Goodness what a couple of weeks

On Wednesday, it will be 3 weeks since my sister donated her kidney to our father. Seester is doing fabulously. In fact, you would never know that she had surgery if you just met her. She's back to exercising and running around like usual. I only hope that she isn't overdoing it. Daddy seems to be doing fairly well. Right now he is staying at the hospital townhouses (which is another story in of itself) and every morning he gets up and heads over to the lab to see how how his new kidney is functioning. For the most part he's been getting pretty good results, but his creatinine has been a little high. They encouraged him to drink more fluids and said that should help. By Thursday, we thought it had resolved itself because his results finally came back good, but then the weekend hit and they went back up again to the point where he might have to be re-admitted to the hospital. So not good.

It's funny because God works in mysterious ways and sometimes He'll speak to you or let you know He's there in the weirdest ways. On Saturday, Daddy was a little frustrated and talking to me about it when something he said registered with me. He was frustrated because he had been drinking the required amount plus coffee and tea. When he said the part about coffee and tea, I asked him if it was caffeinated or decaffeinated. He replied, "Caffeinated." Oddly enough, I had just watched an episode of The Doctors on Friday and they had mentioned the caffeinated drinks are a diuretic and that you should drink an equal amount of water for every caffeinated drink you have. Basically, the gist is that caffeinated drinks will dehydrate you.

After I told Daddy this, he decided to see if he cut back on the caffeine if it would help. Well, today his blood work came back great! I'm not sure if that it truly was the reason or not, but maybe, just maybe, it was divine intervention.

So what else is going on? You can just call me the appliance slayer. In the past two weeks, I have has a little fender bender, a microwave to die, a dust buster croak, plumbing to be repaired and for the piece d' resistance (said with an exaggerated French accent)...my washing machine hit the dust. Really?! Yup. My friend suggested that I give up Modern life and go the Amish way, but I'm afraid of what I might do to a donkey. I replied that what I really needed was a maid. Ha! Anyone want to supply me with one?

Soooo, now I'm on the washing machine hunt. DH contacted a friend who works at Lowe's and he's offering to get us an energy efficient GE for $250-300. The appliance repairman told me whatever I do not to get a GE. He was adamant that they were carp. He told me he could get me a Whirlpool for that price, but when I mentioned my longing for a front load washer, he was good to give me a name of a wholesaler who could get me a great price on a Whirlpool so I just may try that. Now, I just need to convince DH's that we really need a front load machine even if they do cost a bit more upfront. Wish me luck!!