Day 12—Couldn't do it without friends

Brian, Heidi and Gregg

 We've been fortunate to have a lot of friends visit lately.  That can be both good and bad.  I was thinking of naming this post, Friends:  you can't live with 'em and you can't live without 'em.  But in this stream-of-consciousness style of writing, I can't go back and change something written previously.  Well, maybe I could.

Heidi had a fever the last two days.  Actually, only parts of the last two days.  It didn't last long each time.  But the medical staff took it very seriously, ordering a chest x-ray, blood samples (one from the port and one from the arm), urine sample and frequent temperature monitoring.  Fortunately all tests have come up negative.   



Lis, Heidi and Alex



Heidi thinks the fevers are from multiple long visits from guests.  The doctors think they are just routine fevers that occur from low white blood count.  They probably won't order any more chest x-rays if additional similar fevers occur.  Actually, I know the real cause.  I haven't told anybody else, so y'all are the first to learn about it.  Thursday morning I bought a latté in a paper cup for her.  The barista actually put her thumb on the lip of the cup right at the drinking hole.  There's a lot of space on the cup!  Why do they have to touch the place where our lips go?  People, there is an epidemic of drinking container lip touching servers out there.  It's gotta stop!  Join with me in stopping this scourge.


Now that we've firmly established that visitors are all good, Heidi and I want to thank all of you who have come to visit, including those pictured on this page, Lori (multiple), Stephanie (multiple), Joe, Pammers, Bridget, Bryce, Ida, Julia and everyone else I forgot.  Keep it coming.  It's a good reminder to Heidi that the outside world is beckoning, and it's good for me to have something other to do than just spewing my inane dribble in this blog.

Here's a video of getting ready to walk the hall