I admit that I spoil my children still so I usually make
candy for them during the Christmas season. Sometimes my
son will request that I cook something that he has a
hankering for. I always comply. It is usually chocolate
pie or lasagna. I sent half of the last batch of fudge
home with him. When I picked up Adrienne and Ashley, they
both complained that they had only received one piece each
and that Dad had locked the rest in his car. Since we had
plenty left, I packed up another batch for them to take home.
When Ellie picked up the girls, she said, "We had fudge? I
didn't get a single piece!" Adrienne said, "It is Dad's car
fudge and he doesn't share.

We are still on the medical merry go round. We saw the
neurologist yesterday
and there is yet another test on
Monday. It is an EMG and I have no idea what it is. We
average two to three visits a week and both of us are so
anxious to be free again. I see my physician once a year
but Ted has just fallen apart all at once. I believe it
is due to his exposure to agent orange in Vietnam in 1968
and l969.

Health is so important to happiness. Chronic pain is like
a witch on your back that never lets up. He is in that
period of waiting to get the pain stimulator back. The l7th
is going to be a red letter day for us.

I hope it will be warm today because I need to do battle
with the leaves again as well as the sweet gum balls. My
neighbor told me that they had filled 30 fifty five gallon
trash bags with leaves and had more to go. We are having
this severe leaf problem because Hilltop road dead ends right in front of our houses and the north wind makes us
a gift of their debris.