This is the post I had started, meaning to post yesterday, but ran out of time and then forgot to post it, haha.
The dinner I made Sunday night was meatloaf and rice. I should make it more often. That is one of the few things we end up using up the leftovers. There is always enough for us to have meatloaf sandwiches for dinner the next night, which is what we had last night. Meatloaf reminds me about the ketchup - awhile back I tried switching from Heinz ketchup to much cheaper Walmart Great Value brand. Neither of us has noticed the difference. A 32 oz bottle of Heinz is $5.24. A 32 oz bottle of Great Value is $1.94.
While the 3 large/deep drawers dh built for underneath his big wood working table helped him get those items now stored in it out of bins and out some other shelving, he still has SO MUCH stuff in bins. His plan has been to build a bench with shelves underneath (and probably drawers). It would be a pretty big (and costly project). We got into a little discussion yesterday, where I was trying to make him see that all his time and effort, he needs to get the most "bang for his buck" (ie his his buck being his energy). He was talking about building one more smaller drawer for some space at the end of his wood work table. It really wouldn't hold a lot.....plus those heavy duty drawer slides are super expensive! $500 for the set. All just to store some boxes of wood screws. While building a bench w/shelves along part of the back wall would allow for lots of storage, it will still be a lot of work and costly. We both kind of ended up having the same idea. He found a good sized tool box at Harbor Freight, for less than $300. He could buy two of them to set side by side, along that back wall. They will hold lots of stuff he can then empty out of bins and he'll have it in nice organized storage space, being in nice slide out drawers. And he'll have a nice solid wood top from both, he can use to work on. All for $600.
We've known for 2 1/2 months now that Dh's follow up MRI is on 4/15 and his phone appointment with Mayo Clinic is the next day on the 16th. The other day DH asks me what time is the appt on Wed? I say noon. Yesterday morning I tell him our check in time for your MRI tomorrow is 9am. He says ok, but apparently (as usual) wasn't even listening to me. A little bit later I also remind him that with the MRI no food or drink after midnight. He says "so I have to go until after noon without eating? No....your appt is at 9am....somehow after all this time (and me even saying your appt tomorrow morning is at 9) he thought the MRI is on Wednesday and the phone consult is on Thursday. I said no....they are on the 15th and 16th. Sigh...........
TODAY'S POST:
DH's MRI went well and the result was posted to his MyChart yesterday. We are reading it as the pancreas is showing improvement. The one area of inflammation has resolved and the other area has reduced in size compared to the MRI in January. Today he has his phone consultation with the Mayo Clinic and we'll see what they say, though we won't hear from their doctor about it for another day or two. I guess this call is with a nurse who gets all the info and then the dr reviews it the next day. We are still hoping for some answer as to what is causing this ongoing issue and if anything can be done to help with it.
As we were walking up to the hospital entrance yesterday morning we ran into a friend coming out. He is doing cancer treatments and he said he had like 20 more to do. He's the one who suggested to dh to call Mayo Clinic.
It was over an hour wait for dh to get done, so I had my ipad and earbuds with me, so I watched some of The Morning Show. After dh was done, we went over to Harbor Freight. The tool boxes have to be pre-ordered, they don't carry them in stock, so we got that taken care of. Except the sale price dh saw them when looking online ended yesterday, so we missed out on that :(
I had brought dh a sandwich and a soda with us, so he ate that when we got to the car after his appointment. By the time we were ready to leave the city it was almost lunch time, but since he wasn't hungry we opted to just head home and didn't stop for take out. Fine with me. After the 45 minute drive home, we then got some lunch and around 12:30 headed into our little town to take care of paying for a vehicle registration. As almost always, it's a quick in and out at our courthouse, which we always appreciate.
After we got back home I decided to take a nap. I didn't sleep the best the night before, as dh wasn't sleeping good, because he knew he had to get up early. He went back out in the shop to fiddle around. It was such a nice day yesterday - it got to 72.
I'm glad I took the whole day off. I'm going to have several annual appointments coming up I have to take care of (I always wait to do them when winter is over and no chance of bad roads), my annual wellness exam, mammogram and an annual vet check up for Amos. I'll likely take some days off for those. I'm just waiting to schedule, to make sure nothing conflicts if dh does end up needing to go to Mayo Clinic to be seen.