Wouldn't you know it? The Beast woke me up at 4:30am. I did NOT want to wake up but the stinker put on the overhead light which is a big irritant if you want to sleep. So I got up and got dressed, poured myself some coffee and, before I could even cool off a mouthful to drink, the Beast was eager to leave.
I was hungry so we stopped briefly at McD's to grab an egg McMuffin when we reached Gadsden. The Beast loves McD's sausage but didn't even finish his and ushered me out the door so we wouldn't be late.
The place we ended up was NOT the hospital as I expected but a Surgical Center. It had OR's and recovery areas but the Beast was (finally) put into a special room for his eye cleaning. We had gotten to the center at 6:23am but he wasn't ushered into the room until 8:30am. After the eye cleaning was done, they checked his blood pressure to make sure he was safe to leave. I guess some people have elevated BP's and that can be dangerous. His was just a touch above normal. The whole cleaning and checking took less than 10 minutes and we were on our way home.
The Beast was ecstatic that his floaters seemed to be missing but once the dilation was gone the floaters had returned. He claims his vision, however, is 3000% better than it was. The doctor assured us that he should never have to have the lens cleaned again. For whatever reason, once it's done, it stays clean.
He was so thrilled at the difference in his vision that he rode back to Gadsden later to take pictures of the fall that is there. With all the rain, the falls were just gorgeous. If I can get the Beast to do it, I'll put up a picture or two of what he shot. He just has to *play* with it for a bit before he's satisfied that he's got the perfect shots. *Sigh*
He's been very chipper all day so I guess he really DOES see better. I can't explain his sudden happiness any other way. It must really have been much worse than he let on. I'm amazed he didn't have an accident. I'll tell you one thing, however. His driving scared the shit out of me on our way down to Gadsden. It was really scary. I made sure my seat belt was secure and I hunched down with the seat back and pretended I was trying to sleep. In reality, I was hoping we wouldn't go over the edge of this one road we were speeding down and end up rolling over and over....IF we were lucky. It was a lot different coming back home. I knew he could see the road MUCH better. He didn't scare me. LOL!
We ate some rice and pork when we had our lunch. I don't know exactly how the Beast cooked it (yes, he was very happy and made our lunch with gusto!) because it had a bit of pineapple taste to it but it also had some chopped green pepper, green onions and a little soy sauce. It was very, very tasty.
Dinner tonight was hot dogs Chicago style. Someone needs to invent a better style of hot dog bun to hold all the goodies on it. By the time you put the onions, tomatoes, relish and peppers on it, there's barely room for the hot dog itself. Mine kept trying to slide out...LOL. The Beast always puts loads of celery salt on his while I just put a touch on mine. A little goes a long way. But I DID have two of them and some potato chips. I love onion so I had a LOT of that on my hot dogs. It is just soooooo good!
It's going to be another chilly night so I put my heater on early to keep out the chill. I haven't been entirely successful and probably should have done it even earlier. It's supposed to go down to around 44 degrees F. Tomorrow is only going to be in the mid-60'si. No hope for warmer weather until Saturday. *Sigh* But then it will be back into the 70's again. *Grin* I can hardly wait for summer. The Beast may end up either in the house with the AC going full blast and complaining about the high electric bill or end up down by the lake, keeping cool with dips in the water. I hope he elects the lake...LOL. I would rather barbeque lunch and even dinner rather than listen to him bitch about the heat. He says he has a feeling our summer will be killer hot just because of the global warming thing going on. Who can really say? We can always go down to Mobile or even Destin and spend time around the Gulf. Now THAT would be really great. I miss the salt water and all it's fun. We once took an overnight fishing trip on the Gulf and it was the first time I saw real sunfish. They were HUGE! I didn't even know we had them in the Gulf. I sure wouldn't have wanted to catch one of those on my line. I'll bet they are tougher to catch than even a marlin or sailfish. I caught exactly what I wanted....grouper. Fantastic eating! Wonderful white meat and so sweet. Yum!
Time to get this posted. Love you all and I hope your week is going well. ***Hugs***
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