Happy Thanksgiving!

Mary toughed it out today and used Tylenol and Advil to control the pain and avoided the narcotics. Her stomach was fine but the back pain was a bit extreme at times. Basically, though, she enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday and spent a good amount of time in the kitchen helping Reenie preparing the meal plus she was able to eat a very generous (for Mary) plate of food.

She also had the pumpkin pie dessert!

She has lost 5 lbs of bloat since starting the diuretics a few days ago and that has taken pressure off of her abdomen. She has one or two more lbs to lose to be back to pre-bloat weight.

We did video conference with two of Reenie's sons, daughter-in-law today, and d-i-l's family. We also did video conference with Mary's daughter, son-in-law and grand daughters in Pasadena. Mary talked with her oldest son and I talked with my sister and brother so we can good connections all around. I had talked with my son and daughter earlier in the week.

The household is off to bed. Kamie and Daniel are actual doing early black Friday shopping. The oldsters are simply exhausted.

Mary's famous turkey enchiladas tomorrow!

Pat (writing from Mary's computer).