Actually, when you have to have a 4-year-licensed driver sitting beside you ... and can't drive on the freeway ... and not between midnight and 5 a.m. either ... ... somehow, one gets the feeling that one has arrived at one's second childhood! ole joyful

I'd picked some tomatoes, feeling that whatever didn't appear at the churches that day were totally shot, and dropped them off along with things that I'd made ready on Sat at the second just as the choir was ready to process up the aisle at 10:30. Actually, I could have signed in at the ER and gone back, as it was nearly 2 when they got me into a cubicle, but I'd had little discomfort during the wait. Had an interview, then took a blood test and had an X-ray later and I was having a comfortable time while these procedures were going on. The nurse came to say that they'd found something in my blood, were going to give me a shot, and that if I cut myself that night I'd bleed more than usual. Shortly after that, around 7:00, they released me and as I was walking I had a bit of discomfort if I took a deeper breath. I had a little under a quarter of a mile to walk to the car and the evening was rather chilly, so I thought that it would be a chilly process, as I hadn't brought a jacket ... but when I got about 300 feet from the door, I took a bit of a deper breath and there was a bit of a click or something in my chest, then I could take a deeper breath, so was able to walk to the car more easily and quickly than I'd expected. From then, or just after that, I was able to carry on life mostly as before, though I was rather careful of what I did for some time, keeping watch for any difficulties. Still do, actually, though rather routinely so. ole joyful

The Senior Men's Coffee Hour, renamed "ROMEO" (Retired Old Men Eating Out" meets at church for an hour's discussion, story-telling, etc. on Thursday mornings ... and as I was in the midst of that cold last week ... I forbore going, as I didn't want to pss on my condition to even one or two others. I said that they should call it "ROMDO" (Retired Old Men Drinking Out" ... but they wouldn't touch that title with a 20-foot pole. Before joining with most of the Presbyterians and the Congregationalists 85 years ago to form The United Church, that was a Methodist congregation. Some carry-over, perhaps? Went to that church and another on Sunday ... but figured that I was no longer contagious. ole joyful

A slight reduction in the warfarin, according to my hematologist, and altered after I had some antibiotics prescribed following the camera angling into the bladder (quite a few varying camera angles, actually). Thanks for the info about the cranberry juice, as I've been using it, trying to take a glass some time before breakfast, to let it get some good work in, as well as at other times. Will have to ease off some. Some more blood since yesterday, but my retired doc. relative tells me not to worry unless I feel light-headed (no comments, please) or otherwise a bit off, for the weekend ... if so, head to emerg.. I asked her whether, if I smiled pretty, I could drag her kicking and screaming out of retirement for about 5 min. - she smiled as she said, "O.K.". ole joyfuelled ... with some fuelling help from cranberry juice