Getting Better

This isn't quite the vacation/retirement  I'd been planning, but it is probably most like the one we all get.  Tribune finally got it's act together and moved my medical plan to Northern Virginia.  So I visited all the doctors that Kaiser has.  It seems I'm very healthy except for one little thing.  And for this little thing, I had surgery on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.  Very good day to do that.  It gives you a lot to be thankful for when Thanksgiving actually rolls around.  So, they worked on my body and I am looking pretty much like that drawing above.  Cute, no?  

Carina's family was here for Thanksgiving, so we had a 2.5 year old to keep things lively.  I'll download those pictures tomorrow.  And will tell more about their visit then.  I did get to read.  I finished the first third of the Civil War.  That got us to Shelbyville.  And now I've started the long road from Fredericksburg to Meridian.  Anyone who tells you that Lincoln's Team of Rivals always agreed on things is a liar.  Now I have to read that book again.  He was very good at managing a nest full of snakes.  I hope Obama is too, if that is the model he is following.
I also read a "new" Reacher book, One Shot.  Something light to keep my mind off the heaviness of battle and my body.  Only, I already read this book either on the cruise or at Maureen's.  That wasn't so bad.  When things aren't going quite right, it's always good to have a friend around.  At first I thought Child had recycled a plot.  My error.  

But speaking of having friends around, Adrian came out to spend Thanksgiving with me.  He was supposed to help me cook and travel around Virginia.  Instead, he stayed at the hospital most of one night and took me home the next day.  If I only had one shot at a great son, I guess I did pretty well.  I am one lucky woman.