Day 33 - May 13th

I was going to make a post last night but the blog server had everything 'read only' so they could fix some problem.  Thursday Margaret had her second biopsy and the results were NO REJECTION!  Yippee! This is good news, Happy Days!!

Her pleural effusions (fluid around the lungs) was much better, almost gone.  Because of this they have reduced her Lasix (diuretic) to only once every other day now which means maybe she can get a good night sleep.

Rehab is still going well, she has it three days a week and so far so good.  She's walking better every day. When the weather is good we wake to and from the clinic.  We walked around Wallmart today without any problems.

We had some extra time the before her biopsy on Thursday so we went and walked through the chapel at St. Marys.  Wow, very amazing place.  I really can not do it justice with words but if you are ever here it would be worth taking 15 - 30 minutes to see it, especially since it was built in 1932.  It would also be good if you knew latin since most of the writing on the walls/ceiling is in Latin.

The 'House' had an ice cream social on Wednesday, the sisters and the Mennonite helpers were on hand to pass out ice cream sundaes and root beer floats.  The weather was nice and everyone sat out on the porch.  It was a nice event that let us all talk with one another.  You can do this at meals if you are the patient but the caregivers are busy cooking or cleaning up so there is not much time to just talk.

A sister told us today that there are 22 people moving in on Sunday, I know a good number of people went home yesterday and today and it was pretty quite at dinner tonight, not the normal chaos in the kitchen, more like organized chaos.  Sunday should be interesting!