Tuesday, August 19

Everything went well today. Several times this morning, with physical therapist Tim assisting, Tommy walked across the gym using the walker, and then turned around and returned to his starting point (turning is more difficult than walking in a straight line). Tim says that since Friday Tommy has shown terrific progress. This afternoon, Tommy got a haircut and beard trim at Ren's barber shop. For dinner, he feasted on a jumbo lump crabcake that I brought him from the incomparable Crabcake Factory in North Ocean City, where I had met my D.C. pal Nancy (at the beach for a week with her family) for breakfast. Add to Tommy's crabcake a salad made with veggies from his sister Elaine's garden, and fresh local-grown strawberries over vanilla ice cream, and Tommy was one happy fella.