Dear So and So

[solobiker]

Mimi, I am happy to hear you were able to get out and ride. It brought a smile to my face with how you described it. I hope it will not be too long for Don to make that trip home with you where he belongs. Continue to keep you and him in my thoughts.

[Catrin]

Mimi - I am so glad to hear Don is improving, yayyyy!

I returned home today to Indiana, but Mom is still in the hospital, her chest tubes are still in. Her progress is slower than expected, but she has improved. I am afraid that combined with the emphysema, they removed just enough of her lung to have a permanent impact on her pulmonary function - and it wasn't great before. Time will tell, and they didn't have much choice. We just hope they got everything.

[Catrin]

Dear Right Thumb,

You have been infected for 3 weeks and I've taken good care of you. I appreciate that you aren't causing me much pain, I really do. However, when the Keflex didn't cure you, I figured the Sulfa they prescribed would work better than it has, AND I've even been soaking you regularly to draw stuff out of you. I even kept you all bandaged and protected when living at the hospital this week, given the dangerous nature of those places.

I would prefer to spend my last day off before returning to the office on the mountain bike, not spending my gas money for a visit to the doctor.

Please be much better in the morning so I can go play in the dirt with my mountain goat.

Thank you

Catrin

[Biciclista]

Good grief, Catrin, get thee to a doctor. 3 weeks is a LONG time. yikes..

Tonight Donald walked me to the outside of the hospital to breathe the sweet air. but he had to go back in and we still don't know for how long. he keeps doing his laps. That is the best thing.. walked a mile yesterday and more than a mile today. I sure hope those surgeons can figure this thing out.

[Catrin]

Good grief, Catrin, get thee to a doctor. 3 weeks is a LONG time. yikes..

Tonight Donald walked me to the outside of the hospital to breathe the sweet air. but he had to go back in and we still don't know for how long. he keeps doing his laps. That is the best thing.. walked a mile yesterday and more than a mile today. I sure hope those surgeons can figure this thing out.

(((Donald and Mimi)))

I've been seeing the nurse practicioner at my work clinic, but do have an appt. with my dr. this afternoon since I am still off work. It isn't a MRSA infection (my RN sister who has seen it says it would be far worse and much more painful) but it is just being stubborn. Like me.

[Pax]

(((Donald and Mimi)))

I've been seeing the nurse practicioner at my work clinic, but do have an appt. with my dr. this afternoon since I am still off work. It isn't a MRSA infection (my RN sister who has seen it says it would be far worse and much more painful) but it is just being stubborn. Like me.

I'm glad to hear it's not MRSA, I've had three of those, they are INSANELY painful and take forever to go away. I've also got significant scarring. *shudder*

[Catrin]

I'm glad to hear it's not MRSA, I've had three of those, they are INSANELY painful and take forever to go away. I've also got significant scarring. *shudder*

That is what I've heard, so was glad to hear my sister pronounce it something else. She is an RN in a pediatrician's office and sees pretty much everything. I am seeing my doc this afternoon, who knows, perhaps I just got a splinter in there somewhere and that is why the antibiotics really aren't doing much.

No dirt today though, rainy outside and my apartment was trashed - so clean all day today...

Dear Rain:

Please stop tonight so I can get in a GOOD ride tomorrow. Thank you.