Awake: 5:40am Temp 28 sleep 6+25 sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
Kathy fills a cooking pot full of warm water…..to melt the heavy ice from our car windows; then we attend Mass @ 8:00am, today’s special intention is for Herm Lieb, a good family friend, who passed away several months ago. Afterward….we join the famous Koffee Klub members @ the conference table in the community center & do we ever have fun….YES, it’s good to be back home again.
Valerie @ the post office has a bundle of mail for us; good thing we drove the car here.
My 1st almost successful water canister fix in Pahrump lasted maybe (20) seconds; the 2nd almost successful water canister fix lasted (2-3) weeks before it, too, blew its lid. I was so tempted to try a 3rd fix…always the charm you know, but the good times with people & busy Las Vegas adventures sidetracked my intentions & maybe that was for the best. But now that we are back in the area where these canisters came from; I make a call to the secretary of the guys who provided the canisters. She says she’ll check it out.
Mid afternoon, we are in for a surprise. I look out our front window & who is driving up our driveway, but the Foote family! They had an appointment for Matthew at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, finished sooner than they thought they would, & took a chance that we might be in our motorhome for a visit & we are. We welcome them with open arms & big smiles; no runny noses or coughing could be heard. We are happy to see them all, even Kevin.
Matthew is developing a real understanding of his insulin needs & testing. I asked him to explain the entire testing procedure; he took out the glucometer (used to measure blood glucose level), matched the control number on the testing strip to the setting on the glucometer, pricked & then squeezed his finger to get a couple drops of blood (the first wiped on a paper towel, the second applied to the testing strip). Then he read the number on the meter & told me what it was. Melissa has done an exemplary job working with Matthew to get to this high level of understanding. Accepting the 6 shots of insulin each day is a bit tougher for him. Fortunately, God is giving Melissa an extraordinary amount of patience & creativity; she pretends to be the food that Matthew is about to eat & asks him repeatedly while preparing to give him the injection, "Can you eat me now? Can you eat me now?" To which, Matthew replies, "No" until the shot is given and, then with a big smile, replies with a resounding "YES!" and starts eating.
As the Foote boys (not Kevin) roved around & explored our newly renovated motorhome, we soon realized that our baby proofing had not yet been done; we’ll definitely try to remember that in the future. This was a little thing, not to be overstated; we’re delighted to be able to visit with our grandsons, they are much more important than things, but life is made easier for all with some temptations removed.
After the Footes drive off, we watch the nat’l news & then have a dinner of: meat loaf, baked potato, asparagus, & salad.
Late evening; we finish watching the DVR movie of: “Elvis: That’s the Way it was.”
Since the evening is so young & Kathy is so beautiful, we start another DVR movie called: “Marked Woman.” Ahaa, Kathy wasn’t as awake as I thought & she lasted only (15) min; to be continued.
Lights out: 11:05pm
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