R & R

Well, since leaving Yuma I have been to Chicago by plane, East Lansing by train and Howell by automobile. I think we should make a movie. I was admitted to the hospital on the Friday that I left work and was there until Tuesday morning. I was very excited because I felt better and was so bored at the hospital. All I wanted was to come home and get a move on Christmas. The Dr.'s, mom and Sarah kept saying, don't rush, feel better, take it slow. I did feel better and I felt that if I went any slower I would die.

So they sprung me, dad bought me a train ticket and I spent 5 hours at union station waiting for my train at which point I got lost outside without my coat because I had checked it into a locker. I was ok though because I was free from rehab (as I like to call it) where the hi-light of the day is getting your meal tray from the hallway and art therapy where you have to draw your headache. (mine is very mean and ugly).

Now I am home and have been for a few days. That is the good news. I am with my family, shopping, wrapping, puzzling, laughing, eating. Just enjoying each other's company. The bad news is that I rebounded about three days after my release from rehab. The docs don't want me back before Christmas because depression will set in big time and I will not allow myself to get better but next week after the big guy in red comes I may go back for a few days. Being this close to the best of the best and not getting all the way better doesn't make much sense.

Right now we are taking it one day at a time and slowly. Sarah likes to call it sun downing. In the afternoon when I get tired and cranky. I have good days and bad ones, the dr.s have been checking in daily but there is not much to be done right now. Sarah is sick again too, her cold is back. We don't think it ever really left. So our family is doing the R & R thing for the holidays this year. We have hurried for nothing so far and do not anticipate it anytime soon. We have most everything done and have already put two puzzles together.

There's the update. Happy holidays to everyone and may you all be as calm as the Knapp's this year!!!!

Brrr....

Well, I am in Chicago and it is cold. I knew it was going to be cold. But to be honest, I was afraid to leave the airport on Tuesday. I could feel it and I thought maybe this was a mistake and I should just get on a plane and go back. But I forged ahead got a taxi and arrived at my cousins. After the taxi driver tried to drop me off at the care center across the street. I got in the building ok and it took me about 20 minutes to get in the door because the door was a little stuck.

When John got home we went to a bar and ate good chicken and warmed up a bit then we hung out for a while and went to bed. Wednesday morning we packed everything into a taxi again and went to the Dr. 's who said she wanted to admit me to the hospital for a five day stay but the wing was full and there was a waiting list. So I got all my luggage back into a taxi and came back to John's. I have stayed inside and watched movies but this morning I ventured out. Bad idea.

It is frigid out there. I walked three blocks to a Mexican/American grocery store run by an Indian man and then got a sandwich at Jimmy John's which was very exciting! And delicious. Then I walked three blocks back to the apartment and decided not to leave again until I absolutely have to.

The office called this morning and said I can't get in until tomorrow to the hospital and I am not feeling any better so I will watch more movies and take a nap. They gave me a couple shots yesterday but they didn't really help. Not that you are all caught up I will let you know when I get home o Michigan.