SpookyThings and Oddities, oh...and Dar Too.

Have you ever had a really, unexplainable coincidence, that was so spooky it gave you goose bumps?

Yesterday morning, John called just as I was getting into the shower.  He said he'd wait 45 minutes to take Maizey for her walk.  That would make it a bit late in the morning for their visit, but at least I would be dressed and ready for the day.

He stopped in and I was so glad to see Maizey.  She has been poorly lately and he and I both, expect one of these days soon, Maizey will be saying, "Nite Nite" for the last time.

He had just sat down to talk and there was a knock at my door.  I was expecting it to be Dar, so when I opened the door, it took me a few seconds to recognize a woman I started Kindergarten with and went all through school with.  I hadn't seen her in three years.  We squealed and hugged and squealed some more.  She was on her way to lunch with her daughter's and only had about 15 minutes.

I introduced her and John.  I just happened to mention that John grew up in Munising. (that's in our Upper Peninsula--many miles from here)

Janet said, "I have friends in Munising.  Do you know Bob and Jean Porter?"

John said, "Yes.  Bob was my neighbor.  We went to school together."

OH.  MY.  GOSH.

They started tossing out names of mutual friends--sometimes each having a hard time bringing the names up from their memory bank.  I just sorta stood back and watched.

Then Janet said, "Do you remember Pee Wee?  He worked with my husband Jack at Howell Metal."

John said, "Pee Wee?  Yeah.  I worked at Howell Metal too.  You don't mean Jack Sear do you?  Is he your husband?  I worked with him too!"

Then the light slowly started to dawn.  

John said, "Janet.  Are you Janet Sear?"

Janet said, "Yes.  What's your last name."

John told her and then the hugs came.

John turned to me and said, "My ex wife and I went to a party at their house.  Way out in the boonies."

I said, "I lived just a half-mile west from Janet and Jack's."

Then John looked back and forth at Janet and me and said, "You two girls have known each other...how long."

Janet said, "First day of Kindergarten."

I replied, "Seventy-two years."

Then Janet said, "but she's older than I am.....by two weeks."

We three stood there and looked at each other.  I said, "What a spooky coincidence.  John if you had come by earlier, you would have missed Janet."

Janet said, "I was 15 minutes early and just decided to swing in and see if I could find where you live."

John said, "I think God arranged this.  There is no other explanation."  Janet and I nodded our heads.

What a fantastic happening!  Janet also knows Merle and Pearl.  They lived across the road from one another at one time.  Janet said, "Next time I come this way, I'll stop and you and I will go and surprise Pearl!"

"She lives two houses up, in the gray house.  You'll see it on your way out."

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I had my 6th month "meet and greet" with my doctor yesterday afternoon.  He was out so I got to see his PA--whom I like better than him.

She walked into the room and the first words out of her mouth were, "Holy Shit!"

I was so shocked I said, "WHAT?"  I really never expected that kind of talk from her!

"Your blood work is amazing!  I have never seen anything like it from a person your age!"

"Yeah...doc told me in January that my blood tests were like that of a fifty year old."

"I'm a fifty year old and mine aren't this good! 

She waggled the report at me and said, "This report is like someone in their thirties!"

She lays the stethoscope on my chest, "You've got the heart of an athlete.  Strong, steady and slow.  Do you exercise a lot?"

"Never."

"You must walk a lot then?"

"Nope.  The only time I walk is when I go to Walmart, grocery shopping."

Then she put the stethoscope on each side of my neck to check my carotid arteries.  "You don't have a bit of plaque!  Do you eat a healthy died?"

"Nope".

Then she checked all over my back and had me hold my breath and then cough really hard.  "Lungs are clear and good.  No rales, no wheezes.  You stopped smoking years ago, right?"

"Nope."

Then she looked at the blood work report again.  "Your kidney and liver function is perfect!  Do you drink a lot of water?"

"Nope.  I drink a lot of Diet Pepsi though."

"How often do you drink alcohol?"

"Never."

"I don't mean like a glass of wine once in awhile, I mean like a cocktail."

"I don't ever drink alcohol.  I never have."

She stepped back and leaned against the little sink in the corner of the room.  Crossed her arms and said, "I can honestly tell you.  I have NEVER met anyone who doesn't drink a little alcohol once in awhile.  Even my minister has a little wine every now and then."

"Well, here I am!"

She shook her head and said, "Okay.  We're done here."

I stood up, she looked up at me, "I'll bet you don't have osteoporosis either, do you?"

"Nope.  I do have arthritis though."

"Well...at least that's something!"

"Okay", I said.  "I'll see you in six months?"

"How about six years!"

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It has taken me three years to get my doc to lengthen my check-up out to six months.  Because of my AGE--he thinks I should come in every four months.  I always bargained with him and went in every five months.  Then in January he said I could come in every six months.  I think.....if I am feeling well, I just might take it out to a year!!

<or, I could drop dead of pancreatic cancer by September.  We just never know.>

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I barely walked in the door when I got home and there was Dar, coming in behind me.

EGADS and LITTLE FISH HOOKS!!!

She had been back to see her "special" medical physical therapist and she wanted to tell me all about it.  She WILL have to have an EMG--the doc said there was no other way to tell what nerves are causing the numbness in her arms.  

She went into a rant about the fact that she told her son and his kids to GET OUT by the end of the month, and he still hasn't started looking for a place to rent.

"Why should he?"  I asked.  "He's got it made at your place."

"Well, he HAS to leave.  I can't stand them anymore.  I wanted Daddy to come live with me and he wants to, so........................".

"You don't think your Dad would drive you nuts after awhile too?"

"I am rethinking that.  We just found out he has an aortic aneurysm.  It's at 4.  I don't want it to rupture and him bleed all over the place and die if he's living with me!"

"Oh my Gosh, Dar.  That's very serious!"

"I know.  He's going in to a vascular specialist next week.  They are going to do an Echo on him to see just how big it is and if they will operate."

"That's a very serious operation, especially at his age."

"Well, we are going to have a birthday party for him on the nineteenth, for his ninety-fifth birthday and Father's Day."

"Gosh.  I'm sorry."

"I invited him to come live with me and now...I don't know how to get out of it."

<because it is ALWAYS all about Dar>

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Have a great weekend!  It is supposed to be hot and steamy with some bad storms around here on Saturday.  I think I will stay hunkered down inside with the A/C on and work on putting the genealogy book together.

Later--------