Its Friday evening and here is the days news.

We arrived in Dallas about an hour, 7:20 am, after we left Benbrook. We made our way to the 3rd floor for our scheduled appointment to see the Dr. We had to wait till 9:00 am to begin. We first saw the nurse and had our vitals and temp take. My weight is 181, normal temp and bp was 111/87. So far so good, the pills are working.

We had to wait about an hour to see the Dr. Time by then was 10:00 am. He asked lots of questions to get my history and family history. And he asked about the extent of my angina. We are now labeled as having sever angina. And we are scheduled to be admitted for day surgery next wednesday morning to go to the cath lab. In there we will see what has changed. The Dr did state that my bypass operation of 16 years is unusual as the normal "vessel" use, hince the leg vein, lasts about 5-7 years. Since I had a chest vein used, he stated that these usually last 10 yrs. The Dr's back then said I was good for 10 yrs.

My memory tells me that the Dr's that did the bypass in 1990 were about the best in DFW and they were young guys. My Dr at the time, "JR" highly recommended them. it could be that I was lucky and got some current cutting edge surgeons 16 years ago. I had a fairly active life till Oct, 04. The summer of 04 I was able to mow grass. I would not even attempt that now. I played golf till late Sep,05 when angina stopped me. Even as late as Aug,05 I was playing golf with no discomfert. I had a cart quit on me in Superior, NE on the 2nd tee and had to walk carrying my bag, about 35#, over 550 yards back to get another cart.

Things now are, I don't and can't walk 100 feet, roll over in bed, shower and towel dry, etc without some angina. And it is getting steadly and notably worse. If the Dr had sent me home with "angina I had to live with", I don't think I would last more than a year. I call myself useless now. Unable to do much. Shirley wont let me vacuum, dump the tanks, or anything that would be exertion. Her and my fear is to break loose a bit of blockage and have it float to some spot that would cause an attack. The Dr that did my carotid surgery stated that this could be my demise. Yes its serious and we both are well aware of it. Hince my being a usless bum.

But, come wednesday, all this will change, hopefully. There are some conditions that could occur to prevent this reversal. And all of them await the cath lab procedure. I think it is worth noting that they are the minority. I look forward to being able to do what I was able to do the summer of 03, 04 and that was being very active. I'm to young to be in a wheel chair.

We will update this blogg after our return from Dallas next week unless there are happenings here where we are staying.

Its tuesday and it got to 33 this morning. My neighbor must of had frozen water line this morning as he was out checking his hose four times. I will ask hime later. He did have frozen lines last week when we disconnected as the temps were going to get near 32. We disconnected yesterday and wil not reconnect till tomorrow. The overnight temp here was probably under 32 as the airport was to be at 35.

Tonight the low is to be 33 at the airport but I expect it to get below 32 again and then it warms to 40's overnight. We dumped our tanks sunday late and will dump again on thursday late. I have my Dr appointment at the VA hospital in Dllas on friday. Shirley will have empty tanks and a full water tank in case I get admitted and gt fixed.

Its dry, dry, dry. This area is over 13" below normal rain fal. The Lake Benbrook where we are it is 11 feet below normal. Boating is currently prohibited on the lake, if you could get your boat lanched. The boat ramps are high and very dry. Everything is brown from the lack of rain. With the winds we have been having, there is a sever burn possibility.

As ever weekend, the weekend campers come and go. There is seven of us in the 31 spots and our next door neighbor is packing up as we speak. He has loaded the bikes and the other stuff he had out. They are in an older Kountry Star with a single slide diesel pusher. I'm sure they are going to miss the internet as they are one of those that was on as much as they could. There is two on the signal besides us. Down from 11 last week.

Nothing much to add. Just waiting for friday.