Yes, it is Rachel's minivan. Liam's home. As I mentioned earlier - or did I? - she's home not because she's so much better, but because there's little they can do in the hospital that Rachel can't do at home. I'll try to expand on that in the next few days. Right now we just arrived and worked for the past several hours to settle in, There's TONS of stuff to do.
A few administrative notes:
* Visiting hours are 2-5, until further notice. Please stick to them. Try not to come outside of these hours to allow both Rachel and Liam time to do what they need to do and some rest.
* Food: We appreciate all the good hearts out there. Your help and care and love gives a real relief - and it warms the heart to know we are blessed with such a great community. Some coordination is needed with food delivery, otherwise we sometimes it beans beans and beans 3 times a week (that's a total of 9, for the math-challenged among you....
). Anyway, I'm working on a web-based mechanism, which hopefully will make such coordination simple and straight forward. Until it's put in place, I'll be the coordinator. Please email me with what you intend to bring and when. Please be aware that I may reply to your mail with "thanks, but somebody else already brought a similar dish...would you mind deliver something else?" or "thanks, but we're already covered for that day...would you mind deliver on such-and-such day?" (sounds a bit selfish and greedy, I know. Sorry.) My email is
dorfa1 at gmail dot com
Thanks for the understanding and help.
In between
A few days ago I started writing:
Liam is not in pain - on the most part. Yet, she's not back to being good own self. She's very quite. She watches TV and sleeps. She hardly talks. Maybe small oooowww or Eema (mom) or something like that. At times her eyes are just wondering in space or are locked onto a spot in the ceiling. It's hard to know what she feels. "Liam, do you want kids TV?", no reply. "Liam, are you comfortable?", nada. You get the point.
Her belly is still distended; she vomits or attempts to quite often.
But since then, things changed a bit:
She is in pain. Pain control meds help only sometimes.
Also from a few days ago:
Laundry Basket Voodoo A few administrative notes:
* Visiting hours are 2-5, until further notice. Please stick to them. Try not to come outside of these hours to allow both Rachel and Liam time to do what they need to do and some rest.
* Food: We appreciate all the good hearts out there. Your help and care and love gives a real relief - and it warms the heart to know we are blessed with such a great community. Some coordination is needed with food delivery, otherwise we sometimes it beans beans and beans 3 times a week (that's a total of 9, for the math-challenged among you....
dorfa1 at gmail dot com
Thanks for the understanding and help.
In between
A few days ago I started writing:
Liam is not in pain - on the most part. Yet, she's not back to being good own self. She's very quite. She watches TV and sleeps. She hardly talks. Maybe small oooowww or Eema (mom) or something like that. At times her eyes are just wondering in space or are locked onto a spot in the ceiling. It's hard to know what she feels. "Liam, do you want kids TV?", no reply. "Liam, are you comfortable?", nada. You get the point.
Her belly is still distended; she vomits or attempts to quite often.
But since then, things changed a bit:
She is in pain. Pain control meds help only sometimes.
Also from a few days ago:
After I fold most of the cloths, towards the end of the basket, there some what I call "unidentified items". Having to keep eyes focused on the TV during the folding, naturally I can't pay any attention to these items - unmatched socks, not-my-undy's, not-my-bras, and other such stuff. I...I....I...I don't know what to do with those. So I leave them at the bottom of the basket and I hope they'd disappear on their own. Then I pile new clean laundry on top of them and I see them again after I fold that load. And again. And again. But I don't lose hope. Slowly slowly they will disappear. I totally believe that.
Of course, I didn't think of this trick myself. I'm not THAT smart. I stole it. If the Moses was able to depart the Red Sea and the Messiah will come and Jesus was resurrected, what are a few socks for the all mighty? So all I have to do is believe that they disappear and they will go away, right? RIGHT?
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