well,yesterday we had some glorious oriental food and lots of laughs... He has gotten a brace for his right knee and already, like the Toolman, he is working on a plan to amp it up when he gets home. He walked with just his cane, and the brace around the parking lot to show me, though he tired quickly. They have been taking too much fluid off of him in dialysis leaving him constantly dehydrated and weak in the current heat, but he can't stand staying in his room inside that place. I have to laugh at a small revolt I started... A few weeks ago,when he was complaining about the food there, I took a rock bread slice from his tray and while we were outside, I fed the birdies... well.. it has caught on.. there are 3 or 4 residents now that take their bread and crumble it and take it outside to toss for the birds.. They all sit out there as the "patio group" and talk and laugh and watch the birds eating stale bread.. Scott has made some friends there he wouldn't have otherwise... They are a riotous group.. It is a non-smokers facility (naturally) so they have devised various hideouts outside where they go to smoke. They have told the staff basically... "what ya gonna do? send me HOME?"...lmao! Plus half the staff smokes outside around the back side of the building, so I told the caseworker who said something to me about enabling the renegades "Clean y'alls own catbox before you condemn these guys for theirs. Your staff is allowed to leave the property and yet they don't and they smoke on your back porch, and these people aren't. They don't smoke inside the building, or around people with oxygen so if they are in there for rehab or because they are dying, leave 'em be..."
We get left alone now.. bird activity, smoking, and me bringing in real food are "not seen".. LOL I wheel a train of wheel chairs across the parking lot to the movie theater parking lot, (me pushing a, a pushing b in front of them, b pushing c, etc and the motor chairs like my ducklings) plop my camp chair and we bullshit and carry on.. It is a bright spot in the drudgery, and makes the lonliness of being far from home a little easier on Scott I think..
He is getting stronger..slow and steady...thank you all for your continued prayers and love
love woobie
