Beautiful Wednesday in San Antonio

Sally's making good progress....

Last Thursday Sally, Peggy and our daughter Pamela had an outing. They went to Panera Bread which Sally found that she loves and had a good lunch. After lunch, they went to a nearby HEB Supermarket and picked up a few items. After that they came home and Sally had a nap, being worn out from all the good activity. When she awoke, she suddenly realized that her "stash" was missing! She had an unmarked envelope with $100 in cash for her Texas trip that she had slipped into her pants pocket before they left for lunch. After her nap, she checked and it was gone! She and Peggy called Panera Bread and HEB and inquired whether anyone had found the money and turned it in. When those inquiries proved futile, Peggy called me and asked that I come by those two locations and scour the ground for this envelope. I did that again with no results. After a couple of days, Sally said that she had decided that it was meant for someone else with a greater need to find that money. That gave her some peace.

Fast forward to this afternoon. Peggy and Sally went again to HEB for some grocery items. After they checked out, Sally said that they should check and see if anyone had found her money. They stood in line at Customer Service to ask about the lost money. The lady that they spoke to said she remembered Peggy calling last week and that she would check with the store manager. She went to his office and came out waving a $100 bill! It turns out that the store manager had personally found the money and placed it aside. Sally's day was made!

Today, we started the new cardiac rehab therapy at St. Luke's Baptist hospital. The physical therapists are quite knowledgeable and have great "bedside manner". Sally's pleased. She will go 3 days a week for an hour of one-on-one therapy.

Today she wore the new white compression hose for the first time. The compression hose have been a start and stop proposition since we started. The first ones that were prescribed were "firm" at 30-40 mm/Hg. The DME provider in Arab then gave us a second pair at 20-30 mm/Hg. Those we got on successfully twice but they were really gave Sally a good bit of pain going on. So yesterday, we got another pair at Walgreen's that are 18 mm/Hg. We think that we can work with these. Then, as her legs' circulation improves and the swelling perhaps goes down, we can graduate to the tighter compressions.

Sally's blood sugars are beginning to settle down in a consistent pattern of good numbers. Only once in the last two weeks have we had to adjust her insulin by adding 1 unit for higher blood glucose readings.

The weather is beautiful in San Antonio these days. Today's low is 55 and the high was in the mid 80s. What's not to like about that?

Sally's a little homesick for family and friends but she's working at enjoying herself. We're trying to work on her recovery and keep her well-fed and busy.