I went to the imaging center and had the ultrasound test on my feet and legs this afternoon. The technician told me that I do not have a blood clot, but doesn't know what is causing the swelling.

The city picked up the brush on our street today.

I have an appointment to go to the hospital tomorrow evening and have an ultrasound Doppler test done on my foot. I sure hope they can get this straightened out soon.

It is pretty cold this morning - 48 right now, but it was colder than that when I got up.

The ladies who play bunco met this afternoon. There was a pretty good group of them.

Sis usually plays with them.

A shopper who brandished a handgun during a Black Friday scuffle at South Park Mall was within his rights, according to San Antonio police.

Officers were dispatched to the mall's Sears store about 9 p.m. Thursday in response to a call about a shooting, according to an incident report. When they arrived, they detained Jose Alonzo Salame, 33, who was holding a black 9 mm semi-automatic handgun with a black holster.

"We don't see this very often," Officer Matthew Porter said, adding that Salame did not break the law by displaying the weapon. "He was within his rights."

Police confiscated the gun, which was loaded and had one round in a chamber, the report says.

Salame reportedly showed proof that he had a concealed handgun license, and he told officers that he pulled the gun out to defend himself because he was punched in the face by Alejandro Alex, 35. Salame, who did not fire the weapon, said he feared further injury by Alex.

The store had opened its doors to Black Friday shoppers about an hour before the incident, which occurred as crowds packed into the store.

Witnesses reportedly told police that Salme had behaved rudely that morning and had provoked the situation before pulling the handgun and pointing it at Alex, though San Antonio Police Sgt. Rob Carey said at the scene of the incident that he had actually pointed it at the ground.

Roger Rivera, who was shopping in the Sears, said Salame was punched then pulled a gun. Everyone scattered, "tumbling over things, dropping boxes," Rivera said. The man who was trying to cut in line ran and hid behind a refrigerator before he fled the store.
"It kind of went a little crazy in there," Carey said.

Rivera told his kids to get down. While everyone was panicking, the man with the gun stood there, he said, and looked around, lowering the weapon.

For about 10 minutes, the shopping stopped, said Rivera, and his wife Teresa, who was also in Sears but in another part of the store. She raised concerns about whether Sears had enough security, noting that she only saw men at the store wearing "Security" vests.

Salame was released from police custody and asked to leave the store with the rest of his family. A manager gave him a store voucher, the report says.

"We're glad the incident was resolved peacefully," said Sears spokeswoman Kim Freely. "The safety of our customers and associates are our No. 1 priority."

aley@express-news.net


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Every day I seem to get a little weaker. I switched from using a cane a couple of days ago to using a walker and even with that it is easy to lose my balance.

We had a good Thanksgiving meal. Sis fixed turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, creamed corn, asparagus, cranberry salad, homemade yeast rolls and homemade mincemeat pie. It was all so good, and of course there are lots of leftovers.

I took off work a couple hours early yesterday and went to the hospital to have the x-rays. It's a good thing I did, because they were very crowded and I had to wait for over an hour. They gave me a chest x-ray and then x-rayed my right foot.

This morning I fell in the copy room at work. I think I just turned a little too fast and lost my balance, but I couldn't stop myself from falling. I will probably have some bruises, but I didn't break anything. I'm not writing all these things to complain, but instead to document them. I think very few people read this blog anyway. So it is more of a personal journal than anything else, although anyone is welcome to read it.

Sis has been driving me to work, as I can't do it lately, and she spends a lot of time here at the office with me. She didn't happen to be here when I fell, but as soon as she found out about it, she came right over.
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Sis just made a batch of homemade yeast rolls and that sure makes the house smell wonderful. We plan to have turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, asparagus, and homemade mincemeat pie, as well as the homemade yeast rolls.

The weather was warm today but the forecast is for a change over the next couple of days.

I had to switch from using a cane to a walker today. Too many falls. I sure hope this isn't permanent.

I went to the doctor this morning. He is sending me for chest and foot x-rays among other things, and he gave me another prescription. They gave me my flu shot too.

Sis went and picked up my prescriptions after work. I was too tired and in too much pain to go take the x-rays this afternoon, but I plan to do that after I get off work tomorrow.

Sis weighed the kittens this evening. Callie is the smallest and she weighs 6.8 pounds. The other three are in the 8 to 9-lb range. Buffy is the largest and he is not quite 10 pounds.

They are about 7 months old now. I wonder when they will be considered full grown - and how big they will end up being.