Sunny Monday!!!

What a beautiful day it was!!! I think spring is in the air!!!! How nice it was to wear my flip flops!!!!

Norm had a doctors appointment today and it went very well. This appointment was with his "primary care" doctor which is the one that has taken care of him for years. After waiting for an hour and a half, we finally got in to see the doctor. I am not sure exactly what he meant by his first words to us, but he said, "well, you are alive!!!". Well, thank you very much!!!!

He seemed really pleased with the results of the blood work, and said that a number of things had improved a lot. It seems Norm is having a problem with water retention and that could all be due to being anemic so he recommended Norm take iron. He went over all of Norms meds and the changes that were made in the hospital. Everything seems in order and the doctor didn't seem alarmed by anything. He wants to see Norm back in 6 weeks. What a relief that was. So, as far as his primary care doctor is concerned, all is well, pretty much.

When we came home from the doctors office, our son had been over with his children and put our deck furniture out, so we could use the deck. That is one of our favorite places to hang out!!! Also, our son in law had roto-tilled our garden, so, now the work begins. What a great family we have!!!

Our neighbor was over to work on our sprinkler system and get it going after the winter. He has been working on it for two days now!!! We are so lucky to have such good friends and neighbors and friends, although it was pretty hard for Norm to sit and watch them do stuff he used to do. But, he will again. Like I said before, he has no clue as to how bad he was, and that he almost left us four different times, so, he just can't understand why he can't get up and go out to the shop, or fix the sprinklers, etc.

We made a promise to each other just yesterday. We have had so many wonderful things done for us, and so much help, if we need anything....we promised each other that when he got better, and we could do things for ourselves, that we would be there for others, and try to repay all of the kindness shown to us.

We are on the way!!!!!

When a group of professional people asked a group of 4-8 year olds, "What does love mean?" One child replied,"Love is what is in the room with you at Christmas time, if you stop opening presents and listen."