Sore throat

Ugh. I've had a sore throat all night. I think a cold is coming on. Nuts.

Long walk

Ken and I took our longest walk in quite awhile, down to Blueberry's for breakfast, through downtown Littleton to the South Platte River, along the river to Lee Gulch and home. Feels good. We chatted on the way back, with several neighbors who were out putting up their lights. Then Ken and I helped each other put up our lights. We celebrated our accomplishments with dinner at Romano's, then Mandy and I cuddled up on the couch and watched another sappy holiday movie (A Princess for Christmas) on Hallmark channel. A generally fine day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hoping everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. Ken and I brought Mandy over to Life Care after our morning walk. We planned to take K home for a few hours, stopping at Whole Foods to pickup a late lunch off the steam tables. Unfortunately, we were too late for that. We missed the Whole Foods connection by minutes. Instead, we stopped at Sprouts Farmers Market. They were out of turkey. But K wanted to have some shopping fun. So we left her there in a powered shopping cart, while we went over and waited in a long line to get our take out dinner at Boston Market. Delicious! Sorry to say, I don't think K had much fun after that. She slept through most of her visit at home, woke up long enough to eat a little of her dinner, then lost it all just before it was time to drive back to Life Care.

Lung infection

Quiet cool overcast morning. K has been nauseous and vomiting for the past week. They decided her problem is different from the gastrointestinal virus that's running around the Life Care facility. A recent chest X-ray led to a diagnosis of a lung infection. They've started her on antibiotics every other day for that.

I'm better too

Oh, and hey, about my right foot -- I'm definitely on the mend -- just in time for the snow forecast for this weekend! Now that the toe surgery is healing the way it should, I'm back to dealing with the slow recovery from the various sensations associated with the broken ankle healing. Mostly it's just that tight feeling you get when you have swelling, but then I look, and it's not really all that swollen. I remember the PA said it would likely be a year, before I will realize it doesn't bother me any more.

Kristan's Choice

I don't remember posting a K status update in awhile. Her neck is continuing to recover. I neglected to post that she's even out of the soft support collar now. She's been able to decide for herself about going home for the past several weeks, but holding onto her stay at the SNF because of the good therapies (occupational, physical, speech) she's getting. But she's thinking more seriously about making the arrangements to come home, maybe before Thanksgiving.

New phones. Ugh.

Oboy. I thought I knew what I was signing up for, but I was wrong. I worried (I do that a lot) that I might be wrong, but I couldn't bring myself to wait any longer. The second the Apple guy ran my credit card for our new phones, he casually mentioned that it had just deactivated both our old phones' cell connections. So now I'm frantically trying to get the new phones usable, and restored from recent backups, so I can run her new one over to her at Life Care Center of Aurora, late, late, late tonight. Dang. I was hoping for a much more leisurely approach to this. I was going to take the laptop and the unopened phone box over to Life Care, backup her old phone, then open the new box, activate the phone, and restore from the laptop to it. Best laid plans... thwarted again.

Update- I realized at 3am, that I wasn't going to get over there last night. I actually got two hours of sleep before getting up for work. So she'll be without cell service and all her other handy iPhone apps for today. Heavy sigh.