California Here We Come

Are you kidding? Laureen and Lisa were going to come to Arizona on February 23 to visit and to help mom settle in a bit, and due to some medical concerns, they were unable to make it. So what did we decide to do? We will go to them!

That is not always a simple thing anymore with dialysis, but after taking matter into our own hands, (Laureen's hands with my assistance), we had all the arrangements made for dialysis in Anaheim. Yes, you may consider that morning to be a bit of a "manic" morning, but dad would be so proud as we were able to circumvent the usual routine and 30 day advance notice required to arrange dialysis in another city, and had made contact, a chair secured, medical records forwarded, and the car loaded all in the same day. Tuesday afternoon, the 24th we headed off to sunny California!

We spent the night at Laureen's then headed south to meet Lisa and her two kids between Anaheim and San Diego. What a beautiful drive, and mom was so excited to see the kids. We met at a Subway, had lunch, transferred Lisa's luggage and boxes of scrapbook supplies (because we were going to "create" while we were there, and headed back to Anaheim.

We timed this very conveniently even though it was all last minute as Dave and Leslie were going to be in Las Vegas for a shoot the following weekend and they were able to make arrangements to meet us at Laureen's and play with us for a few days! He was going to meet us on Friday!