Or, as David still quotes Kermit, time’s fun when you’re having flies.
No major progress, or issues since last month either thank goodness.
My schedule at work, and our time in the store covering for vacations and sick days have kept us more than busy, busy, busy. It’s tiring for David to be there all day, but he enjoys being involved as much as he can in the daily activity.
We’ve survived the rain and some vehicle issues too. The truck was sidelined with a brake issue and needed to be towed, so we were using David’s little car (no room for the wheelchair – or groceries) so we were limited to only going to the store (he has an extra wheelchair there) or places he could walk closely to. Then came the flat on David’s car (which luckily happened near enough to the airport last week as I was on the way there to meet David’s cousin Tim and Tim’s wife Janice who have been visiting us for the past week) which left us with no car at all!. His cousins had rented a car though and with some quick planning (and luckily some sunshine) we got both cars towed in and fixed so now we are back in business.
We’re planning for our trip to the Houseware show in Chicago next weekend, the show we were on our way to when David had his stroke last year. It will be a big event for David, seeing all our acquaintances and planning for the year to come. It will be more difficult this time since the planes from Monterey is a lot smaller, but each flight is only 2 hours so it should not be a problem.
We spent Sunday in the city (what a spectacular sunny day!) showing Tim and Janice the Golden Gate bridge, Chinatown, Lombard St, the Ferry Building and of course Irish Coffee at the Buena Vista Café.
As for David’s therapy program, he is starting again with a couple of hours a week of having someone come to the house to work through an exercise program on his leg and arm. Once he gets back in the therapy pool and on a schedule of therapeutic massage hopefully he will see more improvement.
We had dinner at the Monterey Cookhouse with Tim and Janice on our 17th anniversary Saturday. The champagne (French) was fantastic! Got it at some cute little store in Del Rey Oaks that sells wine and kitchen stuff….
Tonight he will be in the kitchen for the first time in a long time making his traditional fried chicken mashed potatoes for our guests, so I had better get in there and start helping him.
I will promise to update from Chicago on our experiences there!
Drew