January 31,2010
1719 Hours

Darlene was moved to a familiar room yesterday afternoon, A room with good karma, room 217. This is where she was back in December.

Dar’s folks and sister were able to visit and spend time with Dar together as a family once she was moved to her private room.

This morning I took Dar’s chair over in the van in the hopes that while Dar is at the Med Center she will be able to sit a bit and get out of bed.

Physical therapy paid a visit to Dar this morning and worked out some of her stiffness.

I am told that Dr Arragonte will be seeing Dar sometime tomorrow and will most likely turn up her pump. It is my hope that Dar will head off to Rehab once again before returning home.

Knowing all too well that Dar is going to be susceptible to all kinds of infections I am beginning to wonder if there might be something here at the house that may be affecting her ability to fen off some of the everyday things that us folks don’t even worry about. We do our very best to keep the house clean and as germ free as possible, dust and vacuum frequently, we do our very best. I am beginning to get curious about airborne molds or something of the like. I have no idea how one would find out some of these answers but if these trips to the ER continue I may have to find out if Dar may be allergic to or be having some sort of adverse reaction to something here in the house.

We did receive some disheartening news this weekend, the help that we were hoping to be able to utilize when Dar returns home is all but gone with the exception of the pre-arranged times we can bring Margie in to the mix.

I have another lead that I will start looking into tomorrow and I pray that we might get some positive answers that will help us in the future. Our lead is a lady that works for Blue Shield and was instrumental in qualifying Ryne Spitzer and his family with around the clock assistance. I will make contact tomorrow and hopefully will be able to put our Blue Cross Case Manager in touch with the appropriate folks that may be able to help.

I will also be contacting our Home Health agency to obtain a list of employees that I can hire out of pocket.

I am amazed at the number of “certified” and “licensed” day care providers, nanny’s, and babysitters for small children that advertise on Craigslist and other media outlets. For the amount of these adds there are none for folks looking to help those that find themselves in similar situations like ours. I think there is a “foundation” or something of the like in here somewhere. We certainly can’t be the first to run into this predicament.
Well, I hope you have all had a great weekend, get ready for more rain this week, we certainly need it.

Please continue to pray for Dar and as I have requested before, if you have ideas or know somebody that knows somebody please feel free to contact me.

Until next time,

All our love,

Dar/Danny/Jamiesue