Thursday, December 7, 2017 - Medical Checkup - Slowing Down Today

Thursday, December 7, 2017 - Medical Checkup - Slowing Down Today

My alarm went off this morning at 4:30 and woke me up!!  All that running around yesterday provided me with a really good night's sleep.  I have a medical checkup this morning at the Cherokee Health Center in Vinita at 9:00am.  Since I will be having a fasting blood test, I only drank one "plain" cup of coffee - I prefer sugar and creamer so one cup of "plain" was enough.  It was nice to take things slow and easy this morning - no rush.  We left Oswego at 8:00 to make the drive to Vinita and things moved along quickly once we arrived.  I signed in and in no time they called me back.  While I was here today I had both a flu and pneumonia shot.  I've never had either of these shots in the past but after being diagnosed with pneumonia earlier this year when I had a chest x-ray, I learned the test showed it was not the first time I've had pneumonia.  My doctor strongly suggested I get these two shots annually from now on.   I inquired about meeting with their dietitian for help with my low carb diet, and they will be calling me to set up a time for that.  Two more stops included lab work and another to pickup my prescriptions.   

We made a quick stop at Walmart.  I needed to get the calcium tablets my doctor recommended, as I am almost out.  When I bought Christmas paper yesterday, I forgot to buy tags to go on the presents, and I found some real cute ones that will go well with the paper I bought.

On our way home we stopped at Chetopa RV to talk with our RV dealer, Deryl about a couple of issues we are having.  He will order the parts we need and Dean is going to fix them.  Unfortunately, he is not able to get us in before we head south.  Dean is pretty good at repairing things so I have no doubt he can handle both of them.

By the way, while we were at Chetopa RV, Deryl wanted me to take a look at a new Big Horn they had.  I liked it, but the one next to it I liked even better.  He said the one I liked was their best seller but we won't be making any upgrades at this time.  We really like our floor plan and even though it is only 36' it has quite a bit of storage.  Even with all of our stuff for full-time living in it, we still have some storage area available.  I've done my best to keep things as minimal as possible and yet have everything that is really important for us to live comfortably.

Once home, we nuked a couple of hot dogs for lunch and now we are both sitting in front of the RV with our laptops.  After all of the running around we've done the past few days it feels nice to just sit and relax.

After getting the blog updated I spent sometime trying to catch up reading all of the blogs I follow.  I am so far behind and I have really missed reading them daily.  

Dean suggested pizza for dinner so that's what I made.  We love it made in the cast iron skillet in the oven.  One nice thing about pizza on a night like this - especially in the oven - it helps keep Bentley warm!  It's going to be really cold tonight, but we are prepared and tomorrow the temperatures start to rise again.  We are ready to get out and begin our morning walks again - so hopefully Saturday we'll be back at it.

The rest of our evening was uneventful - reading and TV - we went to bed about 10:00.  It was a good slow day - we need those occasionally.