Parkers' Special Weekend

 Next up was Ft. Collins - and we were excited to see that bunch also!  But let me back up a minute to the beginning of the week!  On Monday, Glenn had surgery to repair a hiatal hernia!  Up at the crack of dawn to get down to Co. Springs by our 7:00am check in - and then you wait and wait it seems!

Surgery went just fine - I had taken my kindle and enjoyed their "cafe" and later on coffee!  And I walked the halls when I got tired of waiting!  Surgery took a couple of hours and afterwards we both realized it was a LOT more involved than what we thought!  Earlier we had even thought he could come home that evening but that was not to be!

Glenn was pretty groggy that afternoon and had a hard time with nausea and slight vomiting - very normal I guess!  But the pain medication and nausea medication in his IV helped him!  I was impressed with the actual facility but not very impressed with the nurses and neither was Glenn!  It was a little strange when a nurse would come in and Glenn would say he was in pain and the nurse would ask him what type of medication he wanted????  REALLY?  Glenn called Jaime and it was great to get her advice!

I finally went home for the night with the intention of picking him up the next day, late morning!  When I hadn't gotten a phone call from Glenn, I called him and asked what was going on and he said to come on down and hopefully he'd be released soon!  Try 6:30 that evening!!!  I had no idea you could be released that late!  But we had to wait on the dr and he was very late coming in - but we both liked him and he spent a lot of time going over pictures and what would happen in the following weeks!  Basically Glenn had to be on a liquid diet for 2 weeks and no lifting over 10#!  His follow up was this last Friday and he's now up to 20# lifting but still mainly on liquids for a couple more weeks!  Trust me, I've made every soup recipe I know and when chicken doesn't go down good, that takes away a LOT of my recipes!  But each day is a little better and soon he'll be back on solid food!

So Glenn was still taking it pretty easy when we headed to Ft. Collins that same week of surgery - but he did just fine!  Traffic wasn't crazy as we left by noon and finally arrived at Jill and Robby's house!  It was takeout Chinese for dinner that night although Glenn had to order the soup but he was fine with that!

Saturday morning was Parker's brunch at the church - Glenn opted not to go as he couldn't eat anything and didn't want to sit in one spot for that long!  It was a gorgeous day outside so we took a couple of pictures before we went into the brunch!

The church puts on a wonderful brunch - I was excited because I remembered 2 years ago when Aleah got confirmed that they had cinnamon rolls!!!  Unfortunately, none of those this year but there were lots of pastries, lots of fresh fruit and dip and different kinds of breakfast burritos!  I DID remember from the prior time that the burrito was so spicy that I couldn't even eat it!  So I asked this time if they had any that weren't spicy and sure enough, they had some without any green chiles - it tasted awesome!!

After the brunch, we all went into the sanctuary where each one of the 20 kids read their "life paper" that they had written - all very good!  Parker did a great job of speaking clearly in front of everybody!

Then it was back to Jill's to do a few things for the next day - and then we headed to Longmont to watch Aleah play - she just had one game left that day so Glenn decided he would go too!  A beautiful day to watch a game - unfortunately they lost but it was fun to see Aleah play!

For some reason, I had brought a BLACK t-shirt to wear that day - what was I thinking????  So borrowed one of Jill's for the game!

It was fajitas for dinner that night and then off to TCBY (Parker's choice) for ice cream!  Glenn had no problem eating that!

Next up is confirmation day!