep my mouth shut!) Back onto the highway, and down to Jacksonville, we head.
We get to the doctor's office a mere 3 minutes before my appointment time...and as we are checking in, I see Jacqui, my chemo nurse from the Booth office, talking to the woman who makes the appointments. I say to the receptionist "What is Jacqui doing here?" The reply: "She works here, now!" YES!!! There IS a God...and he LIKES ME!!!! Jacqui is the ONLY NURSE who can get an IV in me on the first try...she knows what pre-meds to add to my "cocktail" to keep me from having headaches and reactions (Tylenol and Benadryl). And now Jacqui is working at the Beach office. Life is good!!! So when the time comes that we have to have chemo again, I know that I will be in good hands!!
Now, as you probably know, I started baking the Christmas cookies for both offices (and Joe's work) on Saturday (12 and a half dozen down, a Brazilian to go...). Now seldom do cookie batches come out even. So I had four cookies over the 12 and a half dozen that went into the freezer. Usually, I give them to Joe, as a pacifier, but Michelle had been e-mailing me the last couple of days, dropping not-so-subtle hints that she needed cookies, so she since she had actually been more "whiney" than Joe, I bagged up the four extra cookies, and took them in to her. I stapled the bag shut, and wrote her name on it, to make SURE Joe knew they were not for him. So when she came out to get me, to take me back to the exam room, I said "I brought you a little treat!" And SHE said "And I have a little treat for YOU, too!" Huh???
She made me an apron! Michelle, aside from being ARNP extraordinaire, is also a very talented embroiderer. She does all sorts of things for babies, toddlers, etc. She sells some, donates some to her Church, to FOPAF, etc. Well, she did the CUTEST apron for me in honor of my kitchen being done!!! It's Red...and it has "Josie Lynn" on it (cuz that's my name!) And it says "KISS THE COOK" with a chef's hat perched upon the "C" in "Cook". A wooden spoon under that, and then, beneath that it says, "I bake...so that I don't kill Joe!" HA HA HA HA HA HA HA (She knows me so well!) I just love it! It's SO me!
After my appointment, which went very well...it was off to get a lobster roll, at "A La Carte", where they know Joe by name! A quick trip to Sam's to stock up on Flour, Sugar, Butter, Chocolate Chips, and a few other things I need for my Holiday Baking (man, that was $60 quickly spent!!!). Now we're home, Joe is crashed in the guest room, and I'm in bed with my lap top and the dog. It's been a busy day, today. And a good one!! :-)
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