We were supposed to go to Jenny's for Christmas, leaving on the 22nd and returning on the 27th. We even had the tickets on Delta and, believe it or not, they were paid for.
Julie hadn't been feeling well for a month or so. Nothing really bad, just sub-par. On Monday, December 19 she went to the doctor and called me from his office saying he wanted me to come and get her and take her to the ER. Her heart rate was quite elevated, up around 150. At the ER they confirmed the high heart rate and a cat scan revealed the possibility of pneumonia. She stayed in the hospital Monday night. On Tuesday they decided to do more testing so they kept her overnight again. On Wednesday, when radiology looked at the cat scan they detected what they thought was a nodule of some kind or another on her lung.
They gave Julie the choice of doing nothing and observing the nodule over a month or so, or having the nodule checked out with a biopsy. She chose the biopsy which they did on Thursday and she came home Thursday evening.
The nodule turned out to be scar tissue. We're not sure what the scar tissue was from, but we were glad it was scar tissue and not something more ominous.
We cancelled the New York trip as her doctor said it would be "premature'' to travel that far. And that trip can be stressful flying into LGA and traveling by town car to rural Westchester County. We were both looking forward to going. Ah, well.
So, the Christmas Holidays were largely spent at home. Tom and Bill both came down on Friday for short visits. John and Lois brought some food over. (They are the Sczomack's from the Guild.) Amy and Jerry from her work brought the vendor gifts to the house.
We watched a number of the versions of A Christmas Carol and White Christmas and It's A Wonderful Life, and Holiday Inn.
We missed seeing Jenny, Sophie, and Bob and spending time with them. We also didn't get to see Rick and Addie who live in Vermont, but who were driving down to spend a few days after Christmas with Jenny and family. We hadn't seen Rick, Addie, and Bob since the summer of 2015. Bummer. FaceTime, here we come.
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