Marvelous Monday Update 5/18/09

IMPORTANT FLU UPDATE
As most of us know, the news has been inundated with warnings about the flu going around... informing us of precautions to take, etc. In addition to keeping our hands clean and covering our mouths when we cough, we also need to keep our surfaces clean. A helpful device can be found HERE.


DAD UPDATE
Anyone who's been a long time admirer of my blog, is somewhat aware of the health issues my Dad has experienced over the past several years. He's been doing pretty good during the past year and a half. In fact, I saw him on Mother's Day and he seemed fine... He rummaged through his shed to find me chicken wire and stakes for my garden.

So, when I received an email from my sister last Tuesday: "Dad's in ICU at the hospital. Don't know details. Will call when I find out." not only was I shocked, I was also very concerned. Upon immediately calling the hospital, I found out that he was in ICU because they ran out of beds on the regular floor. That's what THE NURSE said, anyway. When my Dad got on the phone, I said: "What are you doing up there?" In a cheerful voice, he said: "Resting!!" Alrighty, then!

Turns out my Dad has had a nagging cough for about 2 weeks and at 2:30am, a fever developed along with chills and a tremor in his arm that wouldn't go away. By now, my Dad has learned to NOT mess around when things don't seem right and he drove himself (and my Mom) to VA hospital and hour and half from their house.

Once at the hospital, I was given a mask and told he was in a "clean" room (isolation) because they didn't know what he had. Do you know that once you put on a mask, your nose decides to become itchy and will annoy the heck out of you the ENTIRE time the mask is on??!

On Wed, I found out that he has non-active MRSA which is also why he was in isolation. I was also told that it would take 2-3 days before swine flu test results come back.

By Day 3, my Dad was getting bored because he had no one come visit him. He told my sister he couldn't even "check out" the nurses because they had their hair and faces all covered up. He could sort see their shapes, but nothing else. ROFL!

Test results came back and he doesn't have the swine flu *whew* He's such a bugger, tho! I called Friday afternoon to find out he'd been released, so I called my Mom. She had no idea! I said, "Well, he's on his way home." LOL He was out running around by Sunday (moving a refrigerator, no less) so he must be back to par.


STITCHY STUFF
After washing the one side of Quaker Cube, the stain was barely visible but the hand-dyed floss had faded. Neither of which I'm happy with, so since it only takes me an hour and half to stitch a side, I'm started re-stitching it. Problem solved!

Last month, I mentioned that my needlebook tutorial would be featured for a week on the Needlepointers website. Oops, I thought it was the needlebook, but it's not... it's my FLATFOLD tutorial. The link can be found HERE.


SCHOOL
My Intermediate Accounting class is officially over. Much to my dismay, I passed with a "C". I didn't do so well on two tests, and even though I did well on the online assignments and the other two tests, it just wasn't enough. Had I gotten 1 or 2 more questions correct on the last test, I would've passed with a "B". I was/am really bummed about it!