June 26, 2020 the last Friday of this month

TERRY

I had a long conversation with Terry's rehab Dr yesterday as he called me.  His first statement was "we seem to be taking 2 steps forward and 3 steps back".  I would say that was not good news.  He then went on to say that they have not been able to get her to eat and she is also refusing to even think about a feeding tube again.  Wednesday she was so tired that she just refused to do any rehab work.  The Dr said that some of her attitude may be due to the fact that she has been confined for so so long but in the end there is and needs to be a lot of work done.  The tests they have done on her mental health shows that she is capable of making decisions for herself SO IF she says NO to something their hands are tied.  The team is meeting this morning to discuss where to go from here.  My prayers are going out that Terry may be open to what the team thinks is best.  
On the positive side they are now allowing ONE visitor a day and limiting it to 30 minutes.  It also must take place outside her room.  I called yesterday and they said I could come visit at 4:30.  I think that time was chosen because her therapy will be finished by then.  A couple of days ago I mentioned to her that I picked raspberries and she said oh that sounds so good.  Well she will get them this afternoon.  I called her twice yesterday to let her know but, for the first time in days, the calls went to voice mail.  That is the latest as of now.

When I was on my bike yesterday I found this to be the new NORM.  People just throw their masks anyplace at any time.  Nice, right?

I found new life in this article.  Jim Kiick of the Miami Dolphins of the 70s recently died.  Now that does not give anyone new life BUT in the article it said he died at a relative young age, he was 73--my age.  So now I can hang on to the FACT that I am relatively young.  The sad part of this story is he had been in an assisted living place for several years as he suffered from football related brain damage.

A very interesting story in the New York Times.  This statue of Roosevelt has been at the museum since 1940 but it is being removed.  The article says it is not being removed because of Roosevelt but because it depicts him on a horse and the Native American and African man are standing on the ground.  I guess the new thing is American presidents are no higher than us, the common person.  I have decided I will not aspire to become president now.  Looking at the age of the current candidates I am NOT too old.

I have a problem and I have no idea how to solve it.  Travis and I are having a contest to see who can lose the most weight based on a % of weight loss.  I think that is all fair and good BUT it is a fact that it is harder for OLD people to lose weight so I am thinking there should be some kind of handicapping factor for me.   BUT I can not find any way to get that info.  I may just have to forget it and be humble in losing.  I never did like to lose but then again there are a lot of worse things in life.

I scraped the window sills and caulked the windows in the kitchen yesterday.  So this morning it is primings the areas that need to be primed and then maybe getting paint on them tomorrow.  I ended up burning the paint off the sills as they just did not come clean with sanding.  Some of my old painting days came back to mind.

We got enough rain to wet the sidewalk and that was it.  I may just have to water the front yard tomorrow as starting tomorrow the HIGHS for the next 9 days range from 88-91, ouch!

The FP is down to half a cup.  Yes, I did the relay system again where I start with a POD of coffee and then hand it off to the FP when that is finished.  I could not believe the clock this morning.  I looked at the time at 6:15 and said I would like to sleep more.  I turned over and the next time I glanced at the time it was 7:45, way to go Carmen.