A Full & Interesting Week

We had quite an interesting week this passed week. Sunday, Téa and the children went to church with us and then we met at the shelter by Falls Valley School for dinner. We took crockpot roast beef with potatoes and carrots, a Jell-o salad, lemonade and butter & apricot jam for rolls that Téa brought. She also brought the cookies for dessert and the plates, cups, utensils and napkins. The children played on the toys there at the school for a while. It was very enjoyable being there with them. Jennifer Baisden, Duncan’s primary teacher, came up to Téa after RS and told her that she really enjoyed having Duncan in her and her husband’s primary class. He asked how old their baby was and told them all about Ephraim. It turns out that their baby will be a year old a week before Duncan’s 9th birthday. He didn’t mention that. Just told them when Ephraim would be a year old on August 26th. I started putting antibiotic drops in my right eye this day in anticipation of my surgery on Wednesday. I wore my contact to church but left it out the rest of the day because I need to put them in four times each day.

On Monday I went to Pilates and then my water class. I told Yvonne that I wouldn’t be there Wednesday or Friday because of the my cataract surgery on Wednesday and a Funeral on Friday. She told me that she would call and put my name on the prayer roll of the temple for me. She is very sweet. She is a very little lady who wouldn’t weigh 90 lbs. soaking wet and has difficulty getting up the steps of the warm pool and Apple Athletic Club so I help her. That’s why I wanted her to know that I wouldn’t be there those two days.

Tuesday we went to our walking class. We were to walk the track at IF High School but they had just resurfaced it in anticipation of school starting tomorrow. So we walked around the outside fence around the track which was a little bigger than the track itself. I went around seven times. I figure I went at least two miles that day. The rest of the day was just laid back. I worked on Abbie’s I’m a Child of God plaque. I’m making good headway on it. I should be able to have it done by her 1st birthday.

Wednesday, I was going to go to the 10:00 water aerobics class but I didn’t wake up soon enough. I had been awake earlier in the wee hours of the morning and then read for 45 minutes or so then went back to sleep. I was to be at the surgery center by 2:00pm for my cataract surgery on my right eye. The surgery went very smoothly. Like Dr. Affleck said my vision was kind of milky until Thursday morning. Then things are so much brighter with my right eye! I need to wear sunglasses now because things are so bright now. I just took it easy the rest of th day. I couldn’t see to embroidery nor read so I just watched TV. The dialation of my right eye didn’t really leave completely until Friday morning.

We went back to see Dr. Affleck Thursday morning so he could look at my eye and see how I was healing. He said I was doing great. My vision was already 20/40 without correction. He said that that would improve as the swelling went down. He said I would be 20/20 for distance easily but would most probably need to wear reading glasses in order to read or see anything up close. I was to have a massage Thursday afternoon but Shelley called that morning to change it because they are doing things and getting ready to move into their new home. So we went to the temple. We’ve been going once a week since it reopened in July. I noticed on the way to the temple that I was able to read the street signs! I haven’t been able to until we were practically on top of them. It’s great!

Friday we went to Virgean Frederickson’s funeral. She had had back surgery in April while we were in Phoenix for Easter. She arrested either on the table or shortly after and was never quite the same since. She had to learn to talk and walk again and do everything else too. She was in intensive care for a month or six weeks initially and eventually went to a rehab center in Bountiful. She was just about ready to walk again when she had a bad turn for the worse and ended up in intensive care again and died there on August 11. She was one special lady. A lot of fun to be around. She would have been 61 this coming Tuesday. A relative young age for this day and age. It was the largest funeral that I have attended. There were five or six rows back into the cultural hall after the rows in the over flow area. I’m glad that we went.

Afterwards we met Téa and the children at Arctic Circle for lunch at 2:00. we treated. It was fun watching the children play. I enjoy watching Ephraim do his raspberries. I got a kick out of Elena as she came down the slide. The slide is plastic and due to static electricity her hair was sticking out all over her head. I got a couple of pictures of it that shows it when they are enlarged. We left at 4:00 to go to the temple Visitor’s Center and see the Joseph Smith Film, Prophet of the Restoration. None of us had seen it yet. It was very well done. The characters were very well cast. It reaffirmed to me that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and that he did restore the true church of Jesus Christ. It was a tear jerker as they say. I held Ephraim most of the time thro’ it. He went to sleep right after the “first vision”. Janice Harrop and her husband were two of the missionaries there. She taught one of my nursing classes my first year in nursing. It was good to see her again. We took some pictures there on the temple grounds in front of the beautiful flowers. We told them good bye because they were leaving the next day for Utah and then Denver and then home. I have very much enjoyed our interaction with them. They are growing so quickly. They are all very loving.

Yesterday was kind of laid back again. I called my sister-in-law Jewel and talked to her about my surgery. She is having her first eye done this Tuesday and the other one done next week. I tho’t it might help her to talk to someone first hand who had just gone thro’ it. I told her that she would love it. It was good talking to her. We talked about 1 ½ hours.

Today we learned that we will be getting a new bishopric next week. As I looked around to see who it may be, I tho’t or James Baisdon and Greg Johnson. Of course the Lord may have other ideas. Whom ever it is they will be called of God and I will sustain them. Paul Chugg may also be in the new bishopric too. He has only been in the present bishopric for a few months. Time will tell. I’ll report next week who it is.