I was supposed to take my Mom to the doctor Friday morning. I had set an alarm, planning on being at Roscoe twenty or thirty minutes before her appointment time.

This had been a conspiracy from square one. Pat called Christy (who works in the doctor's office) and Pat sent an e-mail with concerns and requests for tests for the doctor to order. Me, I was the muscle I guess.

When I arrived at Memama's house, Hag was there. He was laughing. "She's gone", he said. 8:24. Her appointment was 8:45 to 9:00.

I went to the doctor's office and Memama was already back. I told Christy I would stay up front, but she was going to have to quiz the doctor. In a bit the door opened and Christy told me, "Why don't you come on back, the doctor is in with Memama now."

I got in on the part of the conversation where Memama says, "I don't know why they made this appointment."

The funniest part of the exchange was when the doctor told Memama, "You have gained sixteen pounds since last summer!"

He wasn't alarmed. Memama had two years of losing weight. BUT, he wanted her to be aware and to stop it.

Surely this has nothing to do with the WHOLE pecan pie Memama scarfed down this last week! Lol!

The doctor said that he expected the lab test to warrant no changes in her meds.

All I can say is the spurty increase in energy since Pat has been gone must be attributable to the bonus meds I give her. If Pat returns and Memama goes back into a funk, we (you and I) will know!

For the rest of the day I had to explain to Memama WHY we sent her to the doctor!

The MAJORITY of my Friday was spent trying to hook up and install a new all-in-one printer, fax, copier, scanner to Memama's computer.

A few months ago, Pat went to Best Buy and bought Memama a new computer. I picked it up when everything had been installed on it. Shortly before thanksgiving I was going to view a DVD and I discovered there was no CD rom or DVD drive. Pat could not believe she had not noticed. (All the software installed from the internet with a "key".

I had downloaded drivers for the new hardware, but could not find the download anywhere. Finally after about four hours I decided to shut the computer down and re boot. As it was going down I saw an opportunity to extract files and I took it! Finally! Thirty minutes later I had the printer fax copier scanner up and running!

No new news on my friend in transit. I would guess he is spending the weekend in Chickasha, OK.

Hope you are having a good weekend!

FATHER, thank YOU!