We Come Home Tomorrow!

   Our first visitor today was Jaycee, a service dog. Bruce got to pet her. She is part poodle and golden lab, very friendly.

   Bruce is very tired, was up a couple of times last night. Of course he is trying to sleep and he gets interrupted every ten minutes and then it is lunch time.

 Tanner and Tyler brought us the sacrament this afternoon from the Bitterroot ward. 

   The pic line is out, the leash, I mean the catheter is out and we are ready to come home. The wound vac has arrived, they will put ours on Bruce's wound tomorrow. 

  Bruce's kidney count is down, they will do one more lab tomorrow. He has been on oxygen at night He sleeps so deeply his oxygen count goes down. We will do a sleep test when we get home.

         Houston it looks like a go to come home tomorrow.

Family Visit

   My mother and sistah, Bonita and her lovely daughter came for a visit. It is what I needed. We went to cracker Barrel twice and Olive Garden once. Hog heaven, slurp, slurp.  And maybe we did some shopping. My 80 something mom got a coloring book with fashion designs in it. She already had colored pencils. Coloring is apparently the newest thing to distress. I showed her the Duolingo app for free for her iPad. She is learning Italian again. Our family was stationed in Italy when I was young and mom remembers some of it.

   Bonita brought me a recorder and book so will get busy on that. She wants the ukulele back, no problem man. I do not like to say good bye.

  Josie painted our toenails. Very comforting.

  Thank you Ortons for letting my family take over your basement,

 I went home for three days, paid some bills, cleaned the house and found some hand sewing projects to work on. And something new to teach Janie.

   Menu options in the cafeteria this week. Meals are $4 and the salads are great. Today the non patients had hot dogs and onion rings. Only thing offered. Not my favorite but I love onion rings.

  Looks like we will get to go home on Friday or Saturday, a couple of days early. They took him off the antibiotics. Bruce's kidneys are not doing something according to blood tests. The antibiotics he was on have that side effect. So if they are functioning properly we get an early out. 

  I am not looking forward to it. It will mean Duncan and I will have to do the turning every two hours. I need my sleep. Maybe I will sleep on the couch. Andrew might take a night too so that will help.

  Otherwise the wound is healing and is healthy. He has lost almost all movement in his legs. He needs to be ranged twice a day. We will do that at home as I will help to do it. 

  It is raining. The earth is getting cleansed. I am taking a nap.

Slowly Getting Stronger

   Bruce had therapy, he used the table bicycle for ten minutes, the pulleys and then lifted 20 lbs. it wore him out. At least we are not starting with 3/4 lbs this time last year.

   Jean Secl came to visit. It is wonderful to see faces from home and to get away for a bit. We went to Wendy's for dinner, then over to the bookstore to pick up an order I made last week.

   Bruce stood up to day. He is weak and it wore him out but he said his muscles liked it.  Bruce has a Skype meeting with Pres. Chadwick and Pres. Richards tonight. 

Ann and Lee Flower stopped in. Thank you for letting us talk and listening to us.

   Bruce has been sleeping a lot, he gets waken up every two hours day and night to change positions so no pressure on his sore. 

    Robert skyped us. It is most excellent to see the grandchildren. 

   Luke called his father in law passed away on Monday. What a shock, he is only 50. He died in a plane wreck. They are in Cedar City for the funeral. 

   Mom, sistah Bonita and her daughter Josie are here for two days. 

Dad sent a gift certificate to Cracker Barrel and we stuffed our faces. I mean we had a pleasant dinner and quiet social time. Tomorrow we will go for retail therapy.

Boise, ID

   We arrived in Boise n Thursday and got Bruce settled in his room. We will be here 2 - 3 weeks, insurance pays up to 25 days. 

Here is the address if you want to send balloons, cards, chocolate, flowers or treats, oh my.

Southwest Idaho Advanced Hospital Care

Room 216 Bruce Kevan

6651 Franklin Rd, Boise, ID 83709

A lot of the staff remember us and are glad to see Bruce's improvement from last year.

  Bruce slept most of Saturday and today. Eating seems to perk him right up.

He asked for a blessing and Pres. Orton and his son, Devin came over. 

Lonnie Robinson and her husband came over to visit this evening too. I stayed with them last time I was here. They are very kind to us. 

  So we locked the keys in the black car and the nice locksmith came to our rescue this morning. He used a device like a blood pressure tool that inflates a space inside the door then he inserts a long orange wire with hook and the door was open in less than 30 seconds. He said he does 20 - 30 cars a day. He charged us $54. A lesson learned. He sent us a receipt by email fo us to use with our insurance and to make sure we are not stealing the car. We look honest, don't we...

   Duncan went home today. He was here long enough to get me settled but staying in a hospital watching his dad sleep gets a little old after a while. I am staying with Janie and Pres. Orton. I am more comfortable with La Grande folks and I have the whole basement to myself. Visiting hours here are 8am to 8pm. Hopefully PT and OT will begin tomorrow. We need Drs permission for him to sit up on his wound. The weather here is warm enough for hm to go outside so maybe we can do lunch outside tomorrow.