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In the ongoing circle of going to doctors, trying to figure out what is wrong with the man of the house, we have now seen Dr. Howell, the primary care physician; Dr. G, the Ear/Nose/Throat doctor; Dr. Mikolides, the neurologist; Dr. Whitney, The vascular surgeon; Dr. Robinson, the pulmonologist, and now Dr. Rouse, the cardiologist.

The first time we went to see Dr. Robinson was June 22. She took a medical history, and sheduled Fabgrandpa for a lung function test. He has had lung function tests before at the VA, but those were very simple, easy tests compared to what Dr. Robinson did. This lung function test was very sophisticated, with ultra modern equipment. Fabgrandpa sat in what looked like a modern telephone booth, and the breaths he took were recorded electronically. This machine gave Dr. Robinson a ton of information about Fabgrandpa’s lung function. Quite a contrast with the plastic tube that the VA used, which only showed how far he could blow the marker up the tube.

Next, Dr. Robinson changed the medication he was using to see if there would be any change in breathing ability. She also took blood to run a bunch of tests. We were referred to Dr. Rouse, a cardiologist, for a stress test.

With our granddaughter, Sarah at her school play last year.

On Monday last week, Fabgrandpa went to Dr. Rouse’s office for the stress test. Because he can not walk for very long without getting out of breath, they did the chemical stress test, where they inject Fabgrandpa with the chemical, and then monitor his heart function.

On Wednesday, we went back to Dr. Robinson’s office for results of his testing. She told us that he has Alpha–1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, which is an inherited condition that raises your risk for lung and liver disease. She said that even if he had never smoked a cigarette in his life, with Alpha-1, he could still get COPD. Dr. Robinson is setting up a home health nurse who will come to our house once a week and give Fabgrandpa an Alpha-1 injection.

When we got home from the pulmonologist’s office, we got a call from Dr. Rouse’s office, asking if we could come in the next day at 8:00 a.m. We took that appointment and got up bright and early to get there on time.

Dr. Rouse said that the stress test came back as “abnormal”, and he is scheduling a Cardiac catheterization for Thursday, August 18. Next week. All of this is happening so quickly that we are wondering why we didn’t start with the pulmonologist and cardiologist, instead of taking this round about journey to get here. If Dr. Rouse finds a blockage, he will go ahead an insert stents while he is in there with the catheter.

I am nervous, worried, scared, but also hopeful that the things these two doctors aare doing will make my sweetheart feel better. I hope that getting stents will allow Fabgrandpa to feel good enough to go on day trips, and go out and have some fun. All we have done for about two years now is go to doctors. It gets to be depressing, and disheartening, to go from one doctor to another and still feel bad. I’ll let you all know how things go with the Cardiac catheterization on Thursday.

Tidy Cats® Lightweight Cat Litter Makes Rosie The Boy Cat #MyPetStar Every Day

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Fabgrandpa and I had never owned a cat before Rosie The Boy Cat came into our lives. The little guy just appeared at our door back in April, and it wasn’t long before he had moved right in. While it is sad that thoughtless people drop off kittens and puppies on our country dirt road every spring, it was good that Rosie found us. We resisted his cuteness as long as we could, but he won us over, and has become the pet star of our household in record time! We thought he was a female cat, so we named “her” Rosie. But when we took her to be spayed, we found out that Rosie was a boy. So, his name changed a bit to Rosie The Boy Cat.

Rosie has become the star of our home in the short time he has been here. He does such funny things, and keeps us laughing. I take photos of him all the time, and share them on Instagram and Facebook. I have also started using photos of him to make greeting cards. It is so easy to do! Using my cutting machine and some imagination, the cards I make come out so cute! Here is how I made the last one:

This is the original photo I chose for my card

I picked out a photo of Rosie, and using the Paint app, I cropped it and resized it to print out at 4.5 inches X 4.5 inches. I printed out the resized photo of Rosie on photo paper.

I cropped and resized the image using Paint.

Next, I picked out a sheet of cardstock that measures 24 inches X 24 inches, and folded it in half twice, to make a 6 inch square card. I went to the Design Space for my cutting machine online, and chose a frame to cut. I cut the frame pieces out at 5 inches square.

The supplies I used to make my greeting card.

Next, I decided on what I wanted the card to say. I used the cutting machine to cut out the letters for the front of the card.

All the parts cut out and ready to glue together.

