fireworks

I am working on the fourth of July, so we went to see fireworks on Friday. We then found out that we didn't have to, as we had a great view of a fireworks display Sunday night from the parking lot here. We were pretty close on Friday, and Bob was scared of all the noise, so we had to stay in the car. The fireworks on Sunday were pretty far away, so Bob wasn't scared of the noise so we didn't have to go in the car.
Bob is a fish in the water. When people see him swimming, they guess his age wrong because he swims so well. We went swimming Sunday night and we had a blast.

We went to a monthly kids club thing at the mall today (Monday). They have singing, dancing, and storytelling at the indoor play area at the mall. Bob just enjoyed going down the slide over and over again. We may frequent there this month on my days off as it is air conditioned and we cannot go to the playground when it is 110++ degrees outside.

I started writing this blog on Monday and did not finish it. I am just getting to it now. I worked last night, but I am off tonight. Jim and Bob went out on the grass in the golf course and watched some fireworks up in the sky. They were set off a couple of miles away again, so Bob was not scared.

Bob is currently wearing Big Boy pants tonight. He decided he wanted to wear them earlier this evening. It was right after a wet pull-up. He has not yet peed in them or on the potty. He just got off the potty from trying to go without success. He insisted that he did not have any pee pee to make. Less than two minutes later I hear him say "I want new pants." He was standing in the dining room with a tell-tale dripping of water down his leg. He still has not pooped on the potty since that last time back in April, but I am sure he will be potty trained before kindergarten. In a way, I am glad he has not been going poop on the potty. One of the Thomas trains with one of the DVD's he has for reward for going poop was recalled - made in China with lead based paint. Our next trip to Costco we will return it to the store - they are accepting them back.

As for the sale of our house, we hit a minor roadblock. It seems when we bought the house, a copy of the death certificate of Mrs. Mariani was not included with the deed. Al (the previous owner) had his niece do the closing for him. She was not a real estate lawyer. She probably did not know to include a copy of the death certificate. I am angry with the lawyers I had for my closing when I bought the house as they did not realize that there was no copy of the death certificate. The house was deeded to Al and his wife and she died. He signed the property over to me. Without a copy of the death certificate on the deed, I would need her signature as well to legally take ownership of the property. So, technically, the house still belongs to her.
My current lawyer tried to contact Al's lawyer (his niece) and she has since died. Al moved someplace down south, and he was close to eighty years old at the time. I am sure he is no longer among the living. My current lawyer contacted all the municipalities in the area to try and track down the death certificate without success. The death certificate is filed in the town where someone dies, not where they lived. She did not die locally. My lawyer found some Mariani's in the the phone book, but they were not related (The prunes I bought a few weeks ago were Mariani brand - it is a common name).
My lawyer wound up going to the library and looking at microfilm of old newspapers during the time period when she died (she died in 1988). The paralegal found a one line death notice in an old issue of the Press and Sun Bulletin. She died somewhere in Virginia. They now have to acquire a copy from that municipality. I don't want to know how much this search is going to cost me. Probably at least one thousand dollars. All because Al's lawyer (his niece) did not know what she was doing, and the lawyer I had at the time made a mistake and did not get a copy before the closing. The closing was supposed to be on the 9th, but I don't think it is going to be then because we don't have a copy of the death certificate yet. I did not like the idea of the closing being on July 9th anyway - 15 years after my dad's death.
I have not heard anything back about the blood tests I had. It takes a week for my doctor's office to get the results from the lab - it is a highly sensitive test that is performed in a special laboratory. My doctor won't get the results until Friday the earliest, and it may not be until Monday. It usually takes a couple of days for her to call me.
One of my co-workers was jealous that I got in to see my endocrinologist. She is diabetic, and my doctor is no longer accepting new diabetic patients at this time, so she could not get in to see her. That increased my confidence in her. After seeing Dr. Raminujin who is great with diabetics and takes weeks to get back to thyroid patients, it is a relief to have a good doctor. Ramanujin should just stop seeing thyroid patients. When he ordered the metastatic scan and ablation, he did not even realize they could do them together. He told me I would be on isolation in the hospital for the ablation, and I was not because he though I was going for the scan first and then the ablation after he had the results of the scan. Then when I told him the nuclear med doctor said I could start Synthroid, he told me I could not. It was another week later before he called back and said that I had the ablation already (which I had told him already) and asked where he could call in the prescription. This was after several phone calls from him begging him to start me on the Synthroid because my mental health was in the toilet. I had to start Ativan to deal with anxiety. He also told me I would need an annual scan where I would go off the thyroid medication for several weeks before the scan. Thyrogen has been around for a few years, and if he was keeping up to date on all aspects of endocrinology including thyroid issues, he would have known that. But, diabetes is his forte, so he does not keep up to date with thyroid issues.
When my mom calls him, he calls right back. When my sister called him several times over several weeks, it took several weeks to call her back. He needs to stop seeing thyroid patients.

It is getting late and I have to get Bob to bed. I will keep everyone updated about the house sale and my test results.