A Hard Day at the "Office"

At the Hospital:
Trudie is really working hard. In fact, Friday she may have overdone it a bit. She worked on a machine that is like bicycle peddles and these are muscles that she apparently has not used in quite a long time. Today those muscles are hurting her pretty badly.

She had a review Friday and she has accomplished all of the goals that the team had set out for her for the week. Her hard work is paying off. She says she can tell that her muscle strength is returning more each day.

Her blood counts continue to drop. She had a transfusion on Thursday night to get them back up and then today they are down again. She is getting another transfusion tonight. She still has the underlying disease and it is messing with her blood counts.

The doctor said that when she is finish getting all the benefits of the acute rehab then he will schedule the splenectomy. The case manager said that the tentative goal was for her to be done with rehab the first week in October. So she has one or two more weeks at No. Fulton.

At the Home Front:
The small group came over today and gave the house a good cleaning. We also made plans to install a ramp off the back deck for our old-man dog. Yoska is a 12 year old Kuvasz and is quite elderly. Trudie has been lobbying for a ramp for him for quite some time and I've not done it. A couple of small group guys think we can do it in one day. I appreciate their attitude and skills and believe we can do this. And I appreciate all the things the group has done for us.

Tomorrow, Sunday, I plan on taking Sari, our five year-old female Kuvasz, over to the hospital and bringing Trudie out for a visit. I know it will lift both of their spirits.