Not much to report

Mary continues to get stronger. Late in the day yesterday, she was doing some kind of lifting and apparently pulled her incision which caused her some undue pain. Her stomach is not back to normal yet and she is taking Prilosec and Tums but not as much as last week. She didn't feel great today but when I got home the potatoes were in the oven, the chicken was defrosted and ready for my limited skills with a skillet, and overall, Mary participated in fixing dinner. I always take that as a good sign.

I was back at the opthalmologist today. One thing I learned is that the vitreous humor (humor = gel or fluid in the eyeball) is needed for the first few months of gestation. After that, it does nothing and serves no purpose until you get to be my age. Then, as it pulls away it can cause detached retina and blindness. The space in the eyeball vacated by the vitreous humor is replaced with aqueous humor so the eyeball does not collapse. Anyway, the doc said I looked fine, he didn't want to see me until January and then we'll do something about my cataract. Unless, of course, I show symptom requiring his attention: Big ugly floaters or blocked vision or flashes of light.

You may have noticed the slight changes in the blog layout. The most significant is the addition of a Google search function limited to just this blog. I have also added a direct picasa web album widget so you can easily get to our pictures.

In other words, its been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon...where the women are strong, the men are good looking and all the children are above average. You do know that Mary went to college in Stearns County Minnesota, the location of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon.