Thursday 9/3

We are glad to get out of WRMC today and into HealthSouth Rehab. Our experience with this "facility" was even worse this time around. The only chart that everybody reads is the one with $$$$$ signs on it. My advice for anyone who has to go there is make sure you have someone with you 24/7 for your own safety. Shame on the administrators and the pressure they put on those who have to follow their money grubbing policies.

Tirade over. Mom had a good transfer and has already walked a couple of times. She said that the pain is less each time and it is getting easier for her. I had a long talk with the admitting doctor to emphasize some points up front so that hopefully Mom won't have to go through what Dad did. I think she will do well and won't have to be there longer than two weeks at the most.

I have been staying with Dad this week and have not had access to the internet so Nancy let me escape for a few minutes to check email and update you.

We are looking into several options for the future for Mom and Dad and have some good leads. Please pray for us as we try to keep the highest quality of life and that they will be able to adapt. We hope to get them (Dad) into a senior wheelchair accessible apartment this weekend. We have a 24/7 aide coming to stay with Dad next week and if things work out maybe indefinitely. Pray for her as well as Mom and Dad.

It seems that I am paying for the sins of all my siblings (just kidding girls not kidding Jamie). I had taken Dad to the doc this afternoon and was taking him to see Mom in her new digs and was about to pull into a parking space when a pick-up with a big trailer hitch back into us on the rear passenger side and jammed the sliding door so that I couldn't open it to get Dad's wheelchair out. I managed to take a piece off the door stop and can at least get the door open and shut. Normally I would have come unglued but with everything else going on it just seemed humorous and trivial.

I better get back to the country and relieve Nancy, who by the way brought us shrimp and steak with all the fixins tonight for dinner. Thanks Nan.

Thanks for all the expressed and unexpressed prayer and concern once again. We cherish all of you!

God is good.