And we wait

Hi all -
Rick continues to receive nutrition via the cappucino colored liquid that drips slowly through a tube and into his stomach. He is receiving 40 cc's an hour or about a liter a day and that is adequate nutrition - but based on the residual when they do the pull backs, the amount he is absorbing has not gotten great enough to switch to eating regular food yet. They are watching the numbers - and the issue of blood in the pull back has recurred. I am sure any medical people reading this will catch that I am not saying this exactly right, but as I understand it, they don't think it's new bleeding but rather older blood because it is maroon from the acid in the stomach. They continue to say that they are sure the stomach will resolve on it's own, given time. So, we wait.

Dawn McNally Cobb came from Maine to visit us for a bit today. It was so wonderful to see her and to have a chance to catch up on family news. She has always been such a bright ray of sunshine and it was good to see her. It still hurts Rick to talk, so he was mostly a listener, but as we chatted on, he couldn't resist joining the conversation and that was good for him.

Have a wonderful Sunday. It's supposed to be a record setting 90 degrees in Boston today. Drink a glass of water for us. There was a break in a huge water main here in Boston yesterday afternoon and we are not allowed to drink the water without boiling it. The stores ran out of bottled water in a nanosecond - but we managed to buy 5 bottles of water. The hospital has its own water supply and so we can drink the water there - but other places like the Starbucks were selling the Sunday newspaper but no coffee. They say we may have drinkable water again by Tuesday night. Crazy!