Day #2

Day 2 was another good day.  Barbara came to visit and brought another one of the decorative Get Well cards that Ally made for her.  The larger one came yesterday, and is quite well done.  The smaller one in the shape of a flower blossom is today's.  Each petal has a get well message artfully written on it.  I can hardly wait to see tomorrow's card, which we think Ally will deliver herself!!

Then Lynda came from work to visit.  She brought a sweet surprise, a coconut-chocolate gelati from the Jeremiah's in Winter Park!  Yum, yum!  Mary Ann could only eat a little bit of it, and it was melting fast, so I pitched in and helped her out!

Later in the afternoon, Angela, one of the physical therapists and her helper, whose name I did not get, came in for Mary Ann's second walk of the day.  We'd been told she did really great in the morning, having walked out of her room and about ten feet down the hallway before feeling a touch of dizziness.  This afternoon, she beat that record, going past her morning limit by maybe another six feet or so.  The dizziness is expected; we were told that all patients experience it but after different distances.  Here's Mary Ann in the hallway this afternoon.  The helper is pushing the chair from Mary Ann's room--keeping it close behind in case she would fall.  Amazing.

Finally, Danielle, her sweet nurse for both days, came in to say goodbye.  She'd be off for the next several days and wouldn't return before Mary Ann is discharged on Thursday, so she wanted to tell us she enjoyed meeting us and our family, and she wished us well!!  She agreed to pose for a photo, and here it is.  We will miss her, she took very good care of Mary Ann.

I want to add that Tom also visited again today.  He and Barbara brought some flowers that brightened up the room.  Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo of Tom or the flowers. 

Later, Renee Jones from the Cathedral stopped in for a visit, and Peggy Smith, also from St. James, called to ask how Mary Ann was doing. 

We are very fortunate to have such good children and grandchildren, and good friends, too.


[I changed the time display to the Eastern Time Zone]