Family Visitors

My cold has matured and is sapping my strength but not my determination to post, at least, a truncated blog. Arthur arrived last night having left New Hampshire after his work day there. He was very helpful during the day with shopping but mostly with supportive and entertaining conversations with his mom and me. He made us a tasty breakfast of scrambled eggs and cheese. Bernice supplemented this with some yoghurt. It seems that her usually robust appetite has returned and this is a good omen in addition to being a healthy turn of events. A Visiting Nurse stopped by to change a dressing. Strangely, the incision wounds from her brain neurosurgery have healed marvelously but the original scalp wound in the back of her skull has not fully closed and requires a fresh dressing every two days. Bernice is sporting an increasingly thick fuzz of hair where her scalp was shaved. Today she began donning a wrapped and colorful scarf on her head so this fuzz may not be visible to visitors. She has joked about spiking the remaining hair on her right side and maybe coloring it green in the style of those daring teenagers.

A little later in the day Harvey and Sandy along with Murray, Sandy's father, arrived for a nice visit. Sandy helped me explore the refrigerator contents and remove items more than a month old. They also went shopping and set me up with some labeled foodstuffs to put in the freezer. This will enable a husband with no culinary skills to provide some meals for us. We later had dinner of pizza, salad, desserts, all on paper plates and Bernice participated enthusiastically.

Tomorrow morning at 9:30 Bill, the same PT person who helped Bernice with such skill and understanding when she suffered her pelvic fracture, will arrive to perform a PT evaluation.

Bernice is certainly looking and feeling better than she did a week ago and impressed and pleased her two older sons with the progress she has made. That is it for my unusually concise blog for tonight.

love, Merwin