Week 14

Welcome back and happy Tuesday!  I hope everyone had a great Easter.  We lucked out and actually had beautiful sunny weather with temps near 80--finally!!  It's amazing what kind of mood booster that can be.  Last week was super busy but all good.

 Here are those pictures:

Day 93- Monday, 4/3/23

I was scrambling to get a lot of stuff done at work this morning since I'll be out the next 2 days and on top of the usual stuff I started a professional development program for One Health core competencies which went live today.  At least it's asynchronous and I have until June to get all the course work done at my own pace.  Later, at PT, John is working on games and exercises that help him with his balance which still is really not quite there.

 

Day 94- Tuesday, 4/4/23

We're in San Francisco for the next 2 days for more doctor appointments and thankfully it's a wonderful day out and we have an amazing view from our hotel looking right at the bay and Coit Tower.  I also drove all the way in as a practice run for when I'll need to do it for the transplant.  The freeway stuff I can handle no problem but the city streets here are insane! They had me on edge the whole way to the hospital but I did it and feel more confident about future drives there. To relax and have some fun after we went out to dinner with all these wonder friends that live here and have been our rocks through this whole process helping in so many different ways to support us. Ending the day with one last city view back at our hotel where it's lit up at night.

 

Day 95- Wednesday, 4/5/23

Rise and shine for another nice weather day.  Too bad we spent most of it at the hospital for a rt heart catheter procedure to test pressures.  At least all looks good.  The only unsettling thing was that an EKG that showed a recent spot of damage to the heart's septum.  Supposedly not it's not too concerning but something to keep an eye on.  Tyler sent us an early morning picture of him playing laser tag with Rusty before feeding him for us and then when we got home this afternoon he was not letting us out of his sight and happy to settle down by me for a good, long nap.

Day 96- Thursday, 4/6/23

It's California Poppy Day!  Luckily we have them all over campus.  These beauties line the walkway from the parking lot to my work building.  They are such a cheerful looking flower adding a great pop of color to all kinds of landscapes in this state.  I planted some seeds in my yard and am hoping I'll eventually have them at home too.  Later for dinner it was spaghetti night paired with a drink inspired by the poppy color.

 

 

Day 97- Friday, 4/7/23

Happy birthday to John! We hit up PT 1st and then dinner out to celebrate.  He didn't get to celebrate his birthday last year and at that time we weren't sure there would be another birthday.  Thank goodness he's a fighter and overcame some really tough setbacks to still be here with us today. We are hopeful and ready to celebrate many more birthdays to come.

 

 

Day 98- Saturday, 4/8/23

Today we are our having Easter ham dinner and John's birthday cake so we can celebrate with Tyler and Lupe.  They'll be at her family's place tomorrow and couldn't join us for dinner last night so today it is!  I found them this cute chocolate bunny basket that reminds me of their young love, and John was happy to have them around to watch him open gifts and share a yummy Cold Stone ice-cream cake.  Sadly, we're missing the college boys, but they sent birthday gifts and I sent them Easter care packages so at least we were on each other's minds.

 

  

Day 99-Sunday, 4/9/23

 Happy Easter!!  There may just be the two of us but I still made our traditional Easter brunch--Yum! And those flowers I bought over week ago really came into perfect bloom for today.  Since they are bulbs I'm hoping to get them planted in the backyard so they bloom for many more Easters to come.  This was the first week in months where we had over 5 days of warm spring weather without rain and it felt so good.

That will do it.  See you back next week.