Day 33 - Monday morning

Weekend over and day is started. Adele is in the shower, so this is a good time to blog. Saturday she received a bag of platelets again, at LGH. Once again she had to stop the nurse from sticking her to get a sample of blood, and request a nurse that could take the sample from the hickman port. That took a 1/2 hour longer to get someone there to do that, but it is worth the wait. We were able to get home by about 1:30 Sat afternoon.

Adele just lays down when getting the platelets, but the stress factor wears her out. She knows she needs them, just hates having to get them because she is tired of waiting for her body to be making its own platelets. She took a 2 hour nap after we got home from Lancaster. Last night she said she was tired of the "prison" she was in. Not being able to visit grandchildren since last early fall, being so careful about what we did, etc.

We did video chat with Eric and Julie (and Ruby of course). That is, after I found out why we were unable to get any sound in either direction with the video. Long story - short = my wireless internet router has firmware from 5/2005 and when updated to the 10/2007 version, everything worked. Didn't think the router was that old, still works anyway.

After the video chat we watched "Fireproof" - a movie anyone who is married should watch. Our church has 2 or more copies, so we borrowed one for the weekend. Somehow I wish I had seen it about 35 years ago and not had to learn in such a hard way what Love really is. No matter, I do cherish all the memories Adele and I and our children share together.

OK, time to work sometime, today is PA Breast Cancer Coalition right after dropping the video back to the church. It is about time I enjoy working with all the wonderful girls at that office again. They have been more than supportive - and I plan on keeping up my promoting of their services to anyone I meet in PA that has breast cancer.

Thanks go out to all, and prayers are always welcomed.

Left to right - Somsavath in bed, Thip his wife, and Khun Tuk from the hospital
Somsavath, in Laos, is getting better and that is good - thanks for all the prayers there, he still needs them along with some financial support for hospital bills.

Rick