It's summer in Boston

Hi all -
Boston people are interesting. They spend most of the year bundled in wool and wrapped in scarves. Then the sun comes out, the weather warms to 75 and out of nowhere, beautiful girls in strappy sundresses appear everywhere! It was such a beautiful day that we asked if Rick could go outside. We found a wheelchair (they are everywhere) and rolled him out the front door and down the sidewalk to a parking lot that had a beautiful garden of tulips and flowering cherry trees. This is a huge medical complex and they did not create any meditative garden areas for the patients...but we did out best. The trip was very tiring, but still when Rick got back to the 11th floor, he managed to take several walks and a very long and satisfying shower today. By 8:00 tonight, he was so tired he was down for the night!

The cappucino drip continues to give him the nourishment he needs. When they pulled back the residual in his stomach last night they got 400 cc's of red fluid (not good) and four hours later they got 500 cc's of red fluid (worse) - but then this a.m. they pulled 150 cc's that was all cappucino. The drip has continued throughout the day. His system is still sluggish and he is not able to process the drip quickly enough if they up the rate on the drip - but at 40 cc's an hour, he does fine.

Tomorrow is a new day. He is positive and focused again and feels his system is finally waking up. When he heard one of the other people who have had the same surgery (except right lung) had walked 10 laps around the tower (24 laps is a mile) he got right out of his chair and polished off 4 laps. He is still very weak but making outstanding efforts to be well again.
Sue