June 21, 2016
10:51 p.m.

I have had an eventful week. For me, this is unusual. Generally speaking, I'm a stay-at-home kind of gal. Even when I spent a month in Wyoming with my parents, I was staying home most of the time.

Not this past week, though. Busy, busy.

On Wednesday, I went to a long awaited appointment for a gastric emptying study. This test was ordered because my doctor suspected I have a condition called Gastroparasis.

It's pretty interesting, actually. I went in at about 7:30 in the morning and checked in. I was taken to the Nuclear Medicine department in Radiology, and given a breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast. The eggs were special: radioactive.

The radioactive markers in the eggs make it possible to track how quickly or slowly food leaves the stomach and enters the digestive tract. The took pictures right after I ate, then at hours one, two and four.

I spoke to the doctor's office today and was told that the results were in "normal limits". I'm not sure of that completely rules out Gastroparisis or not, and what the doctor will want to do next, if anything.

All I know for sure is, I haven't felt well in over a year, I do much better when I don't eat much at all, and if I do eat particular foods, I am in pain. So, whatever.

I'm fine with continuing to eat small, bland and mushy meals. I hope the doctor just tells me to do that. I'm pretty tired of going to appointments.
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Also on Wednesday, my son and daughter-in-law went and picked up the grandchildren and brought them home. On Thursday we had a day of preparation, went shopping for lunch makings and planned our trip to Denver Comic-Con.

Very early on Friday morning, the kids and I took the bus to downtown Denver and picked up their badges for Comic-Con. Then we walked around the Colorado Convention Center to join the line and wait for the doors to open. since we did arrive so early, we were near the front of the line.

I decided to Cosplay this year, and went as Annie Wilkes from Misery. Sadly, no one recognized the character. But I thought it looked pretty good!

We met some interesting characters while waiting for the doors to open.

The doors opened about fifteen to twenty minutes late, but most of those waiting were good-natured about the delay. Since we'd arrived to pick up the kids' badges well before 8:00 a.m., I was pretty impressed with how patient the kids were.

Once inside, we got to check out a lot of cool cosplayers.

We got to indulge our Star Wars fantasies.

We went to panels and met some stars. Andrea Libman, David Acord, Todd Haberkorn, Vic Mignogna:

Todd Haberkorn with my granddaughter:

John De Lancie with my grandson:

These people were incredibly nice to my grandchildren and me, and it made us so happy to meet them. 

No matter how prompt you are, conventions are all about lines. It's hard to wait, but almost always worth it. 

On Saturday, we went straight to the line to wait to meet Cary Elwes. That, my friends, was an incredibly long line. We waited over two hours to meet with him. TOTALLY WORTH IT!! 

I regret that I was not rich enough to purchace autograph plus photograph, and since I purchased his book, As You Wish  over a year ago, I got the autograph and call it good. Cary Elwes is a very, very nice man who treated my grandchildren with affection and respect, and they were delighted with him. So was I. 

We then went to a screening of Episode 6 of "Star Trek Continues", a web series starring Vic Mignogna and Todd Haberkorn. I hadn't seen it before, but I plan to check out the series on YouTube this week. The episode we viewed was really good!

Next, we lined up yet again for the Cary Elwes panel. It was full of fans and we enjoyed it very much.

It's hard to get a good picture when you're so far away! Thank goodness for the big screens!!

After we left and bussed our way home we joined my daughter, son-in-law and his mother for a barbeque dinner and the kids went home with their parents so they could spend Father's Day with their Dad.

I think they've been left with some really good memories!

Sunday was the final day of Denver Comic-Con, and on this day I attended alone. I went to the Star Trek 50th Anniversary panel:

I went to the Jeffrey Dean Morgan panel:

Then I attended some writers' workshops that the kids would probably not appreciated had they been with me. I always enjoy things like that, so I'm glad I got to see a couple of them. 

By Sunday night, when I got home, I was super-pooped. My knee hated my guts. And speaking of guts, my guts hated my guts, too, because I had the nerve to eat a hamburger for lunch. I walked over to the 16th Street mall and went to Red Robin--Yum! Took me most of the day to eat my lunch, and it was delicious. Belly-ache--yeah. But yummy! 

Come Monday, I was ready to rest my bones and so I spent the day trying to figure out Windows 10. There are so many things I love about it, but for some reason, the resolution choices are not working out on my computer screen, and so for the moment I have switched back to Windows 7. I'll probably make the change to 10 in the future, though. I really love the photo editing program. I'm missing it already. 

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Well, it is time for me to catch up on "Game of Thrones". I have somehow managed to avoic all the many, many spoilers out there, but it's not likely that I can continue to do so. There are just too many!

Good-night!