I used a glue stick to glue the frame, the picture of Rosie, and the words I cut out to the front of the card.

Here is the finished card on the outside. Cute!

I used MSWord to type up the wording for the inside of the card, and printed it out on regular printer paper. Then I cut out the words in a cloud shape and glued that to the inside of the card. The finished product:

Since we had never owned a cat before, we knew nothing about them, or the various products that a cat would need, so we have been learning how to take care of him from the start. We are frequent shoppers at Kroger, and check their pet aisle every time we go now. We have been thinking of changing the cat litter that we use, so this time we bought Tidy Cats® Lightweight. I have a disability that makes it hard for me to pick up heavy things. Tidy Cats® Lightweight weighs less than the other cat litters we have tried, which is a big plus for me. While it weighs less, it has the same volume as heavier litters do. It’s also the best dust free cat litter.

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Fabgrandpa and I are still learning about cats, and how to take good care of Rosie The Boy Cat so he will be our #MyPetStar for years to come. How often do you change the litter in your kitty’s box? Do you change every time you scoop, or do you scoop and add more and just change completely once a week?

My Most Frequently Asked Question: How Did You Get Started WorkCamping?

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Our first campsite at Arrowhead Campground in Altanta. Our first RV was a 2000 Starcraft Travel Trailer. We started our workamping adventure here.

Fabgrandpa and I lived in our RV for more than 13 years. Over the years, I have had many people email me or private message me on Facebook, asking me how we got started workamping or how we prepared for our life on the road. So, because so many people want to know, I am going to try to answer that question today.

Way back in 1995 or 96, I came across a news group online that was all about camping. In that newsgroup, there was a thread that came up about full time living in an RV. Before I saw that thread, it had never occurred to me that people actually did that. I was hooked immediately. I wanted to sell the house that day and go out to see the world. Well, at least the US. It took me a couple of years to convince my husband that we wouldn’t starve or go broke by doing that.

Fabgrandpa and friends working in the campground at Stone Mountain, Georgia in 2005

So, in 1999, Fabgrandpa and I had an estate sale, and sold almost all of our “stuff”. That included furniture, household goods, yard equipment, and our pop-up camper. And then we just sat in the empty house for another year or so. In July of 2000, I was talking about just doing it again, and Fabgrandpa told me to shit or get off the pot. So, I called a real estate agent and put the house up for sale. I thought I would have a couple of months to get ready to go. Ten days after I put the house on the market, I was sitting at the closing table.

It happened so fast! When we got a contract signed on the house, we called the RV dealer we had been talking to for over a year, and told him we were ready to buy the Starcraft travel trailer we had been looking at. He said he had sold it. It would take sixty days to get another one in. I started calling Starcraft dealers around the southeast, looking for another one. We found one in Sylacaugha Alabama, about 90 miles from our house. We drover over there and put down our earnest money on that one. The day after we closed on our house, we drove back over to Sylacaugha to pick up our trailer.

Camping in Flagstaff, Arizona on our way to our job at the North Rim Grand Canyon in 2008. We bought a Jayco Eagle with 2 slides in 2007.

While it all sounds so quick and spur of the moment, it really did take some planning to get there. We had talked about how to get rid of our things for over a year. When we finally decided to actually do it, we called an estate sale company to handle selling the things in our house. They said we were their first “live” customers. The estate sale people had us put the things we wanted to keep in one room of our house, so that they wouldn’t be sold. We had to go through all the closets, drawers, and storage places in the house to pull those things out. Going through family photos and Christmas ornaments took the longest time. It was so sentimental, and hard to do.

On the day before the sale started, the estate sale people came to our house. They set up lots of folding tables and put all of our things on them throughout the house. On the day of the sale, they asked us to leave, because it would be easier on us if we did. I think they were right, too. The sale went on for two or three days. At the end of the sale, the estate sale company kept a percentage of all the sales, and gave us the rest.

Stopped in Marble Canyon Arizona leaving the Grand Canyon in 2010

Even though the estate sale got rid of a lot of things, there was still a lot left in the house. We had two moving sales after that. And then were there was still stuff left in the house. We called The Kidney Foundation, who came out and picked up everything except an upright piano. I called several churches in the area, offering the piano as a donation, but no one would come to get it. I finally decided to just leave it in the house, and told the buyer if they did not want it, they could roll it outside and burn it. Finally, everything was gone that needed to be gone.

