1. A radiology nurse from Kootenai Health called me today with a battery of routine questions and with instructions regarding my preparation for Wednesday's biopsy of my transplanted kidney.
Arrive at the hospital at 6:40 a.m..
No food for eight hours.
Take meds at 4:30 a.m.
She told me I'd be moderately sedated.
I learned I'd be at the hospital for six hours. Most of that time would involve preparation and then recovery.
The procedure itself, she told me, won't take long at all.
2. I buckled down today and cleaned house. I focused on Copper's eating area, on a couple of rugs in my bedroom that needed spot cleaning, on areas in the Vizio room where Copper sleeps at times, and on cleaning up litter particles that Copper has unintentionally kicked out of the litter pan. I swept the kitchen, vacuumed the living room, and finished some laundry.
I also found the backpack I thought I'd left at Wildhorse Casino or possibly at an Airbnb in Eugene. But, no, ha!, I'd left it in a suitcase that needed some cleaning, a suitcase Copper likes to sleep in.
I'm feeling, well, I'm feeling giddy about having laundered my backpack and having it back in my life.
3. I am not even 100 pages into Lonesome Dove. I have avoided all spoilers up to this point.
In my reading today, a new character, Jake Spoon, has entered the story. All I'll say is that he's started in on some grass is greener elsewhere talk and I have to believe that if the other characters decide to go in search of this green grass elsewhere, it could be take them on a road to disillusionment, difficulty, and possibly disaster.
I could be wrong, but it's rare that anywhere is all that much better than where we are.
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