I thought I was losing my mind. I had prepared a draft for my Saturday post, and when I looked it wasn't there. Turned out it has posted as a second entry for Friday. Oh well.

I took Krl to see Dr. Mackie yesterday. I am so thankful we have him. When you talk he actually listens, and hears what you say.

He determined Krl has a severe sinus infection, along with ear infections. They drew some blood and ran a bevy of tests. He said as difficult as it is to get a vein on Krl, when Buffy got one he wanted to take full advantage of her luck. By the way, I think Buffy, the little nurse is about as good as I have ever seen at drawing blood. Usually they are crying and complaining that Krl's veins roll, then they are chasing it with the needle inserted and Krl is about to come off the wall. Krl told Buffy what to expect, to use a baby needle, and told her where they had the best luck in the past. Two minutes later Buffy left with her viles of blood for testing. In a few minutes, Buffy returned with a BIG shot of rosephen (sp?). Dr. Mackie gave her a prescription for an antibiotic to chase it.

Krl's blood tests came back showing elevated liver and kidney numbers, but Dr. Mackie said he didn't believe they were high enough to be concerned. He did say he wanted to scan Krl's stomach and abdomen. He is still trying to find out why she has such acute stomach pains and the first step he said is to rule out any cancer. They are supposed to schedule the scan and notify us of the time and date.

The trip to the doctor took over two hours, right in the middle of our day. During our visit we did learn what malady Dr. Mackie is suffering from. MS. Not only do we consider Dr. Mackie our physician, we consider him a friend.

After Krl and I left the doctor's office, we cut through Sonic and picked up breakfast for lunch! Then I took Krl home and I went to Hawley to my friends where I made a contribution to their junk pile and then to their shop where I changed the oil in the S-10.

Craziest thing. I knew a vacuum line was off. Sometimes when you raise the hood, one line will slip or pull off. I replaced one of these, but now one of the others has begun doing the same. I could tell the line was off though because the A/C heater control didn't route the air out the chosen outlets. The crazy thing is what the pickup consumed very little oil while the line was off, and any smoke was negligible. When I put the line back on, the little truck smoked like a chain smoker when I would apply power.

When I finished servicing the little pickup I drove to Anson and visited with K.O.. I was just trying to give a little support to my friend still camping out at the gin. He has been so ready to be through and I keep telling him that is a nice problem to have. They are in hopes of finishing sometime Tuesday night. As I was preparing to leave, the gin went down. He looked out to make sure there wasn't any smoke (meaning a fire) and I used this development as an opportune time for me to exit.

I stopped by another friends house to deliver a check for a trailer we have leased from him. We visited briefly before I pointed my little truck South to Abilene.

As I entered the Northern edge of Abilene I called Krl to see if we needed anything from the store. We did, so I made one more stop.

When I walked through the door, Krl was finishing cutting beef tips. She already had the peppers and onions cut up, so it was show time for me! I quickly changed into my comfy clothes. washed my hands and began concocting the sauce we cook our beef tips in. Krl directed her attention to egg rolls and rice, and in short order supper was well on it's way.

We ate. Krl went to bed and I watched NASCAR until I fell asleep in my chair.

All in all, it was a pretty good Saturday!

Today is qualifying for the Daytona 500. There have been so many car, driver and sponsor changes I may have to get a program!

Hope your day and weekend are good!

FATHER. thank YOU for a good day. FATHER, I lift up Krl and Dr. Mackie to YOU for YOUR gifts of healing and care. I pray for good results from Krl's scan. I ask for safe travel for Pat, Hag and Robyn as they are on the road. For YOUR love!