Before we put the house up for sale, we went to visit a campground that was ten miles from the house. We asked if they had a monthly rent plan, and if they ever used workcampers. They told us how much the rent would be by the month, and said that they did use workcampers. They hired Fabgrandpa, and he started to work there the day after we moved in. They paid him an hourly salary, and comped the rent for us as well. It was a pretty good start to our workcamping career.

We stayed at that first campground for about eleven months. I had a job in Atlanta, so I just continued to work at that job until I was laid off.

If you are thinking of living full time in an RV, I know you must have questions. You can leave them in comments, and I will answer them in the next How to Get Started Workcamping post. Do you see yourself living in an RV fulltime? When do you want to do it? Do you have a plan yet?

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Four Reasons I Haven’t Been Writing About My Life Lately

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Do you ever have those moments where you feel like you need to do something, but you just don’t have the motivation to get it done. If you are like me, the thing you need to do at that moment will be put aside for an hour, a day, a week, and on and on until it has become months and months that you have not done that thing. Well, the thing is, I just haven’t been writing any chatty, personal posts here since April when Fabgrandpa and I went to Richmond to visit our daughter. And if you know me, you know that is just not like me. So, when you look up there at my header, and see all those “thought bubbles” of things I like to do and write about, you will see all the things we haven’t been doing this summer.

There has been a lot going on here in the Fab household. None of it has been fun. Some of it is not my story to tell, but it has had an effect on me which IS my story, so I need to say a bit about that. With that said, here are the top four reasons I have not been writing charming, witty, and interesting posts to entertain you, my readers.

Fabgrandpa and I Have Been Sick

It is not a major illness, but we have been passing a nasty bug back and forth between us for what seems like months. This bug, whatever it is, causes me to get an ear infection, and chest congestion. I have had at least three rounds of antibiotics, which beats it back for a while, but once I have taken all of the pills, it comes back in a few days. I’m really tired of it. So is Fabgrandpa. Because he has COPD, he is also given steroids along with the antibiotic. I’m just ready for it to go away.

Doctor Appointments. And More Doctor Appointments

In addition to the bug that will not leave us alone, Fabgrandpa started seeing a pulmonologist. This is the first time he has seen a pulmonologist since he was diagnosed with COPD several years ago. She changed some of the meds he was taking, and has ordered a ton of tests, which created more appointments at various places. She also referred him to a cardiologist for a stress test to make sure that his shortness of breath is not being partially caused by an underlying heart problem. He has not been to that appointment yet. Some weeks we have had three appointments. It does seem like that is all we do right now. All of the places we have been going for the appointments are about 30 miles from home, so it is a 60 mile round trip. By the time we get home, I am exhausted, and spend the rest of the day in my recliner, sleeping.

My Mother’s Dementia Has Gotten Worse

My younger sister, Linda, has taken care of Mama for many years. But, she has a new job with the sheriff’s office, and can’t take off work as much as she did at her old job. I have been taking Mama to her doctor’s appointments for the last year or so, which is a 90 mile round trip for me. In the last few months, Mama has gotten to the point where she needs a wheelchair to get around, and her dementia has gotten bad. She fell twice in her hallway because she forgot to use her walker. The last time she fell, she was admitted to the hospital, and was taken from there to a rehabilitation facility for physical therapy. My siblings and I met and decided that it was time to move Mama to an assisted living apartment. This has not been an easy decision. It has been emotionally and physically draining on all of us. Linda and her husband Alan took Mama to her new home yesterday.

The decision to move our mother to assisted living meant we have had to empty her house and put it on the market to sell it. She has been living in her house for 51 years. Every closet, every drawer, every kitchen cabinet, was packed full of her life. She kept everything. Every greeting card anyone ever sent her. Every scrap of paper. We even found three pairs of pants that belonged to our brother who died in 1979. I made the trip to Mama’s house every other day, a 90 mile round trip, for almost two weeks. On the days I didn’t go, I slept in my recliner. If I didn’t have to take Fabgrandpa to an appointment. That monumental task is complete for the most part. We are now hoping her house sells quickly.

My Son Is Getting A Divorce

Owen and Amelia with Fabgrandpa at Michael's graduation last year. — Owen and Amelia with Fabgrandpa at Michael’s graduation last year.

