San Antonio in time for President's Day....

I'll catch you up on the last week for Sally...

Last Monday, Sally was tired from attending Anna's Baby Shower the day before, but she had a good morning at cardiac rehab. The folks at Therapy Plus in Arab are great and worked well with Sally. We called Dr. Holcomb's office about the vision difficulty. They advised us to go back to where we purchased the glasses. The optical shop agreed to re-make the glasses just in case that was the problem.

On Monday afternoon, Sally went to see Dr. Hargraves, but he was away for an emergency, so she saw his Nurse Practitioner, Pam. She was very up-to-date on Sally's progress and asked lots of good questions. She took care of Sally's prescription needs and recommended compression hose for her leg circulation difficulties that continued to cause swelling.

Tuesday, we had rehab again. They agreed to copy all of Sally's charts for these first 4 weeks of rehab for us to take to San Antonio for rehab continuation. I appreciate this level of patient care!

Wednesday and Thursday saw us wrap up rehab at Therapy Plus and prepare for our road trip.

Friday morning we left Arab and headed west. We covered about 450 miles on Friday, even though we stopped at least every two hours to stretch our legs, get gas, eat, etc. Weather was good. We encountered rain only a couple of times. We stopped for the night at Denham Springs, just east of Baton Rouge.

Saturday morning we had a traditional Southern breakfast (egg, grits & raisin toast for Sally, waffle for me) and miraculously located a Starbucks right across the street from our hotel! Sally suggested that I had likely chosen our hotel based on its proximity to a Starbucks. Hmm.

Another good day of driving Saturday. We reached Houston about 3 in the afternoon and arrived home in San Antonio about 7 PM. Sally traveled very comfortably and we listened to an audio book ("Under the Banner of Heaven" : a history of the Mormon Church in the U.S.) most of the entire trip.

Sunday and today, we have recuperated and begun settling into a new routine. Peggy has been preparing and measuring food calculated to please Sally and to conform to her diabetic diet. I have obtained fresh refills of her insulin here in San Antonio and her blood sugar is right on target!