Hospital Trial Run

It has been a while so we thought that we would try to get a blog post off to you all. Tomorrow is our 3 month anniversary of being in Iowa. We truly thought that we would be heading back home sometime soon, wrong, even if Charlie would get the “call” today we are looking at 2 to 3 months from the call.

It is absolutely beautiful here now and really, for the most part, the temperatures have been in the 60’s and 70’s for the past month. Everything is blooming – it really is a lovely time to be in Iowa! The Iowans truly feel that winter was a no-show this year.

We thought that we would do a trial run to see what the hospital is like. Well, not really, but I did take Charlie to the ER on Friday night. He had been having quite a hard week with the hepatic encephalopathy which is common with cirrhosis patients and which needs to be watched carefully. So they admitted him and he was there until Monday late afternoon. His is fine now – they upped his medicine that helps to control the ammonia levels which contributes to the encephalopathy. We are very impressed with the University Hospitals and feel very confident that they will be handling the transplant procedure.

My brother’s 2 children were here with the grandchildren over the weekend and it was so fun to see them. I hadn’t seen my niece, Debbie, for about 4 years.

We just continue to fill our days with outings and enjoying this area. We are so excited – we got a call from Doug and he is coming April 19^th for a long weekend and bringing Sam, our oldest grandson.

Again, we want to thank you all of you for your continued prayers for us – that means a lot to us!

Hopefully, the next time you hear from us it will be to say – “We got the call” and we are on our way to the hospital!