Please don't ask why I have two or more sizes type in this post. I only typed it in one size.
It has been a long time since I posted anything, New Years day to be exact. Why, I don't know, but that's the way I am. I go hard after things I'm interested in, and then for no reason at all, I lose interest and stop. I'll try to do better than this. It shouldn't be to hard to raise my posting from nothing to something.
Yun hurt her back about 3 1/2 months ago. She went see our family Doctor (Sam A. Khair). He referred Yun to a Doctor Ploska. Went to see him. He diagnosed her as inflammation of the tissue around her spinal disks and referred her to Doctor Cherukupally about doing a spinal cortisone epidural. She has to have a series of three epidural. She has already had two and still has pain. One more to go on 3 July 2008. Simultaneously, Yun was referred to a Doctor of Physical Therapy (Coy Everette III). Yun says Doctor Everette handles the therapy personally, is very professional, and works muscles that she didn't even know she had. She undergoes physical therapy twice a week for 4 weeks, after which Doctor is to report back to Doctor Cherukupally. Doctor Cherukupally will then discuss with us whether is a need for surgery. If needed, back to Doctor Ploska.So, Yun has seen 4 doctors. We appreciate them trying to repair her back without automatically doing outpatient surgery. Well, actually Mom not so much because she wants fixed now and who can blame her. She takes Oxyco/apap for the pain, but she doesn't want to get addicted so she is really, and I mean really, hurting when she takes one. I know when she is really hurting because I tend to walk around holding my bloody head in front of me.
We were blessed yesterday. Yun went to our local Ingles supermarket. Because of her back causing so much pain if she stands more than a few minutes, she rode on a electric scooter. She went through the store, the check out counter, and then to the car. At the car, one of the store employees helped her load her purchases. When she got home and we had off-loaded her purchases, she couldn't find her purse. A panicked short drive later she had her purse again. Someone had turned it in to the store management. Nothing was missing. It shouldn't have surprised us but it did. We were certain we would spend the rest of the day reporting lost information and renewing same.
Yun and I still watching a daily regimen of Korean television dramas and movies. The South Korean population copy everything western, not just unique to the United States, but also Europe. This is both a blessing and curse as most cultures through history have tended to accumulate the worst of the culture right along with the best. As an example, the sleepy South Korean farm villages of 40 years ago seem to be mostly gone, with gangster operations rampant along with drugs, booze, loud music, etc.
Sassy and Lady are still well, although Sassy is now very old. We dread the time when she will no longer be with us.
On a brighter note, Michelle is awaiting acceptance into a medical school. She just finished taking the MCAT and it can take a year to hear from the schools.
See ya next time.
Yesterday was New Years Eve and Yun and I spent a quiet evening at home watching a Korean soap series with English subtitles. Called Emperor of the Sea, it can be found on aznv.tv. It has 51 one hour long episodes. Yun and I are up to episode 20 and are greatly enjoying it. At the time the story unfolds (850 AD), the Korean peninsula was divided into three kingdoms: Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla. This series depicts the lives of groups of merchants fighting for possession of Chinese shipping rights along a 1114 mile long, sometimes natural and sometimes man made "Grand Canal". The grand canal stretched from Hangzhou, about 100 miles below Shanghai, to present day Beijing. It is replete with the slice and dice sword fights expected of series involving old kingdom feuds and has the also expected love story interest.
TOMORROW Yun and I celebrate our birthday, and TODAY, Michelle and Steven had us drive up to mid-town Atlanta to be treated to breakfast at The Flying Biscuit. Really great non-chain restaurant. Really good biscuits and the apple butter is excellent. Then, they took us to the Atlanta Aquarium were we spent several hours wandering though the tanks of fish. Yun and I have visited only one other aquarium, in Chattanooga, and Atlanta wins hands down. Frankly, it's hard to believe that there is any other aquarium that is better, unless it is the one that has the Blue Whale. Oh, that's right, no Aquarium has one. After that, Michelle and Steven took us for lunch at the Vortex as well, We had, arguably, the best burgers I've eaten yet. I'll get the name from Michelle and Steven and edit this site to steer you there. I do know it was on 10th Street in mid-town about 100 yards from the Metropolis but on the opposite side of the street, headed away from I-75, next to a strip club. Good food and good service.
All in all, it was the best birthday celebration that Yun and I have ever had. Best of all though was that the Kids shared it with us.
More later (There's always more, later not so much.)
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