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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Chloe and Dana had a good morning. It always follows a decent night’s sleep. Go figure. The news came in early that everyone was doing fine and I should go to the gym. Not a bad suggestion as I’ve put on 20 pounds since beginning our hospital vigil. Later in the day Dana and I took the stairs up five floors to start our getting back what we’ve lost. We were both out of breath.

It’s funny when people come in the room lately. They look in and see the empty bed and start to leave. Or they ask, she’s not back from therapy yet? You see, there’s a recliner on the far side of the bed and Chloe is so small they can’t see her sitting there. She just sits there with her computer, looking up receipts, playing games or using text to speech. We need to find an external speaker for her computer though as the volume isn’t enough to hear what she is saying without leaning in close. If I’m not mistaking I have a computer speaker here someplace.

The wheelchair company came by, and on their second attempt, fixed Chloe’s chair so she can wheel it about much easier. The wheels were rubbing on the armrests so getting around was getting crazy.

Bingo saw Chloe winning three more games. Dana had to start game one for her until she got back from therapy. After she won game two Dana decided Chloe should walk the length of the hall to get her prize so the two of them waddled off. That left me to play game three for her. When she won that one it confused the game prize giver as to how she could have won and not even had been in the room. It’s all good according to the rules but it was fun none the less.

When I left to come home and teach, Dana was getting Chloe ready to wheel about the halls. I showed her a couple new places to visit so they were going exploring. I also found out that there have been kids who have been allowed up on the rooftop heliport. I’m going to find out whom to contact, as we all want to take that trip. Of course, I’d also like to take a jump on the helicopter. That would probably be a bit more paperwork…

We love it when there are good things to report. Days like today help relieve the stress of being at the hospital almost 1/3 of a year!

Be well,
Ron