While this is not my story to tell, it does affect me. I have been so sad for him, and have been grieving along with him over this loss. His wife left with Owen and Amelia, my grandson and granddaughter, in May, and went back to England. I haven’t seen them since before Easter. I may never see them again. My heart is broken, and I feel like it will never recover. I feel like a fraud calling myself Fabgrandma, because I don’t feel so fab at all.

So, there you have it. The reasons I have not been motivated to write. I am participating in the ProBlogger Challenge – 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back. Go check out the podcast if you would like to participate.

Community Coffee Tailgate Traditions

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I received samples of Community Coffee.

If you have never heard of or tried Community Coffee before, you really should give it a try. The coffee is very good, but what I like best about the company is that they have a tradition of giving back to their community. There are several ways they do this.

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Save $10 at Select Food Lion Stores #FoodLionVisaMC10 Thru 8/9

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If you’re like me, you love saving money. And this offer at select Food Lion Stores is a pretty good money saver. Just just buy $100 or more in Visa or MasterCard Gift Cards, and get a coupon good for $10 off your next shopping trip to Food Lion. Easy peasy, save the money!

My grandson's first day of school last year. He seemed too little to go to school already! — My grandson’s first day of school last year. He seemed too little to go to school already!

With school starting soon, you can buy several Visa or MasterCard Gift Cards at your participating Food Lion store. Use them to pay for your next grocery purchase, along with the $10 coupon, and it’s an instant savings. Or, give Visa or MasterCard gift cards to your grandchildren who are going off to college, or back to school, for buying their school supplies or books. You can even use them to pay for your groceries next time you shop! It’s a great way to save $10.

Here is the deal, just so you know:

Get $10 off your next shopping order when you buy $100 or more in Visa or MasterCard gift cards at SELECT Food Lion stores.
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America’s National Parks At 100 on the Smithsonian Channel

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Because I love our national parks, and wish I still worked as a park ranger, this new one hour special is something I can not wait to see! It premiers on Sunday, August 28 at 8 p.m. ET. Here is more information on it:

It began as a radical idea to preserve a mysterious land of “boiling sulpher springs.” Now the National Park Service is 100 years old – with more than 400 places we’ve seen fit to save forever. Smithsonian Channel will celebrate the centennial with AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS AT 100 premiering Sunday, August 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The one-hour special tells the story of how this radical idea evolved into an enduring mission shaped by the creativity, resourcefulness and passion of individual Americans.

AMERICAS NATIONAL PARKS AT 100 takes an unexpected view of the first century of our National Park System. The poster-child parks like Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Canyon all have rich scenery and surprising histories. But of the more than 400 places now managed by the Park Service, many are preserved not just for their scenery, but for their importance to the American story, scientific inquiry and preservation of our national treasures.

Some parks feature fascinating backstories, while others offer modern mysteries. In the 1890s, a 16-year-old boy was riding his horse in the territory of New Mexico when he spotted a flurry of bats emerging from the hills. As he got closer, he saw the biggest and blackest hole I had ever seen, out of which the bats seemed literally to boil. The boy, Jim White, would go on to play an instrumental role in establishing Carlsbad Caverns as a national park. Over a century later, biologists Louise Allen and Nickolay Hristov are still discovering unexplored caverns and using the latest technology to create 3-D maps of them.

Americas third national park served as a natural barrier to defend Washington, DC during the Civil War. Today, Rock Creek Park is a laboratory for Smithsonian Institution scientists trying to understand how wildlife adapts in an urban environment. You think this is primarily a people park, but its really an animal park, too, Smithsonian research ecologist Bill McShea says. Camera traps have revealed the presence of white-tailed deer, wild turkeys and even coyotes.

Along with natural spaces, the National Park Service protects places of historical importance, such as the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam. These, too, are yielding modern-day discoveries. Smithsonian forensic anthropologists Doug Owsley and Kari Bruwelheide are often called upon to analyze the remains of soldiers. Telling that story…makes the event, the history, not just so much more tangible, but so much more personal, Bruwelheide says.

Other parks featured in AMERICAS NATIONAL PARKS AT 100 include Arizonas Petrified Forest, Crater Lake in Oregon, Californias Channel Islands, and one of the newest national parks, Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument outside of Las Vegas.

AMERICAS NATIONAL PARKS AT 100 is produced and written by Dan Wolf. Joy Galane and David Royle serve as executive producers for Smithsonian Channel.

