I was awake rather early but I stayed in bed until about six-thirty and then I was up and getting ready for a new day. I arrived at the hospital about eight-twenty and Jeri was eating her breakfast, which is almost like it is every day. The therapy people came to get her at nine but she said her legs were numb almost to her knee so they decided to wait until tomorrow. At eleven the transportation person come and got her for dialysis and the way she went; I didn't know where they went but after a while they showed up and Jeri said they had to pick up another person and take them to another facility. She tolerated her session fairly well; I can't figure out why they are trying to take so much liquid off her body when it has such an effect on her blood pressure and they have to quit taking the fluid so her blood pressure will go back to normal, but then nobody asks me for my opinion but I am always ready to give it to them whether they want it or not. Lee was there and visited with Jeri and me; she is a great help to us. After the dialysis was over Jeri was doing quite well and it seemed that she was bright eyed and bushy tailed, and she wanted to watch TV so she indicated that it was time for me to go home; It was five-thirty so I came home and do what I do best.

Well, I have had two people tell me that I didn't post last night and I was adamant that I did but it looks like I didn't so my apologies to those who I spoke to.
Jeri had a very busy morning this morning because she had to make up for three lost days of therapy; 'they' didn't come and get her on Saturday or Sunday and they thought that she was having chemo on Monday so they didn't come and get her yesterday so she had to make it up today, which took two hours and 10 minutes. I will bet they don't make that mistake again.
There was some conversation this morning with Jeri to see if she thinks she is about ready to go home. I think she may come home on November the 1st, which is great news for me. She thinks she can do everything she needs to do at home, and she will have some 'Home Health' for awhile and maybe some in home therapy.
Now for a weather update; when I got up this morning it was raining and in the low 40s and it rained off and on all day but the temps were in the 50s, which is fairly good for this time of the year.
It is my hope that Jeri is ready to come home in a couple of weeks, so keep those prayers going strong.

I was rather late getting out of bed this morning but I was on my way to SDCH shortly after eight, and I had written a check for the bishop and stuffed it into Mike's car door so he could give it to the bishop. When I got there I awoke Jeri, however, it appeared to me that she was getting ready to get up. When I asked her how her night was she said she had some pain; I'm going to ask the doctor what is causing the pain the next time we go for chemo but that will be next week. Starting tomorrow it is back on the three days a week on the dialysis machine from noon until three o'clock; I hope it is as good as it was last week. This coming Thursday she gets her pace maker checked. I think she will think that this week is surly not as hectic as it is when she has her chemo sessions. This afternoon Jeri asked me to have a piece of paper affixed to her door informing everyone that she doesn't want visitors after seven o'clock. It is interesting to me that people can't figure it out for themselves but everybody is not as astute as some of us are.:)
After Jeri had some Lortab this afternoon she was feeling much better and was resting better also and she was watching football; she surely likes sporting events. Lorene called me tonight and I answered the phone by saying 'Joe's Pool hall, Joe speaking," and she was very confused about who she was talking to; it took me a few minutes to convince her that it was I that she was talking to so I shall be careful in the future how I answer the phone. I told her that Jeri has her bad days and her good days but I think she is gradually getting better. With that said I ask for your continued payers in her behalf.

I kind of arose not so early today; it was about seven, which seems late to me. I got to the SDCH about eight-thirty and Jeri was eating breakfast, which didn't look to appetizing to me but she has to eat what the give her. She didn't sleep very well last night because of pain in her back and hips but later in the morning they gave her some Lortab, which helps a lot. She didn't have any therapy today; I guess she has met the time that is allotted for this week. Berdeanna (I know that most of you don't know her, and that is a good thing for you) left the house today after she had used all of the time that her insurance would pay for; she surly hated to leave. We went for a walk shortly after noon and we went outside for a moment and Jeri was complaining about how cold it was so I wheeled her back inside the house. After she had her lunch she had a Lortab and then she had a fairly good nap.
About four o'clock she started asking me if I didn't want to go home and rest; I was surprised at her worries of my comfort but then I discovered it was time for BYU to play San Diego so I set everything so she could watch the football game and then being very obedient I wended my way home:) and I was the only one there. So I did just what I wanted to.
I think Jeri would describe today as a somewhat good day but not as good as some have been.

