Sunday, Sept 18th, 2011

Cyndi and I went over this afternoon and visited with Dad and Clara.  Clara had a great spread out on the table of sandwiches, dips, wine, and pasta salad.  We sat around the table and visited and then watched the Cowboy game.  Dad has developed a little back pain, he thinks its sciatic nerve stuff.  I think he plans on going to the Dr. to see about it.  And he's back feeling somewhat depleted on a daily basis.  I think he's thinking of driving again, since his Dr. said it would be okay.  I think that most of us are against that idea.  It's something we'll be talking to him about.  Clara does an awesome job of taxiing him around anyway.  Nice to have a chauffeur.  He ate well at lunch, and moved about fairly well.  But eventually he had to go horizontal for a few hours.  While there, I sat by his bedside and we discussed several things.  We left just after halftime of the game and that allowed us to get home to Rockwall at a reasonable hour.  He called later to make sure we made it home all right.  An 85 year old man calling his 61 year old son to make sure he made it home all right an hour's drive away.  It felt good.  BTW, we planted the seed of what to do for Thanksgiving.  We have several options that we'll be discussing here pretty quickly.  It's only a couple of months away.