Smithsonian Channel(TM), owned by Smithsonian Networks(TM), a joint venture between Showtime Networks Inc. and the Smithsonian Institution, is where curiosity lives, inspiration strikes and wonders never cease. This is the place for awe-inspiring stories, powerful documentaries and amazing entertainment across multiple platforms. Smithsonian Channel combines the storytelling prowess of SHOWTIME® with the unmatched resources and rich traditions of the Smithsonian, to create award-winning programming that shines new light on popular genres such as air and space, history, science, nature, and pop culture. Among the network’s offerings are series including Aerial America, Million Dollar American Princesses, The Weapon Hunter, Mighty Ships, Mighty Planes and Air Disasters, as well as critically-acclaimed specials that include Civil War 360, 9/11: The Heartland Tapes; MLK: The Assassination Tapes and The Day Kennedy Died. Smithsonian Networks also operates Smithsonian Earth(TM), through SN Digital LLC., a new subscription video streaming service delivering spectacular original nature and wildlife content. To learn more, go towww.smithsonianchannel.com, or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

SodaStream Petition To Add The Cannonball and The Belly Flop to the Olympic Diving Lineup

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This post is sponsored by SodaStream.

This is such a fun petition that I wanted to share it with you all!

SodaStream, the world’s No. 1 sparkling water brand and the self-proclaimed “Official Sponsor of Bubbles,” announced today its Change.org petition that asks the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to add “The Bellyflop” and “The Cannonball” to the Rio 2016 diving lineup with what is certainly last minute timing.

SodaStream’s petition seeks the official addition of these dive events—to add underrepresented “bubble-centric” sports to the Games. Ignoring the usual process required for adopting new sports (this year’s new sports include kitesurfing and golf and were announced by the IOC, like, ages ago), SodaStream is proposing The Belly Flop and The Cannonball only days before the Rio 2016 Summer Games begin. According to SodaStream, signatures are needed immediately to make the Olympics “tons more bubbly.”

“Diving in the Summer Games is super hard. Some of those divers have been training for years. They use these really high diving boards, and yet they make as few bubbles as possible!” marveled an astonished Emma Froelich-Shea, VP of Marketing for SodaStream USA. “At SodaStream, we try to put as many bubbles in the water as we can, and we make bubbles easy for everyone. Why shouldn’t Olympic diving be as easy as turning plain water into sparkling water with SodaStream? Plus, we’ve got a guy in our finance department who could totally take the Gold in Cannonball.”

People who want to support The Cannonball and The Bellyflop should go to the SodaStream Change.org petition, where they can make their voices heard while they’re automatically entered to win one of five SodaStream Rio Bubble Bundles in a random drawing. The SodaStream Rio Bubble Bundle includes a SodaStream Source Sparkling Water Maker and Sparkling Drink Mixes in Orange Mango and Berry Mix flavors. The Rio Bubble Bundle has a retail value of $112.99.

Acknowledging that “our guy in Finance” does not an Olympic team make, SodaStream is holding its own virtual team trials via social media. Hopeful contestants need only upload a photo or video of their best Cannonball and/or Bellyflop to the SodaStreamUSA Facebook page for a chance to win the Gold Medal prize of $2,016 for each category.SodaStream’s expert judges will choose one Gold Medalist in the Cannonball category and one in the Bellyflop category based on “panache, bubbles and splash.” Videos or photos must be posted before midnight Pacific on August 21, 2016, the last day of the 2016 Summer Games.

Like the petition signers, Cannonballers and Bellyfloppers over 18 will also be entered into a drawing to win one of the five SodaStream Rio Bubble Bundles. Entrants who take all three actions—signing the petition and uploading both a Cannonball and a Bellyflop—triple their chances of winning in the random drawing.

“At SodaStream, our job is to put more life into everyone’s water and more water into everyone’s life,” summarized Froelich-Shea. “We’re sure this campaign will help the IOC see the bubbly light. Also, what’s with those tiny towels they give their divers to use? We’ve got these huge beach towels that are way better.”

The SodaStream Rio Bubble Bundle (without the towel, that is) is also available at www.SodaStreamUSA.com.

Pictures and videos submitted to the SodastreamUSA Facebook page are considered SodaStream property and are subject to SodaStream USA’s social media terms and conditions. Videos that appear unsafe or encourage unsafe behavior from others will be deleted, and those entrants will be excluded from the random drawing and grand prize competition.

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