Great news!

       I am glad to announce that Mary Ann is leaving the rehab facility and coming home tomorrow. She will be moved tomorrow morning. Mary Ann will continue rehab at the Life Care Center as an out patient. She will receive physical therapy for another couple weeks until she is fully recovered. We are all very excited for Mary Ann to come home, and I know she can't wait to be back. She will have to remember all of the techniques she has learned in therapy, and with much time and supervision, Mary Ann will be back to her old self. Hooray!

       Ned had an eye doctor appointment today.  The doctor said that the infection was gone and Ned's cornea was looking good; the swelling had gone down. Ned still has to put eye drops in every three hours during the day and every four hours at night. Let's hope he will continue recovering quickly.

       Ned sent an email to some people at St. James, and he would like me to post this message for those of you who did not receive the email today:

Dear EMs and lectors,

I am dictating this to my daughter Mary; it’s the only way I could possibly send a decent e-mail to you. 

I saw the e-mails about prayers and about possibly donating meals.  I don’t know that I could adequately express my gratefulness to you all for these kind thoughts, but Mary Ann and I appreciate it very very much.

Our situation here is that we have a daughter who lives five minutes away from us who has been very very helpful to us during these past few weeks.  In addition, our two daughters who live out of town are now here visiting and spending time with us, and our son who must go out for work lives with us and has been a very good helper as well.

At this point, we have been doing fine in the meals department thanks to the generosity of these fine children of ours.  We are hoping that Mary Ann can come home from the rehab center within a few days, and after this morning’s visit with the eye doctor who did my surgery, there’s a good chance that the patch now covering my right eye will be removed within a few days. 

All of this is to say that I do believe we’ll be able to take care of meals for the foreseeable future.  However, if this changes – and it might, you never know – I will let everybody know. 

In the meantime, thanks to our granddaughter Ally, the blog I set up initially for Mary Ann’s surgery is being kept up and now includes news about Ned, too.  So I encourage you to check this site at any time for the latest news. 

Here is the url for the blog:    http://www.maksurg.blogspot.com/. 

Once again, on behalf of Mary Ann and myself I want to express our sincere appreciation for all your kind wishes and thoughts, but most of all your prayers.  Prayer has the power to move mountains, and we can feel the positive actions that are coming as a result of them. 

May God send his abundant blessings upon all of you and may you receive spiritual rewards for yourselves and your loved ones as a result of the prayer you offer for us. 

God bless you all,

Ned