The agenda for today is the family get-together at Mom and Dad's house. We do this every Christmas Eve morning and then have a lunch of just sandwiches and chips afterwards. It will be the 7 of us, Mom & Dad, my brother, his wife and 2 kids, and my aunt.

We don't exchange gifts with my brother's family, but you'd never know it by the amount of gifts there are. My mother has always gone WAY overboard in the gift-giving department. I really don't know how she's afforded it all these years. So our Christmas at home with the kids is always extremely small compared to Christmas Eve at the grandparents. But our kids say they enjoy our little Christmas much better.

DH went up and pre-warned my mother that if she starts nagging me about my health today I am coming home. I don't need her getting my blood pressure up. She is not happy with me because I won't go to the emergency room. Well, right now this is not an emergency. If my blood pressure spikes or I start to feel really badly then yes, I will go. But I'm not listening to her comments all day long either. I know she's worried, but she really has never learned when to just be quiet.

She seems to think that things are not moving fast enough to find out what's going on. Seeing as I have a stress test on Tuesday, a nerve conduction test on Thursday, an EEG January 3rd, an appointment with an endocrinologist the 17th of January and they're sending me to a nephrologist also as soon as they can get me in, I'd say they're doing pretty darn good about getting things seen to.

The pitting edema is getting better. The 2 diuretics I'm taking seem to be handling that pretty well. I'm still pretty bloated but not so much that my knee caps feel like they're going to launch into space at any moment. LOL! The blood pressure is staying fairly low. It gets higher in the afternoon but that's probably because that's when the swelling is getting bad.

Sorry about all that. My mother can just a bit overbearing sometimes. :-)