Day 157, Year 8: Do-Nothing Day
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Weather: Winds SW 8; Mostly Sunny; High Temp in the Upper 70’s
Location: Lightkeepers Marina in Coquina Harbor, Little River, SC
At the end of the day, all I can ask myself is, “Where did this day go?” Mark and I spent the day at Patsy and Joe’s and I cooked, and cooked, and did laundry, and did laundry. Then the day was over. If we didn’t have to cook, life would be so much simpler. The great news today is that Patsy continues to gain strength. Her body seems to finally be getting somewhat back to normal and the issue she was having with her foot has resolved itself. Well, it resolved itself when she started taking Celebrex for her arthritis once again. She was taken off of it for the surgery and told not to take it during recovery, but the time has come when she really needs it. I don’t know what’s in that stuff, but on Sunday Patsy could not walk without a walker and today she is getting around just fine. Our next big job is to find a way to get enough calories in her each that she can maintain what appears to be her new body weight of 100 pounds. Prior to surgery she was struggling to keep her weight at 106 and now the struggle is to keep it at 100 pounds and try to gain some. Our time here is running short, so I’m looking for that magic solution. Patsy is diabetic and that complicates things tremendously in terms of coming up with foods to fatten her up that won’t raise her sugar level. Tomorrow we will continue the quest and Joe and I plan to do a little planting in flower beds. Mark is going to work on our auto pilot display to see if he can get it functioning properly. Right now we have to use the auto pilot remote as all of the buttons on the display do not work. It looks like we have very warm weather until Friday when there is 70 per cent chance of rain. So we’ll try our best to enjoy this beautiful weather.
