I am amazed at the resilience of kitties.   Roxie is so patient and loving through all of this and I know that she is lonely with the house empty so much of her day.  When I come home she is always glad to see me.   She cuddles me and purrs her little heart out and she comes in to bed gratefully with me.   She spends most of the night either sleeping on my legs or over on the other side of the bed.

I have been opening the deck sliding door for her in the mornings.   She likes to hang out there for a while.   The other day she and a squirrel were looking at each other.   Made me a bit nervous but they seemed to be content that neither was a threat to the other.

Servicemaster came today and cleaned the carpets.   Boy did they need it.   I told Jim and Katie to bring the super cleaners as I had been putting it off, first because of Dick's surgeries and then because of the house leaks.

How nice to have the carpets clean and Katie gave me a solution that took up the black spots that had started appearing here and there.

After they left, I fixed my lunch and did a few things then left for Rocky Knoll.   Dick has been weak and has been experiencing pain in his chest.   It has been diagnosed as pneumonia (again) and he is on antibiotics again.

I ate lunch with him, then went with him to therapy.   He is very weak and is not up to games or walks but I just sat with him and read when he napped.   Dr. Sharon came in today and ordered a couple of more tests and treatments that might help heal him more quickly and perhaps prevent a reoccurance.,

As the diagnosis involved a trip to Sheboygan Memorial last night.  The ambulance picked him up at 6 and he got back to Rocky Knoll after 9:30PM.  Thank God for Tim at Custom care and Transport.  The hospital called him when we were ready to go back and just said that she had a patient to be transported back to Rocky Knoll.   He asked the nurse if this was a Medicaid patient.    I heard that and told her to tell Tim that it was Ernest Kunert.     He said and I quote. " OH.  Ernie!  I'll be there as soon as I can."      

There are wonderful people in this world.  I was walking a bit to stretch my legs and ran into Fr. Van Beek.  He was trying to find the way out, so I helped him.  When he found out Dick was a patient, he came to therapy to meet him and wish him well.   I was pleased.   Fr. Van Beek will be retiring in June of next year.
He still look pretty bent over but I saw a light in his eyes so feel that he is recovering finally from his injuries of several months ago. 

I came home at 4PM.   Roxie was very glad to see me.   I put the living room furniture back in place and fixes a bit of supper.  

Since I was up so late last night, I will go to bed early tonight.  

I can read until I am ready to fall asleep.

Be happy

Mary