Saturday Update

We are certainly thankful for our friends and their help. Marge has delivered two complete meals, ribs on Thursday and Lasagna today. Ingrid came over yesterday (Friday) and made a great soup as well as fixed up a supply of mashed potatoes. Mary mentioned that she seemed to be able to eat and hold mashed potatoes because they agree with her taste buds so Ingrid made sure we had enough. Of course, Marge had also prepared mashed potatoes with the ribs so we are well stocked for a few days.

Lilian and Bill have invited us over for a BBQ on Sunday afternoon with more of Lilian's offspring . We are looking forward to it but we have to see how Mary is feeling to see if she can make it.

Mary is still fighting the withdrawal symptoms resulting from the pain killer. We have stepped her down to 33% (one-third) of the daily prescribed dose she was taking a week ago. She showed some signs of withdrawal yesterday and today so we held constant at the 33% level today and will start down again tomorrow. She is much better today so we think we are on the right track. Our girl really reacts to drugs--as we know from the hospital experience.

When Lilian called yesterday, she reported that the comment function on the blog doesn't seem to work. I always sign in so I had no idea. I signed out and tried to write a comment to my last post. I was totally unsuccessful. We appreciate thoughts, prayers and good wishes! Please feel free to do so by simply sending an email to the blog. Write your email and then type this address into your regular email program without any spaces in the address:
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We do welcome and encourage comments from everyone. I didn't realize the comment function was not behaving properly.

And, I have put the email address in the "Introduction" box at the top of this page so its easy to look up at any time.