This week we were busy helping friends who are just a few years older than we are. One is in a nursing home after breaking a hip. He'd like to come home, but after taking him and his wife (who is fine) out for lunch, we realized that he can't go home. His physical and mental faculties have declined. Is the latter due to being in the nursing home with very little stimulation? Perhaps it's due to his declining hearing?
A few days later, we had lunch with a friend who passed out at the restaurant, requiring an ambulance to the hospital. We stayed with her in the ER until it was decided to insert a pacemaker at the university hospital in Burlington, about 45 minutes away. Paul drove her car to our house, and two days later, we picked her up and took her home, along with her cute yellow car. She was very perky by that time, but now we hear she has had another episode. Perhaps the problem is more complex than the need for a pacemaker?
It all makes me very glad that I am still walking, talking, writing, reading, sewing! My A1c and weight are both down, and the doctor has reduced my diabetes med. She promised that it may be removed all together if I continue on this downward trajectory. My visiting sister-in-law noticed the difference which is nice to hear. She and my brother are visiting from New Jersey - early leaf peepers! The fall colors are beginning, but it will be a few more weeks until peak foliage. Still, visitors, including busloads, are arriving.
I finished a sweet little burgundy hat for "Bags of Love," which makes three for kids going into foster care. The picot edge on that hat will look cute on a little girl. I have some variegated green yarn to make another hat, but it will have to wait. I just started a striped sweater for myself. Not sure i like the yarn, but if not, I'll make a few scarves and more hats.
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