Wednesday evening in Georgia

Beth, Mike, Christina and I met at the airport in Atlanta and went straight to the hospital. We headed down the hall to ICU and passed a door that said "Schmucker". To our delight and surprise Mom had been moved out of ICU this morning. Her oxygen is a little bit low but her cough has eased up quite a bit. She is very weak though and her words are labored and quietly spoken. She was scheduled for a transfusion this morning but in the end she didn't need it! Her blood counts have stabilized.

We didn't stay long so she could rest and went to the house for dinner that was provided by the ward members. We were presently surprised by our reto Dad. His hair has grown long and he looks a bit like he got stuck in the '70s. After dinner Dad and Mike went back to visit. The rest of us went to pick up Dan and then we visited again.

I kept asking her if she needed anything and if she was comfortable. She said she is comfortable. I asked her how the nurses were at that hospital and she said that medically they were very good, personally they weren't so good. They moved things and she can't find them. It takes them a long time to come in when she needed something. We will have to see if we can rectify that tomorrow.

I asked her if she wanted to say something for the blog and she said to tell everyone to "hang in there".