Wednesday, 5pm

Hi Friends,
Well, the blood test results are in and we've learned that Anne has a bladder infection as well as a UTI.  These are bein treated and Dr. Ebrahim is not overly concerned about them.

He is coming back tomorrow in the afternoon, and in the meantime he's thinking about Anne's next move and the timing of it.  I'm thinking she will be going home on Friday.  I could be wrong.  I asked Anne if she is concerned about coming home, and she responded with a question to me, whether I am concerned about taking care of her at home.  I said 'No'.

Anne and I had veggie burgers for lunch today with all the fixings.  She finished her burger, and tried to squeeze in some (guess what?) hummus.  Well, either the veggie burger, or the extra hummus made her miserably sick for this afternoon.  She had taken Dillotted before eating but it didn't do the trick this time.  The eating mystery continues.  We'll simply have to write down everything that goes into her mouth once we get home and try to find a pattern in there in terms of what's good and what's bad.  Sometimes I feel that one extra bite might put her over the limit, like trying to follow the veggie burger with hummus today.  Hopefully we can figure this mystery out over time.  As you've heard me say over and over, I wish the Lord had taken some of her appetite when he took her esophagus.

Anne took a short walk today with no walker.  Impressive.  Then late this afternoon Anne and Corina from PT went to test the stairway for the first time.  Anne climbed and descended 4 stairs and was pretty tired and dizzy from it.  This will get better with practice.  Anne is sleeping in the recliner next to me now as I write this.

Anne (and I) haved received tons of cards from all of you, all of our friends, old and new, and we wants to let you know how much we appreciate those.  They have each one been a blessing to her spirits.  Thank you everybody!!

There's not a heck of alot going on in here these last couple of days, it's almost getting boring, no IV's, no electronics (knock on wood!), and there seems to be no hurry for anyone to kick Anne out of here.  It's good, that's what Anne needs.  She's pretty much still in slow motion as of late, and that's not a bad thing, but she is getting more and more back to normal and 'with it' all the time.  Today she mentioned being challenged with her spelling.  I think she is happy that no one is chasing her out of here this time.  Lord know a mistake was made last month on that note.

Aside from all of that, I myself had an awful night of sleep last night.  It felt like I was awake all night, but it may have been just a flash in time.  I'll never know.  Anyway, I was dreaming that I was blogging from the SuperBowl Game.  I was having a terrible time, struggling to convey what was going on in the game in writing, and I couldn't figure out how to make sense of it.  I continued to wake up, telling myself to "STOP", that it didn't make any sense what I was doing, that the game was not being played yet, rather next Sunday.  But, I'd go back to sleep, toss and turn, and struggle to try and write a conversational blog about the game again and again.  It was terrible.  I know what you're asking, and 'No', I don't know who won yet.