I was out of bed just before seven and was busy getting myself ready for a day at the hospital. Just as I was getting ready to leave, Patrice came upstairs and we had a brief conversation about what I thought was an error on someones part and she suggested that I talk to the Director of Nursing, which I did. When I went to his area I saw a young guy that I have talked to before and I asked if he was the director and he answered in the negative but said he would talk to the director and tell him I would like to talk to him. Shortly thereafter I was walking to get Jeri a cup of ice water and met him, the director, in the hallway; he recognized me and we chatted for about 10 seconds and then he said he would go down to the room and talk to Jeri. When I got back to the room they were having a very calm and serious conversation about the errors' made on her blood draw and he said he would talk to people to discover what had gone wrong. After awhile he came back and he and Jeri, and I was chirping in every so often, was having a conversation about her blood draws and he mentioned that there was a draw just a day or two ago during the night and Jeri said that was impossible without her knowing about it; after we talked for a very short time I was convinced that he was going to get to the bottom of things. While this conversation was going on Jeri asked if it was possible to get one of those machines that just takes a finger-prick and would not need a blood draw because of the difficulty of the blood draw and he acted like he thought that would be a good idea but would have to talk to Dr. Shield before any decision could be made. We are very hopeful that things will be worked out and things will get back to normal. With the conversation we had I think Scott Anderson will get things like they aught to be.
Shortly after this happened there was a young guy, in his late 20s or early 30s, that was being transported some place; it appeared that SDCH didn't have the facilities to do for him what was needed, and wouldn't you know that this was going on just as Jeri was supposed to transported to dialysis. She was a few minutes late but the people at Liberty Dialysis are pretty laid back and takes things in stride. Jeri had a good session on the machine and no problems with her blood pressure, which is the thing that causes her most of the trouble. Over all it appeared that she had a fairly good day and I can see that the PT & OT are helping her with rebuilding her strength; I head someone say that for every day you stay in bed it takes a week to recuperate and Jeri was in her bed for several weeks.
I have to add a part to the conversation I had with my girl friend in India; it is ok if I have a girl friend in India. I mentioned that I was 77 years old and she told me she talked to a guy from the US of A the other day and he told her he was 80 years old, and then she said, "he told me new word while we were talking so I asked her what it was and she said it Coot and she asked if I knew what it meant and I said yes; it is a word that is added to Old to make it Old Coot, which means you are really old, and then I told her I would give her another new word and it is Geezer, she then asked what it meant and I said that when men get to by my age some very rude people refer to us as Old Geezers, which caused her to chuckle some and then she said we never use such a word to describe some old person; so I told her they were much more civilized than we.:)

Now I am talking about getting out of bed early. I awakened shorty before 4:00 am thinking about the printer and the software problem so I got up and went on a scavenger hunt for the software disk but I couldn't find it so I decided I would look for some help from some other source. I found a phone number that I thought might help me so I gave it a ring and I was talking to a very nice young lady in India, and of course I can't remember her name. I asked her to register my new printer and then I told her of my problem and she said; "I can help you if you will let me have control of your computer. After some conversation she convinced me it was a good idea so I gave her permission to take over my computer and in a lot of minutes she had downloaded all of the drivers that was needed and when I tried it out it worked really well. So now I can print from my computer and in a few days I will have a disk that has the software that I may need some time down the path. I said last night that they hadn't heard the last from me.
Jeri had a great PT session today; she walked the walk and she did it twice plus all of the other things they have her do, plus the OT was also completed and she was feeling good when it was over, however, she did lie down and rest for a few minutes while she waited for her lunch. Lee showed up about noon thirty and then we waited until shortly after one and started our trek to the cancer people for her chemo therapy; as we were leaving the SDCH 'they' gave Jeri the meds she was scheduled to take and the way we went. When we arrived at the Cancer Center I got a phone call asking me to tell Jeri not to take the blood thinner that was in the packet of pills because her INR was at 5.3, which didn't sit well with us. We had a conversation with some of the staff about no blood was being drawn so how did anyone know what her INR was. When we got back to the SDCH I had a chat with the nurses and anyone else around the area about the blood draws that were not being done, oh, by the way we were told either this morning or yesterday that 'they' were taking blood every night. We challenged that because we all know that getting blood out of Jeri is harder than getting blood our of a turnip and it couldn't be done without her knowing about it, however, they did do a draw this morning and of course Jeri was awake when it was done. It will be interesting what the excuses will be when we have our chat about it.
Now that has all be said she still had a rather good day, and some of the credit goes to the steroids they give her doing the chemo session. It appears that her numbers are looking ok.
Oh, it rained this morning and the temps are not so hot.

I was up rather early this morning but I just puttered around until about eight; I knew Jeri would be eating breakfast shortly after eight and I didn't want to take her mind off of the meal.:) We got caught up on the things of the day and then at nine the PT person came and got Jeri and she had a pretty good work out and then we returned to her room. We did some more puttering and at eleven the transportation people came and picked her up for dialysis so she rode down in the bus and I had to ride in the pickup; it just doesn't seem right to me.:) Shortly after twelve o'clock I moseyed up to a fast food place and I shall not do that again; every high school student in Bountiful was eating fast food so my food wasn't all that fast.:) I made an oath that I will never do that again. Jeri tolerated the dialysis rather well but when we got back to SDCH she was tired so shortly after four-thirty I came home and found my new printer from HP, so I started in putting it together and with a little help from Chris, he did the cable work under the computer stand, which was a really good thing for me. I inserted the ink cartridges into the printer and it worked. I then started looking for the software and it wasn't to be found and I searched high and low. After I had looked in every conceivable place I called HP and told a lady of my problem and she tried to help me but the best thing they would do was ship it so I would get it in five days, which didn't make me very happy; and they haven't heard the last of this episode. I told this nice lady what I wanted her to say to her supervisor and she said she would but I don't think she really will, however, I am not through with this episode; I thought they ought to 'overnight' it to me but she didn't think that was going to happen.
Now that I have that off my chest I will tell you that Jeri seemed to have an alright day, and tomorrow will be better because that is a chemo day and she always gets some steroids which 'picks her up'. I am starting to treat her better because I don't want her to get those big muscles from the steroids and put me in my place.:)