Friday, September 25, 2009

Tommy has continued to get back up to speed, and in a week or so he should be back to about where he was on Memorial Day weekend, when he went to the emergency room as all his looming problems came to a head. He is now again able to take all of his weight when doing transfers, and soon he'll be walking those dozen or so daily "laps" on the porch with the walker and me assisting. Bob Cairo and his staff at Tidewater rehab have done a great job helping Tommy; he may actually have only another week or two at Tidewater before his prescription runs out. Then we'll be on our own again for therapy, but I have learned a lot from the Tidewater folks so we'll be ready.
Yesterday evening we went to the VFW for the post's last crabfest of the season. It was Patti's birthday party, so we had a tableful of pickers with flowers and a cake to top it off. We sat at the far end of the enclosed porch, with a fabulous view of the sunset over Indian River Bay. Patti's neighbor Gordon very kindly picked crabs for Tommy, allowing me to kick back for a while. It was a very pleasant way to end the summer.