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Pool therapy went well yesterday and later Rita and I returned to the hospital to visit Lisa who had gone to the ER earlier where they determined that she had a kidney stone and was either at or near sepsis, so they admitted her and removed the stone. She is feeling much better but will probably be there another couple of days. When I go to PT or the pool a volunteer aide gives me a ride to and from the physical therapy area which its quite a distance from the hospital entrance. The aim is to get me to the point where I can walk there and back on my own. Last night I walked in and all the way to and from Lisa's room which was perhaps a bit more half as far as the physical therapy facilities, so I feel that I am really making progress. It was 91 degrees when we went to the hospital and was already in the low 70's when we headed home about an hour and a half later and beginning to rain. Today's high temperature will be 56 with light rain and high winds. Glad to have nothing on our agenda that requires us to go out of the house. Tomorrow we have a high school graduation for grandaughter of friends, a Christening,(Rita's goddaughter's baby) and a 1st birthday party (granddaughter of one of Rita's sisters) on our schedule. I suspect that we will only be able to make token appearances but hope the weather cooperates and is clear though chilly. I saw those pictures of the church fire. The flames engulfing the steeple which then collapses into the church were ferocious. That church was practically destroyed once before (in the 1800s) and was rebuilt. What will happen this time has yet to be determined but the damaghae was pretty terrible. KC, I believe that the lack of snow and rain this past year was given as the reason in that newspaper account of the lack of flowering shrubs. It was certainly noticeable here. The promotional piece that the realtor printed when advertising this house two years ago featured the beautiful flowering crabs in our front yard and, this year, the flowers were few and far between.
Pool therapy went well yesterday and later Rita and I returned to the hospital to visit Lisa who had gone to the ER earlier where they determined that she had a kidney stone and was either at or near sepsis, so they admitted her and removed the stone. She is feeling much better but will probably be there another couple of days. When I go to PT or the pool a volunteer aide gives me a ride to and from the physical therapy area which its quite a distance from the hospital entrance. The aim is to get me to the point where I can walk there and back on my own. Last night I walked in and all the way to and from Lisa's room which was perhaps a bit more half as far as the physical therapy facilities, so I feel that I am really making progress. It was 91 degrees when we went to the hospital and was already in the low 70's when we headed home about an hour and a half later and beginning to rain. Today's high temperature will be 56 with light rain and high winds. Glad to have nothing on our agenda that requires us to go out of the house. Tomorrow we have a high school graduation for grandaughter of friends, a Christening,(Rita's goddaughter's baby) and a 1st birthday party (granddaughter of one of Rita's sisters) on our schedule. I suspect that we will only be able to make token appearances but hope the weather cooperates and is clear though chilly.
I saw those pictures of the church fire. The flames engulfing the steeple which then collapses into the church were ferocious. That church was practically destroyed once before (in the 1800s) and was rebuilt. What will happen this time has yet to be determined but the damaghae was pretty terrible.
KC, I believe that the lack of snow and rain this past year was given as the reason in that newspaper account of the lack of flowering shrubs. It was certainly noticeable here. The promotional piece that the realtor printed when advertising this house two years ago featured the beautiful flowering crabs in our front yard and, this year, the flowers were few and far between.