On Tuesday, Dad had two doctor's appointments to go to - the GP and a Specialist. He had to go to the GP to get a couple of skin things taken out. The doctor said that he is 99% sure they are nothing, but his motto is 'when in doubt, take it out'. Dad had to get stitches afterwards and so they will have to be taken out next week here in Perth. The specialist visit was to get the results of the 'top and tail' test he had done a couple of weeks ago. The results of the colonoscopy were perfect which was great to hear. From the endoscopy, they learned that he does have some evidence of long term acid reflux. Dad told the doctor that he takes Tums when he gets indigestion and the doctor said that that was fine, but that Dad should also take another pill which will lower the acid in his stomach. He doesn't need to take it regularly, just when he feels the indigestion happening. So, we were happy with all of the results today.
On Wednesday, my friend, Denise and her husband, Robert, came over to our house. I had asked Denise if she could ask Robert to come over and check out our lawn and tell us what to do with it. It looks really awful right now - so many weeds and so much dried grass. Everyone else's lawn on the street looks green and ours is mostly brown. It's a bit embarrassing, actually, but right now, there's not much we can do about it. We will have to do the fix-up when we are home for a few weeks. Robert was so helpful - he knows so much about lawns and was able to tell Dad what he needs to do to get the lawn back to healthy.
I spent Thursday up at my friend, Haidi's, to help her clean her house since their move-in. Haidi has a bad back and so cannot clean for any length of time before it starts hurting her. As well as cleaning, we also managed to get in a nice walk and talk. Dad spent the day spreading 'weed and feed' on the lawn to try and kill the weeds. Hopefully, that will help the lawn to not look too too bad while we are gone. We are thinking about getting an underground sprinkler system which our neighbour said he will put on for us when we are away. I think that fake grass would be even better. :-)
Dad went back to the doctor's on Friday so that they could check his stitches. All looks well so far. We also got our hair cut that day - I asked Christa (our hairdresser) to make mine really short so that I don't have to get it cut again before we get back to HB. I have had my hair cut twice by other hairdressers in the past year and I have not been completely happy with either of them. I have had to come back to Christa each time and tell her to 'fix it'. She always knows what to do. :-)
my new haircut
Dad's new haircut
We had to get up really early yesterday so that we could catch a 6:45am flight to Perth. If we had gone any later in the day, we would have landed really late in the evening in Perth. As it was, we landed in Perth around lunch time. After dropping our stuff off at the unit, we went grocery shopping and then spent the rest of the day relaxing.
We are glad that we also have had today to relax before Dad starts his stint as a student tomorrow. Dad's boss, Harry, arrived at the unit today - he's the instructor for the course. We decided to let him stay in the master bedroom with the ensuite since he is Dad's boss and the instructor for the course. :-)
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