Day 88 Friday Report

Here is Leonard enjoying his new (borrowed) adjustable bed that our good friends Pam and Chris loaned us so he could be out in the family room instead of stuck in the back of the house in the guest room. The bed is similar to a hospital bed with the head and foot being able to raise up. They brought the bed over last night and set it up and then the technican came over today and replaced all the parts so it now works. He's about to watch the Suns playoff game with hopes they will somehow win a game.

He did well this week with both therapists come and keeping him on track with his exercises. He is still having difficulty with his pinkie finger curling so he has to work at strengthing it by straightening it out. His OT got his BP raised a bit as she's trying to get him to do things and he's questioning why! He was told to get rid of the styrofoam cyclinder he was using under his elbow when he was using the slide board to get in and out of bed; she wants him to use his hand.

He has been up a lot this week and working on the computer. He installed the 2008 version of QuickBooks and was having multiple error messages so he ended up on the phone with a CSR located in India for several hours yesterday and was finally able to get it to work. The batteries on our 3 landline phones kept dying so that was trying to say the least. I think it times to replace the batteries as they are a couple of years old.

A high school friend of mine who winters in Sun City Grand came over Wed night with her husband to donate their freezer food to us as they are getting ready to return to MN next week. It was so lovely outside so we sat on the patio for our visit. She is trying to convince me to go to our 45th reunion in September. I would love to go but it will depend on how Leonard is doing and if he would be able to get along without me for a week or more. If I'm able to go I'll have to try and sweet talk my relatives to see if they can put me up while I'm there.

Monday we go to the ortho surgeon. Think good thoughts and say a prayer that he will be able to start bearing some weight. He's so ready to get started. We had to move this appt. up from our original date of 5/9 so he may not given the go ahead just yet. We can hope, can't we!