The Sistahs are Here!

   My sisters Robin and Bonita and mom are here! Alas the time passed too quickly. 

We went to the farmers market and some shopping at Bealls. 

Sunday we went to church and more eating. They did all the cooking and made me laugh. Andrew says he has never seen me laugh like that before. My mom says it happens when the girls get together.

  Bruce is ever increasing. Another sleep test on Wednesday and hopefully they will fit him with oxygen. He wakes up exhausted. He feel asleep while my sisters were here and that is not an easy task.

  Andrew is working at J C Penny's. He does floor and freight. He scans items  and hangs them up. Can't wait to by a bra from him. Who wants to join me? He turns a lovely shade of red.

  Duncan has been sick so I have done his shift and driving for a couple of days. I'm exhausted. My friends wanted to take me to a quilt retreat. I'm afraid all I would have accomplished would have been sleeping all day.

  Bruce is steadily improving. They had him shuffle walking with assistance. He says it is like when he first started to shuffle walk in the pool. He wears a harness and doesn't have any body weight, they will steadily add weight.

  They are working on strengthening his knees now.

End of Summer

Summer is almost over.

   Bruce is improving. He stands up five times in a row, four sets, so twenty times at PT. in pool time he stands up, walks and pushing off the wall with one leg at a time and stretching. They have him standing up using a walker and standing up using a transfer pole. We have a pole for the house, won't set it up until they train us at home how to help him. 

  Dan and Heidie came for a visit. Heidie helped rearrange the furniture. The living room is more open, I love it. They helped us with several projects around the house. I love hearing 'grandma' from a squeaky little voice. What joy!

  We are going to order a tall love seat for Bruce so he can slide board evenly, not uphill and that will get him out of the wheelchair. He is looking forward to that. 

  We purchased a clap lamp for the bedroom. Bruce reads in bed now and can claps to turn the light off. His finger tips are numb and he can't feel the light switch to turn the lamp off so he claps to turn the light off and I don't have to take my grumpy self in there to see what he needs.He says it is another step to independence.