COLUMBUS OH

Ugh!!!!!!!!

E-e-e-e-e-e!!!!!!!!!!

Frustration knows no bounds.

A whole new set of apologies. In the first place, we did publish a 4 January entry, but it's no longer on the site. So to avoid extra work, here it is as a quote:

"Well, the holidays are over - and things are a worse mess than before.

"When Paul took Bobbi back to the orthopod (on the 22nd) he told them that Bobbi's tibia indeed was fractured. He insisted he never had seen such a thing before (which prompted Lew to wonder where he trained). He gave her a short boot to wear and told her to return again in another month. Nevertheless it will take almost until Lew's birthday for her tibia to heal. Except for Lew's gym on weekday evenings, both will be confined to the house. Good thing Paul still is available to run errands. However, his nursing school starts again next week, so that will drastically decrease his availability. It is unclear what the 2 cripples will do.

"That weekend Lew had a 24-hr diarrhea which did not affect him a whole lot.

"The next week after the medical appointments Lew got into a serious conflict with one of his cardiologists. As a consequence he started checking with OSU about a potential transfer, and meditated on the baleful changes that have occurred in the medical business since he graduated.

"With Bobbi confined to bed, Xmas and New Years both were worse than anticlimactic. Neither Bobbi nor Lew could think of any gifts they could ask for beyond better health. The next day they made phone calls to a few relatives and a few friends, but couldn't develop enough initiative to be more systematic about it.

"Enough of an unpleasant subject. In between vacations Paul continues to attend a nursing program (with the familial straight "A"s of course), while Rob continues massaging for a local accupuncturist - now yielding a pretty good income since he has built up a practice. In Florida George and Bryan continue their schooling as well, George in IT and Bryan on the trumpet. G'ma & g'pa are pleased (and much relieved).

"The one bright spot in our lives is the animals - officially still 4 of them, but Rob leaves his little dog with us while he is working. All of them still are terminally cute, and the 3 dogs extremely playful when not asleep. G'ma's big black tom cat remains extremely shy, but is quite loving towards lew, who has been training him with kibbles.

"That is the best we can do right now. Of course we are expecting Bobbi will be released in a couple of weeks - but we've been there before."
Now the rest of the February entry:

With Bobbi confined to bed, and Lew needing to sit with her for safety's sake, both have been confined to the house except for Lew's gym each weekday evening. The Airstream sits in the backyard all nice and shiny - but not moving. Rob has used it in order to internet, but Lew hardly has been in it.

There has been some progress, however. Last week Bobbi once again returned to the orthopod. And this time he at least permitted her to trade out the boot for a slightly less restrictive ankle brace. She also was permitted to leave the house to attend church yesterday - which took place without incident. So in three weeks she returns again, with the possibility of switching to an aircast.

Lew has remained as unchanging as Mt. Rushmore, and Paul continues with his nursing practicum at the city's most upscale hospital - he had requested assignment to one of the prison rotations. Since he is in school again, we see little of him. And as usual, the animals are wonderful.

Now this is long enough, so we will post it - no doubt with typos and all.