Yes ampicillin is a penicillin type drug if not THE penicillin! Yogurt will help if they are giving him some. I'll be up tomorrow to see them! Will report afterward. Pat did you go yesterday? I know Sunday is your day usually and just wondered how they were. Love to all, Judy

I don't know about that drug they have Dad on, but from the sound of it I'd say it was penicillin based.  This might really tear up Dad's gut..adding yogurt and bananas might help...might explain why he doesn't feel like eating.  I probably won't come over until Tuesday...Monday they're supposedly going to finish the last of the inside work and I have a meeting at 3.  Judy, if you want, change your days or add an extra day and we can visit for awhile on Tuesday.  We just got in from the Murray State game...heartbreaking loss....but still exciting up to the last seconds...literally!!  I'm hitting the showers and the bed...it's been a long week and a long weekend.  Love you all,  Jamie

Good report Mrs M!! You're so right about the beautiful weather! Bryan has rented out his house majorly unexpected and we have all been moving stuff into Leisa's and out of Bryan's! The lady wants to move in on 10/22 and he has someone who is going to paint the whole inside between now and then! Plus we're having a yardsale over there on 10/15! lots of changes going on between those 2 houses! Katilyn and I worked on her bedroom today and gathered the rest of her stuff for yardsale, keep or trash because Austin is moving into her room and Austin's is going to become the man cave for all Bryan/Austin hunting stuff!! I've bee busy busy!! I plan to come up Sunday and go see Mom and Dad on Monday if as stay status quo! Lol I'll post when I make it there! Love to all, Judy

Hey, I'm glad something about you is 'normal'! LOL! Seriously, that IS good news! Hopefully, it is NOT c-diff or whatever the heck that is! I DID go see Mom and Dad today. Not a bad visit---not a great visit---but an ok visit. Neither was worse---that is good. Dad looked pretty good, but he didn't eat much of his lunch. Not the cake, not the bowl of black-eyed peas, not all his fish, not many of his fries. He said he wasn't hungry. I kept asking him and even handed him his cake with a fork. He took one bite and then put it down! He kept trying to get into the trash on the medicine cart! I got him out of it a couple of times telling him it was trash. He said something about tobacco and not having any for a long time. I told him there was always tobacco at the desk. Debbie got him some when we got back to the big commons area, but they took Dad to check him and put him in bed! I just put the tobacco beside his bed on the little table. He did call me by my name and did ask about Judy when I told him she would be there next week because she was sick today. (I told him she had a cold and didn't want to give it to everyone!) Anyway, they had taken Mom to the beauty shop and cut her hair + styled it into a big kind of bouffant style with lots of hairspray!!!!!!!!!!! I'm like 'WHAT ON EARTH!" The one girl (I believe her name is Misty) said she knew it hadn't been me who asked for the haircut since I hadn't mentioned it! Mom's hair is right at the bottom of her ear. Ok, that is not too bad, BUT I told her NO to going back to the beauty shop next week and NO MORE haircuts! She said she bet Tracy had something to do with it because she had her nose in things she didn't need to. She also told me that she nor Margaret nor Adrianne (sp?) used the hoist thing to get Mom in and out of bed. That was Tracy's idea, also, she said. She said they all thought it GAVE Mom skin tears because it scrunched her all up. Those three girls thought that just getting her in and out of bed with their own power was better. Anyway, no one knew if Dad had eaten much at breakfast---not Debbie or any of the girls. The med Dad is on is Amphicillian (sp?). Debbie said they'd given him Cipro last time and since it didn't work, they were giving him another type this time. Ok, that's about it. It has been SO beautiful here the last couple of days it makes you appreciate just being alive! How awesome to see/enjoy and just be on these special days! We have so few of them every year! ENJOY! Love you all, Jeanie

Don't know about my culture but get this--- she had blood drawn when I was there at 10 and just now when I checked my email, the test results from blood work were on my electronic medical record that I have access to!! How cool is that?? All blood work was normal by the way! Yeaaa!! Jeanie went today and she'll post later but it wasn't a bad visit!! I'll give you that much info!!lol NOT that it was great though but ok. Love to all, Judy

Finished with doctor and she doesn't know about cdif so having to do a stool specimen!! Yuck!! She said she would think I'd be really sick if I did have it but definitely have some symptoms. Exam was normal though so who knows! Staying home till I find out something. Love to all, Judy

Judy, I hate that you're sick...do you really think you have c diff? YUCK...I'm with Jeanie, I don't love diarrhea..just the thought of it makes me want to have it!! Sorry, that's gross!!  I hope you're feeling better soon!!!  Just a quick note to say I'm not heading that way tomorrow..Teresa is coming to do the last few things around the house and put the shutters on and collect the last payment!!:)   I have Jerry come out but he has that his and hers golf tourney that the hospital is sponsoring.  Jason is spending the day in the library and doing "pledge" work, so unfortunately, I'm it!!  I will definitely come next week...possibly Monday and bring the footballs too!  Had a super time today with Herschel...literally the nicest guy ever! The MSU Racers were absolutely thrilled...players and coaches and the hospital staff was beyond stoked...we were 45 minutes late getting to lunch because the crowd was so huge to see him!  He's got a Nashville connection, so maybe we can get him back one day.  His visit to Fort Campbell put him at over 10,000 troops he's talked with since he started touring.  He's even done a trip to Iraq...truly a celebrity doing good! Any way, I'm getting back to doing some of Jason's laundry...he's staying with us tonight...funny, he seems so grown up in just this short amount of time!  Good kid I think though...I hope so!!   Love you all, Jamie