On to the wires everywhere...I got the heart monitor thing hooked up at the cardiologist today. I called it a halter in an earlier email, but actually iit is HOLTER which I am sure stands for something but I don't know what. After an excrutiatingly long wait (thank the Lord for an understanding boss), it took the nurse just 5 minutes to stick the little stickers on me and hook up all 7, yes 7, wires to a small monitor about the size of a cell phone on a very stylish way but too long gray nylon belt. I have a row of three stickers (1.5" squares of sticky gauze with a snap in the middle) about 2" below my collar bone in the center of my chest, which were really attractive sticking out of the top of my scoop neck top. The other four stickers are spaced around my lower rib cage. The colorful wires hooked to the stickers were so long that they stuck out from under my shirt quite a bit, so the nurse pulled them together and stuck them to my stomach with that wonderfully to sticky tape they use for IVs. She also used that to stick the connector between the seven wires and the monitor to my stomach as well. So lots of wire and all very itchy from the stickers. Only 40 hours to go...
Other notes from the household...Dennis has a pretty bad cold that the rest of us are hoping he keeps to himself. Right now he is snoring in the other room, so loud it sounds like he is in the same room. He is also facing a very busy week at work and says he just can't take a day off to rest. Seth is starting a golf class on Wednesday through the Y, which he is pretty excited about. He is also pretty excited about school, mostly art class. Faith is gabby; if she is awake she is talking...full sentences not always understandable except to mom... most of the time. If she isn't talking she is annoying her big brother or whining because he is annoying her.
Will check back in a few days.
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