Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The Chair Is Here! Plus Other Stuff

We bought a really cool recliner the first week of July. They put a rush on it to get it to our apartment in two weeks. Three calls later, each call declared it would arrive in only 10 more days. 

Oh its not as big as the one we had in TX. No body makes that size anymore. For tall recliners, now there are only sizes gargantuan and double wide. Those are bigger than a love seat. But we finally found one that could fit in the apartment.

It is not as big as those others but it fits well enough. Raymon's feet still hang off but his head is supported!!! 
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Fascinating what each of the new docs exclaim. 

Perhaps I should not agree so quickly, but of course I do!

Anyway, just hearing that another medical guy listened and then said something else makes you feel better. So that's where we are.

PT gave him new exercises yesterday and new goals. 

In fact, all the docs have given him new information, told him these are the problems now and how he could better work on his recovery. 

So guys, we are on the better course. That means life is in the "now-changing-mode" rather than "recovery-mode". He is not out of the woods yet, but the path is no longer uphill.

So what's up with your lives these days? 

Better to email Raymon at fullertoniii@yahoo.com this time. He'd love to hear from you! I love reading your comments here too!!!

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Several vital parts of our lives are returning--the Male Downtown Glee Club will reopen after a dark summer. Raymon will most likely go back and join the guys. Our volunteer day at the hospital down the street known around town as the Allen Pavilion will restart on a Wednesday. (We are thinking about two days a week.) He is going to wait a while longer for the AUX police beat. Sadly, due to Sandy, the South Street Seaport Museum is not going to reopen. However, there may be something there other than the Museum.

At present he is writing about his encounters with New Yorkers. Since meeting a New Yorker normally takes about 5 seconds unless you are trapped on a subway train, these events are more like brief encounters. Unless you meet Raymon that is! :-)

I've been writing preteen fiction and having lots of fun. It is also pre-editor:-) May that is why it is still fun?

Goodbye friends. Send your thoughts and prayers our way and let us know yours.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Juggling Dove Bars

Back again from that other blog, Updates, Raymon. Frankly I'm not really too sorry to be away so long. Keeping blogs straight according to what is happening requires focus, which I seem to be in short supply of these days.

But I did want to share this little tale I wrote on Updates, Raymon with all of Apt. 3 G readers. It just a memory really. Life then and now...enjoy.



Tonight we had a tasty treat, a Dove Ice Cream bar. 

That single luscious indulgence is a trip down memory lane for us.

Walking NYC's 5th Avenue from lower Manhattan to the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center on Christmas Eve became our tradition back in the 1980s. One of those years, we tasted roasting chestnuts, yuck. Trust me, the song is so much better. 

Some time around 1985 I think, we were approached by a rolling refrigerated cart and a young man, equally refrigerated. As I recall, we all were refrigerated. It was freezing but no one seemed to mind. It was the perfect weather for Christmas Eve in New York City.

[You know, this could have been a street festival in China Town. Christmas Eve makes a better story. Proceed.]

The young man approached us with a test product called Dove Bars. They were not yet on the market. He was passing them out, asking folks to give them a try and what they thought.

Its been almost 30 years since that original Dove Bar. My 1st in NYC. Tonight was my 2nd in NYC. 

I'm glad we got to try it all those years ago. Kinda makes you wonder if something we said had anything to do with them being here today. 



excuse me, my mind is going to wonder now...