Day 36 - May 16th

This is actually a few days because things have been hopping around here.  Saturday an neighbor from the old hood stopped by. Jan was in the Twin Cities on vacation and driving back and stopped by.  There was actually a group of girls, women, chicks, females (I give up on being PC) who stopped by and we had a very nice visit.  Shortly after they left Rich (Margaret's brother) arrived to take over caregiver duties for a week so I was able to go home (where I am now) and go back to work.  I hope he doesn't get fed up and leave, it is nice to see the kids and get back to work.  It is really very nice that he volunteered for this duty.  Matt's water polo team won Sectionals this weekend and has made it to the State Playoffs (top 8 teams in the state) and I will be able to see the first game!  Very exciting, thank you Rich!!

Sunday Margaret and Rich walked to the clinic for no good reason except to get out and walk some, later she spent time on the treadmill in the 'House'.  Don't tell anyone but there is a TV in the exercise room that most people don't know about so when 3 or 4 TVs are watching Dancing with American Idol or something stuff like that you can sneak into the exercise room and watch something good (sorry to the Dancing with the Stars and American Idol fans out there.  Actually, not to sorry).

Her pleural effusions are gone!  Yippee!!  But they still want her on the Lasix (diuretic).  But taking it every other day makes it easier.  They also reduced the amount of magnesium supplement she was taking to half.  In case you didn't know magnesium can have an less than desirable effect on the digestive system, I will leave it at that.

That's all we got for now.