Mama, bad news for Grandma, weather woes

Mama and Victoria enjoyed their time with the little one from the church yesterday. I probably should not call her a “little one” because she is seven years old (I think), but she is a tiny thing. Mama said she really began to open up to them as they were concluding their shopping spree in Wal-Mart. It was a good experience for all three of them.

After the party Mama went to see the doctor because she is having problems with her recovery from the recent surgery. The knee seems to locking in place at times. The knee cap has a mind of its own and does not prefer its assigned position. While the doctor was looking at her knee he was pushing about on the knee cap and it popped into place giving Mama immediate relief.

The x-rays were all normal so the doctor was not overly concerned. He did take time to explain the she had quite a bit of debris cut away during her surgery and the resulting insult to her knee will take a longer time to recover than someone who had less repair work done. (She has to bear that in mind when comparing surgeries within a group of fellow suffers.) I think that eased her mind. The doctor did tell her that she should avoid walking on uneven ground for the next several weeks; a difficult task while living where we no live.

Grandma and Grandpa went to the Medicare office in Wichita Falls yesterday to see if they could improve the coverage they are now receiving through the program. Sometime last year they had me look up Humana insurance – a Medicare supplement. When I explained that there are over fifteen different programs in the Humana system and that they needed to get some professional help getting in the correct program they did not understand what I was trying to say.

Now, Grandma has been denied surgery because they do not have the right coverage and since the system cannot be reset until open enrollment in October, they are stuck with what they have until then. They did like the woman who they met with in the office and I am sure Grandma will keep that line of communication open. This year they will get the help I suggested last year.

I worked in the apartment for a couple of hours last night. I got everything on my list done plus I sealed up the roof edge on the outer wall of the south side of the apartment. We are supposed to get some very strong storms tonight and I wanted to make sure that was done prior to any more rain. I probably did not need to worry.

The weather forecasts have not been overly accurate- especially in predicting rainfall – but everyone in the area of north Texas through the upper plains have been on high alert because of the severity of the storms that have plagued the area for over a month now. The forecast tonight is for damaging thunderstorms. There are not forecasts for tornados but damaging winds and large hail are in the summary that has been issued. Having had a truck recently damaged by large hail, I am more cognizant of such information.

We will see what happens.