Splish-Splash

Pattie has had water therapy added to her routine.


Aquatics is one of the healthiest low-impact exercises one can do. It's amazing how far you can go while in the water. It's so much easier to stand, walk and move around while in the pool. Soon Pattie will be managing to do all this while on dry land.


But... for the time being, Pattie still needs a lot of assistance with day to day activities. However progress is being made. Pattie and Ted attended another Patient Conference today with her doctors and the therapists and nurses. They are scaling back on the pain medications and are charting how well Pattie is doing with her therapy. They are still keeping July 21 as a tentative discharge date.


After staying for three weeks in a hotel, Ted and Maggie Rose abandoned Pattie (her words) and went back home for 2 days. We came back on Monday only to leave on Tuesday. It seems that Ted has used up all his vacation time and even though he has a month or more in unused sick leave, the personnel department won't allow him to use that for family members. Either go back to work or take unpaid time off.


While Ted was at home for a day or so, I paid the bills and picked up some 20-25 get well soon cards and brought them back for Pattie.


Friends and Family: You will never know how much these cards - comments left on this blog - the phone calls - the thoughts and prayers and all the other kindnesses you've shown us have meant to us. They have sustained us and have enabled us to get past the difficult days Pattie faced after surgery.


Thank you and God Bless you.