TERRY
Terry and I had an uneventful weekend. Terry has doctor appointments this week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Today it is late morning so the "in home caregiver" who will come today will just work a couple of hours as she is coming at 9. Tomorrow Dr. Cohen looks at the feeding tube and then decides when he can take it out. I would say Terry is eating OK. I would like to see her eat more but I feel she is eating enough to keep her strength up which she has to do.
It will be kind of a busy week as our schedule goes. It is always some effort to go out as there is the wheelchair, in and out of the car etc. Actually I believe that is good for Terry to do those things as she is not inclined to to a lot in her condition. I have high hopes that Dr. Cohen can find time to take the feeding tube out soon. It is considered a surgery as I am sure he has to sew up the hole that the tube has been through.
As for me I am trying to keep busy. I THINK I have tennis on Tuesday and Thursday but I need to call to make sure. This weekend I started going through a box of papers that I had just put mail in over the last many many weeks. It was time to sort, throw and file. I did not finish but got close.
I have felt tired over the last few weeks and I am sure it has affected my tennis game. I realize that is not really the important thing at this time but still it kind of is! I do not do that much work but I think the mental part of caring for Terry and the big time concern tends to wear me down somewhat. IF this "in home caregiver" who is coming today works out that would be a big help. It does not sound like much but when I cover the clothes, the dishes, Terry's care etc it does wear on a person. I am sure the house is NOT up to Terry's standards but it is what is it.
Terry asked that I get some mailings out to family yesterday so I did get that done.
When I do get out on the tennis court I feel the effect of opening the fridge door too often so starting today and through the week I will try (I will) to do better. I often weigh myself in the morning but will forgo that for this week and step on the scale next Monday to see IF I have made any progress. I have confidence BUT!
I have yet to read a book this summer/fall. Over the last several years I have managed to read 30+ books over the winter and here we have been in Naples 2+ months and really I have not even thought of going to the library. Maybe this month I need to get some books. I really enjoy reading about WWI and WWII. Terry called to my attention Saturday that there was a Ken Burns show on about WWII. We watched it and it was very good but then IF one has watched ANY of Ken Burns you know that it would be very good.
I will be watching and reading about Amy Barret on capital hill over these next few weeks. I will not comment on what is going on but it is fun to see that someone from People of Praise is up for the Supreme Court. By the way one of the founding fathers of Trinity Schools, Kerry Koller, passed away this last week. He was a wonderful man and his founding work with Trinity has given 100's of young women and men a great eduction. I did not have much interaction with him but I did have a conversation with him one leaders conference. We sat at the same table for lunch and in our conversation I mentioned that two of my sons graduated from Santa Clara U. Kerry was a professor at San Francisco U for some time and he was very familiar with Santa Clara.
I miss my brother Dave a lot. I often think of him and all the things he was so talented in. I often sit back and remember the long talks we had as we were in bed trying to go to sleep. It was always a concern of mine as he and Dad were kind of like oil and water at times and that was the reason he worked away from home after his sophomore and junior year of high school. BUT I think that Dad had great respect for him even though their relationship was rocky at times. Actually as an adult Dave went home to Mom and Dad a lot more than I and did several work projects for Dad. Anyway the games we played, the swims at the lake and the projects we did are all great memories and I suppose at the age of 73 it is not the worse thing in the world to spend time remembering and being thankful.
As I look outside it is close to tennis time for those who will play today and it is still fairly dark. I looked at my phone and the sun does not come up until 7:21. It is supposed to get to 90 today and we have not had 90s for some time. As I look at the weather of the many places family live Madison WI wins today with a low of 37! Other than Naples, Rapid City wins the high right now with 57.
I just poured my last cup of FP so will sign off, look again at e-mail and then try to finish some of the paper work that is left from the weekend.
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