A Great Weekend

Well, Dad is now another year older! Congratulations!! A very nice birthday gift of $500 was deposited into the benevolence fund. Again, thank you to the very nice giver for being so generous. You have totally blown the socks off of dad. He just can't believe that someone would care enough about him to give such a large sum. Thank you for the blessing and may God bless you ten-fold for it.

You have heard the saying "All work and no play makes for a dull boy"? Well, dad decided suddenly that "All sickness and no work makes for a dull boy" so he decided to accomplish everything he hasn't been able to do the last several weeks into 2 days. He was given a liquid steroid in his chemo and he has been like the energizer bunny. He has pushed himself a little too much but is getting better at realizing when he needs to stop and rest and put his oxygen back on.

Mom has been sick for several days so she went to the Dr. Friday morning and turns out that she has ear infections in both ears. She can hardly hear but hopefully the medicine will kick in soon. Dad had a difficult night Friday. Couldn't sleep and in a lot of pain. He ate so he could take some pain medicine. Eventual he lost all that he ate, all over his keyboard.

When we got there Saturday about 10:30am he had already been cleaning house so we told him he needed to rest so he was able to enjoy his visitors. Thank you everyone who stopped by or called or left messages on the blog for Dad's birthday. After several visitors, we went to dinner at Claim Jumpers. Good food, slow service. We had reservations for 7:30 and finally got our food about 8:45. We didn't get out of there until close to 10:00 which is way past Mom and Dad's bedtime. On the way home Dad did say he had a wonderful birthday and that he was very blessed.

This morning, we got over to the house about 11:00 and dad was out in the parking lot in his pj's. He had moved his work van to a parking spot further away so someone else could park closer. It was the first time he had driven since his accident about 5 or 6 weeks ago. He also moved the very heavy scooter out of mom's van and into the garage to get it charged for mom to use. He had moved another large and heavy motorized chair from their back deck into the garage. He had cleaned off their back deck and was moving seats around in their van. Like I said, he went from Lazarus to the energizer bunny in just a few days. It is hard to believe that a week ago he was at the hospital and the Dr was offering him a free stay at his assisted living facility. We left about 2:30 and I believe he had plans to go to Fry's, his favorite electronic store just to do something he enjoys. The fact that he is well enough to even go is an amazing turn around from 2 weeks ago.

He has big plans for catching up on paperwork this week. We will have to see what adventures he has planned after that. It could be an interesting week.

Thanks again for sharing in his life.