Sunday, February 24

With a humidifier, Mucinex, nose drops, John sleeping with his head up, and the grace of God, we had a much better sleep last night.  This morning, we've done the IV infusion with just a bit of a challenge, have had breakfast, and pills are going down. 

Robert Wagley, John's boss, stopped and visited with us at the hospital on Friday.  He took this picture of the three of us, just before Natasha left to go back to Dayton, OH.  It's the last picture of us at Barnes Jewish!

Appreciate our sunny home....it's bright and cheerful.  We've had lunch (baked potatoes and corn and delicious cottage cheese loaf from Lynn, spinach salad, and Cherry Garcia ice cream by Ben and Jerrys.....um, so good) and John is walking around for some exercise.  He needs to do some stairs, too.

I did take a small walk this morning just to the end of our street and back.  I also went to Aldi for some fresh food.  Funny thing is, I had just bought a bunch of groceries before this happened so I had Benita help herself.  Thankfully there was still some fruit left, so we could get by until today.

Rest of the day was slow and restful; John made some phone calls.  Each one exhausted him but he was glad to connect with a few people.  He even did his first facebook post.  I told him about some of the beautiful prayers and words that people shared with me, told him some of the events of those ICU days that he does not remember...

We talked to Gary and Cyndee Watts, great old friends who have been standing with us through all this.  Gary is an OB GYN doctor and has an ICU doctor friend who knew what was going on with John and gave him 1% chance of surviving...Thank God, HE is the Great Physician!

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It's Monday morning and I'm up, raring to go....hoping to get John's infusion done so I can go to work for a couple hours, come home and be here for him for a while, then return after lunch for another two hours.  That's the plan and we will see how it works.