Moncure, NC -October 1, 2022

Morning 56 Degrees,  

Afternoon 65 Degrees, Wind SW at 5 to 6 Mph, Humidity 77%, cloudy.

 Hurricane Ian moved thru our area yesterday, all day rain and really heavy in the afternoon and evening. Wind never amounted to much here as the storm had been down graded to tropical storm. Today it is just cloudy

        

Texas Tilly

We have changed our propane gas system by adding a (new to us) gas bottle that I call “Fat Albert” but all other bottles are not being used. 

Still doing dialysis three days a week (Mon, Wed and Fri)

    

"Fat Albert" 

 Well 2021 was a busy year for us. Starting in Lakewood, NM I was doing dialysis in Artesia, NM three days a week (started March 2020). In May our daughter in Austin, TX (Carole) came for a visit for a few days. One of the days we were talking of the future what were our plans for the future. I had none but my wife wanted to move back east to North Carolina near our two other daughters.

                                                          Carole

By the end of the month we had decided to sell our moterhome and buy a destination trailer. In June giving up our lot at Lakewood and traveling to San Angelo, TX to purchase our trailer. Moving our Personnel affects (tiering) onto the trailer and having the trailer transported to North Carolina.  

                                    My wife in the kitchen with salesman

In San Angelo and along the way east I had to have dialysis three times before arriving in North Carolina. July first we arrived on North Carolina. Our daughter Christine was able to be there to receive the trailer, the transport driver made the trip faster than us traveling by car and stopping for me having dialysis treatment. Upon arriving I did need a treatment and had nothing scheduled so I went to the hospital. Covid test (PCR) and treatment I then was able to get a “chair” at a new Fresenius dialysis center in Holly Springs North Carolina, about the same distance as Artesia was from Lakewood. We still had more to do setting everything up around the house. Our son-in-law helped me build a deck and porch off our entry door. We needed a large gas bottle (100 pounder) for our heat, our son-in-law purchased that and transported that to the park.   

                                                   the deck we built

Over the summer our daughter from Austin, TX (Carole) and her son (Avery) came east for a visit, nice and our three daughters got together with us, a fun time.

                                           100 hundred pound bottle

Then a round of doctors, Primary Care, my wife & I, Cardiologist and dialysis doctor. By September I also needed a surgeon for replacing my blood catheter, then putting in a PD catheter who found a hernia so that got fixed. Catheters, 

                                          PD catheter

I am switching from blood to PD. A PD catheter (sometimes called a Tenckhoff catheter) is a special tube (some of that is sticking out of my belly) that is inserted into your abdominal cavity (space around the organs within your tummy). A 2000 ML liquid is put in thru the PD catheter for an amount of time then drained out removing toxins and water. Which means the 2000 in and 2400 out, the amount out varies with the amount of water removed. This training started December twenty. This PD dialysis will be done at home so I am switching to home dialysis. Training for this is in Fuquay Varina, North Carolina. So we have boxes of supplies for both systems with some stored a my daughters house

So now it is the new year we have a lot of learning to do. There are two processes we have to learn manual and with a machine that does the work overnight. These two processes use different size bags of liquid and each process uses three types of liquid to cleans the blood and remove water. 

                                           The machine we are learning

 

 

Merry Christmas from our house to yours

September 11

 

So That's July

 Moncure, NC - Sunday, July 18, 2021

Morning 71 Degrees, Wind E at calm Mph, Humidity 98%, partly cloudy.

We had gotten some sprinkles and put up the large canopy to protect the table saw and the chop saw from the weather. On John’s and Chris’s way home last night they picked up more wood for the hand rails.

Looking out at our deck

Today was the hand rails around the deck and the for the stairs. We finished up that mid afternoon and had lunch before cleaning up and putting things away. I think we did a good job on the deck and hand rails. 

   

From the back

Moncure, NC - Monday, July 19, 2021

Morning 70 Degrees, Wind E at calm to  Mph, Humidity 99%, rain.

We were at dialysis by 6:30 this morning in and an all day of rain.   

From the front

Moncure, NC - Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Morning 66 Degrees, Wind S at calm Mph, Humidity 100%, mostly cloudy.

We drove over to Holly Springs a different way today on some back roads checking out some shopping. Then we went to Lowe’s to get a Line trimmer and blower. There are weeds at the back of our lot that need cutting down and the blower for leaf’s in the fall.   

The trailer is backed up to a tree line so there will be leafs in the fall   

Moncure, NC - Saturday, July 24, 2021

Morning 69 Degrees, Wind NW at calm Mph, Humidity 96%, partly sunny.

   

   Baseball, we went to Zane’s game here in Holly Springs playing at (Holly Springs Salamanders, at Ting Park, is one of 16 teams in the Coastal Plain League). They played earlier and won that game in north Raleigh. And played good winning this game also but a loss yesterday prevented them from moving forward in the playoffs and playing tomorrow. 

After the game we went to our daughter’s and had dinner. 

July 25, 30 

Monday Wednesday and Friday’s I am at dialysis early (6:15am) four hours with rest after that otherwise not much going on.

 

Moncure, NC - Saturday, July 31, 2021

Morning 74 Degrees, Wind N at calm Mph, Humidity 97%, mostly sunny.

Afternoon 92 Degrees, Humidity 53%, mostly sunny.

Where has the month gone, we are already one month in a new to us RV park in a new trailer. We are pretty much settled in the trailer. There is next to no outside storage compared to the moterhome and we are not aloud to have a storage building. Still trying to figure that out.   

 

Deck Start

 Moncure, NC - Thursday, July 15, 2021

Morning 70 Degrees, Wind NE at calm Mph, Humidity 99%, partly sunny.

 I had an INR test this morning at eight o’clock. INR was 1.7 still a little low so they adjusted my Warfarin with four days at 5mg and three at 2.5 and do that for two weeks.

I am surprised at how fast I am into the medical routine here in North Carolina and so many doctors and hospitals that I have been into or seen in such a short time. 

   

 Moncure, NC - Friday, July 16, 2021

Morning 72 Degrees, Wind NE at calm Mph, Humidity 97%, sunny.

Dialysis 6:30 this morning for four hours.

Getting ready to build our deck stopped at Lowe’s for a few things for tomorrow. We went for a pizza in Apex at J & S pizza, very good pie there (New York style)  

 

Moncure, NC - Saturday, July 17, 2021

Morning 73 Degrees, Wind SW at calm Mph, Humidity 98%, sunny.

Afternoon 92 Degrees.

 Building the deck with a lot of help from John and Chris and my assisting, we built the deck off our sliding door. We put up two canopy’s one just to shade the table saw and chop saw and one with chairs under to rest. As the sun came our of the tree line I put out the awning for more shade.

I was limited to the size of the deck by the county making it just under the maximum with and depth. John and Chris picked up more wood for the deck on their way here after sleeping in latter needing the rest from a weeks work. We got the posts set and the joists and most of the deck completed today. We also built out the steps so we could use them over night if needed. Hand rails tomorrow.