I'm Baaack!

I got hit hard on Tuesday with a gnarly stomach virus. I had to leave early Tuesday...I was at home throwing up with a fever all that day and night. Yesterday I was still out, mostly sleeping and eating rice. And today - I'm back!!! And I am so grateful to be done with that - yay!

Today I came in to witness a momentous event - Magda and Peggy applying the first watercolor mosaic pieces to Father Damien! It looks so beautiful...the painted pieces of watercolor paper just bring it to life. Magda will be going in and out of Peggy's room with the mosaic as she works on it so that Peggy can be a part of the process, guiding her. She has set up a studio in the middle room to work on the piece when she is not in Peggy's room.

I didn't get a chance this past Tuesday to update on the doc visit we had. We had to cut it short because we had technical probs, but we did get some stuff covered. He asked us to be sure to keep soaking her toes. He said that we can bend her knees, prop them with pillows, and soak her feet that way. I noticed today that the left toe is a little bloody, but it looks less red which is good.

Peggy has been dealing with a bit of a rash that looks almost like a sunburn or heat rash on her arms and on her upper stomach. Dr. Davis suggested that we keep putting Lotrimin and we'll be checking on it again on Monday to see if it has improved.

By the way - Peggy was "Lolo" for her doc visit - that's her in a Lolo mask above!

Peggy's been out of Tobradex, but the order is hopefully in (although Ty is currently out of town). We were also running out of abuterol and some other stuff, but Elroy is picking it up today.

JP's visit was very nice. He got to spend a lot of time visiting with Peggy. We had a nice Sunday dinner at the house.

That's about it for now...did I mention that Eric is going snowboarding next week with a bunch of his guy pals? He leaves on Monday and will be gone for a week. And Karen is leaving on Sunday to go to Vegas!!! After Vegas, she'll be going to Reno for a wedding. She'll be gone for over a week and half - what will we do without our Karen around??!!! No, we'll be fine, and we're really happy that she is going to be taking some well deserved vacation time for herself! You go, girl! And win da big one for us!