Such lovely eyeballs

Hello, all,

Just in case you hadn't heard already, Nana has gone through her surgery and come out the other end just fine. We went in yesterday morning and submitted her to the surgery location. They got her all prepped up and we stayed with her while she was laying out and waiting for surgery. She looks so cute in a hair net. She was also very impressed by the fact that they gave her a fresh-from-the-drier blanket to keep her toasty.

Before too long, they wheeled her into surgery and I went downstairs to the Quiznos behind the hospital to get a sandwich. To let you know how quick the procedure was, when I came back, she was already out of surgery. They took Papa and myself back and Nana was laying there in a most relaxed position on a chair with her feet up and her shades on. She was definitely still pretty anesthetized, but other than the IV she looked very much the pensioner out on the deck of a cruise ship catching some afternoon rays. And then she fell asleep again. They woke her up, however for some tea and toast. Papa and I kept an eye on her and on her vital statistics clicking away on the machine behind her. She's got pretty good blood pressure for a woman her age.

After some post-op instructions, we drove home and Nana took a nap while I lined up her eye drops and went out to play around with her new garage door opener. While I was getting it configured, I noticed one of the robins hopping around on the ground. Earlier in the day we had looked outside and the nest that we had been so carefully watching was completely empty. Well I followed the path of the mama robin and she lead me right over to one of her babies, perched up on one of the vine-climbing structures in Nana's garden. And now that I knew how to locate the chirp of a baby robin, I also found another one hiding in one of the rose bushes. I took several pictures, and Nana was just delighted that her little porch-lings were out and about in the world. I'll get them posted up here soon.

I've been keeping busy with other tasks, too. Removing stumps, recording Papa, and making dinner, mostly. We'll go in for the follow-up appointment today, and then I go back to Austin preposterously early tomorrow.

-N