DAY 14 - EVENING

Last day here.  This picture is the treatment chart they gave us.  It's supposed to "explain" the treatment for each day.  It took us a few days to figure out exactly what all the colors meant.  Thought it was a good visual for you all - each one either stands for an IV or supplements or blood treatment.

I am anxious to get home - to our surroundings, our friends and family, our "stuff."  Valerie is a little anxious about going home.  Worried that people will have unrealistic ideas about her functioning; worried that she will have to endure pitying looks and questions; and worried that she won't improve.

I think that many of us fully expect her to recover... her strength, her health, her mobility, and her sense of a "normal" life.  Of course, it'll take work and time, but she has the ability to heal and be healthy.

So I ask of all of you:  patience, compassion, cheer without insincerity, and time.

And thank you for the responses that we have already gotten for items to furnish the other condo.  I think we have enough beds; table and chairs; and dishes.  Just needing a few other things on the Help Needed Post.

More tomorrow - maybe from here... but FOR SURE FROM HOME!!! :)

** One last picture of Dorian, our Patient Representative.  I'm sitting in his office on our last full day getting some help with Valerie's medication.  He's also going to call the border tomorrow and tell us the best time to cross when it's not too crowded.










**This little girl was in line in front of me at the grocery.  No amount of smiles could sway her.  Every time she looked at me, it was just like this. :)