It has been a quiet week and I was ready for it. Phill finally became theraputic so went off the fragmin shots finally. He has been on fragmin since 12/16. Don't know why he has so much trouble with his INR. They called yesterday and said he could stop and just take the coumadin. The home health nurse was here wednesday to draw his blood and bring all the monitoring equipment they have for him. We now have a base unit that hooks up to our phone line, it then transmits his weight, blood pressure, pulse and oxygen reading into town everyday. There is a remote scale, blood pressure cuff and O2 sensor, they can be placed anywhere within 50 feet of the base unit. I didn't know they had such equipment, kinda neat! This is because of his diagnosis of congestive heart failure. They can adjust his doses of lasix if things change too much.
We had lots of rain on tuesday and have prediction of more this week coming up. Hope we don't get any more snow. It is nice a couple of times a year but that's enough.
I ended up canceling going in to the guardianship class wednesday, just didn't feel like it. I tried to get a cold, but took lots of Vit. C and knocked it out quick.
Went in to town thursday to townhall meeting with commissioner, interesting, but too many people with their own agenda. We need to figure out county budget, but everyone just thinks of their own needs and not the population as a whole. Guess that is human nature.
Lazed around all day and then went out to dinner with Doris and Dick. We sure enjoy their company all winter while they are here. Middle of march will be here before we know it and they will be on their way back to Florida.
Liz and I have been trying to get some help with keeping NV Energy from building a power plant about 2 miles from town. They are going to capture gases from the Kern River pipeline pumping station to generate 6KW of power. It will be an unmanned site and they will have some very dangerous chemicals stored there. If they should have an explosion it would blow cars off the highway 161 coming from Jean to Goodsprings. BLM seems to think it is all okay. We are having trouble getting correct stats and the support of Clark County. Maybe we are just 2 crazy old ladies who don't want any changes as was stated in the Las Vegas Review Journal a year ago. We don't think so, but we sure have trouble getting people to see things our way. Of course over the years we've won lots of battles of this sort, so will just have to wait and see. We are really afraid that they have bigger plans down the road as they are putting in 148 fiber optic lines. UNLV only uses 1 fiber optic line for the whole university system, now why would they need that many lines???
Next weeks calendar is fully penciled in so guess I'll be busy. Everyone take care and let us hear from you. Ruthie and Phill
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