When it rains it POURS !!!!!

All day we have waited for a storm to roll in from down south. I spent a lot of the afternoon on our back deck looking out over the water of the Pumistone Passage and watching the weather slowly change from bright sunshine to light cloud....then darker and darker clouds. Around 8pm the rain, thunder and lightning started. Wow....do we ever get WEATHER here !!!!!
The lightning was scary, but fabulous to watch from our darkened living room. It looked like daylight at times it was so bright.

Perry has a firmish date for surgery. He will be having a total knee replacement on or close to November 6....yeayyyy. He has had relief from Restless Leg Syndrome of the severest type for almost a year now (due to the drug he has to take every six hours) and after what we hope will be successful surgery on his left knee...no more pain from arthritis and the Bakers cyst behind his knee. He will have his right knee replaced also in due course. The damage to his right knee is greater than the left, but the pain he suffers in the left knee means that he will have that one taken care of first. We don't have Private Health Insurance, so the government pays for all our medical needs including these major surgeries. When we lived in the U.S. we had medical insurance up until 5 months before we moved here....during that time neither of us had any doctors visits, but if we had....the cost was huge and we just took our chances with our health as minimum coverage was going to cost $600 a month due to the fact that Perry had a skin cancer removed.

Heard from Pam today...all well with them....Stu has enlisted the help of a personal trainer at the gym he goes to....Thank you God. His weight has ballooned over the past few years and it puzzles me as to why many religious people overeat. Gluttony is one of the 7 deadly sins. I know one thing for sure...temptation seems to be around them more than many people as there is constant socializing which entails large amounts of high fat and high calorie foods being present at all the get togethers they attend. Yummy food is tempting at any time and since the sixties contrary to what many believe....food in this country has become very cheap and plentiful...also the fast food industry hardly existed....now it seems to part of the staple diet of a large percentage of the population and the result is ....1 in 4 children are overweight or obese...adults it's higher. If this keeps going, the next generation will die younger than this generation. Type 2 diabetes has exploded, and we now have an industry called 'the weight loss' business. Children especially don't get anywhere near the exercise they need for weight control. Both Pam and Stu are very vigilant about the amount of T.V. watched and video games played in their home. The good health messages that are constantly projected at school are hopefully making a start on turning around what is now considered an epedemic.

Boy....that was a soap box blog !!!!