A very stressful day. We had to be at Dr. Moreno's office at 9AM. He checked the open callouses and the one on his right food is MUCH worse. We have new medicine, had to get a blood test and Xray. We also are not going to be putting on the support stockings because they seem to be contributing to the problem by putting bad pressure on that callous.

We are quite upset but have to just keep moving. We received the sequential compression sleeves yesterday which should help keep the swelling in the legs down.

We left Dr. Moreno's and hurried to Plymouth Aurora for his xrays and blood test and my physical therapy. We got done with everything at about 11:30 so decided to go to Chester's for lunch. Everybody raves about their food. We ordered cheeseburgers and fries and brought them home. The fries were OK but the burgers WERE great.

Then we both napped. We were exhausted.

When I got up I took care of registering the sequential compression sleeves, baked some corn muffins and caught up on my emails and that kind of thing.

When Dick got up we put the sleeves on his legs. We are supposed to do it three times a day for an hour each time. Today we just did it once. This will keep us busy - for sure.

This evening after dinner, I went over and fed and watered Boots, the cat, for Jim and Michelle. They volunteered to work for the opening of Summerfest and decided to stay in Milwaukee as they will be up late and Michelle has to work in the morning.

Got nice letter from Fr. Mike today. He was thanking us for the donation that I gave him on Tuesday. It was a nice summary of the current status of his Sarnelli House. Here is a paragraph from the letter.

"We blessed the new two-story' House of Hope' nursery before I came home. It is big, airy, with places to play and much more lawn space than we had before. It has a modern kitchen. It also has a wading pool. The kids play nude, and the first trip into the pool turned out to be a disaster, when a 2-year-old fat little oar named Kane took a huge dump in the pool, sending all the wee ones screaming shoving in their rush to get out. Mis Don Rak is demanding that he be banned from the pool for life!"

I love his letters. He must really love those little people a lot. I asked him if he was ever going to retire and he said. "What would I do." He will stay there I am sure until he is gone. You can check the website at www.sarnelliorphanage.org. Read his brother Jack Shea's letter. It is great.

Have a nice Friday.

Love

Mary