I’ve been home a week now. At the moment I am tired. Just walked around the block again. This time solo. It is icy, but I do just fine. I should do this a few times a day and then start adding distance. I was reluctant to do this on my own the first few times, but it has gone well. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I never thought walking around the ( Read more... )

I'm going home a soon as we figure out the logistics. We've turned that over to Guin and Becca.

Feeling better all the time. Had a nice flow of visitors yesterday. Probably here for another day. Thank you all for the well wishes. I'll have more to say in the coming days.

Cecilia is having another birthday today!

I think that says it all.

Cecilia went in for dialysis today. After the preliminary lab tests, they said "Let's just hold off on doing it anymore" and sent her home instead. Her kidneys are apparently doing the job. Two weeks of this and the port comes out ( Read more... )

The deep concern about her kidney function is easing. The transplant seems completely successful. The other day when I saw her, she really looked herself. Her hair has grown out enough that it looks like a style that might have been chosen. Instead of sitting huddled up protectively in her chair, she was sprawled across it with one leg draped over ( Read more... )

She is far from well, but this is a major threshold on the "better" scale. She will be in no danger of becoming a stranger at the hospital. She will be doing outpatient dialysis 3 or 4 times a week and a regular battery of tests. But at the end of the day she will be in her own bed in her own room, brothers and sister, Mom and Dad nearby. She will ( Read more... )

I hit an odd threshold yesterday. Rule of 90. When years of service plus age equals 90, I can retire with my full retirement benefit. The reality is that I don't think I can take advantage of this for another year. But the empowerment to be able to say enough of this crap and walk away is......interesting. It would be financially difficult to do ( Read more... )

Just posted most of this on FB, but this is not an entirely coincident population, so ( Read more... )

Cecilia has had a couple of rough days. She won't have experienced them much as she has been sedated through most of it. She was intubated to assist her breathing. Allowing her to get some rest from the work of breathing on her own with the lung infection. She was also put on dialysis because her kidneys shut down. During all of this she spiked a ( Read more... )