Finally a diagnosis--bronchitis

It was drizzly as predicted when we got up. Evelyn went to exercise while I got some pages copied for our study. We came home, ate breakfast and went to the Outback. Evelyn led and did a great job. We came home for lunch after Evelyn washed her hair. She heated some charro beans for me and hot dogs for her. We cleaned the kitchen and she went to curl her hair. She lay down for a nap after promising to go to see the doctor to check her lungs. I had a complicated errand to run. I had won 4 tickets to see the local hockey team by calling the radio station to win the contest. Since Evelyn dislikes hockey, I spent much of the day trying to give them away. All the Canadians in our park had signed for the welcome back party as did we, so they didn’t want them. I tried Canadians from another park but finally gave them to friends of ours from Wisconsin and Minnesota. In the meantime Evelyn went to the doctor at 2 and was not back at 5. I went to the hall and found I was late for the free dinner. I just went back to the kitchen and put some chicken breasts into a carry out box, picked up 2 small ice creams and went home. I ate one of the breasts and finished our white zinfandel before coming inside to brush my teeth. I fully intended to ask our neighbor to take me to the hospital, thinking Evelyn might have been admitted with pneumonia (even though we got inoculations against it 2 years ago). When I came out, she was home. She had waited nearly 2 hours at the walk in clinic and then went to have a chest X-ray. She also had to get a shot and then went to the pharmacy to get 2 more prescriptions and a machine to administer one of them. It was a breathing machine, Pulmo Nebulizer, that is to loosen her stuffed brochial tubes. She has bronchitis. We learned how to use the machine by watching a DVD included in the instructions. She has to use this 4 times each day.. I also made an appointment with our dentist in Mexico for tomorrow at noon. She also wants a pedicure. It is good that we have removed most of our Christmas decorations because we won’t have much time tomorrow. I also went to a construction site and picked up a couple of pieces of 5/8 plywood to use for a shelf and a plaque I want to cut into the shape of Texas for a wall plaque on which to hang some Texas trinkets that Evelyn bought as tree ornaments last year. They are too small for that.