It took all of an hour and a half to accomplish all that. It's kind of funny because it takes us almost an hour and a half just to drive to a mall from our home in Royal, then that same amount of time to drive home, and we have to spend more time in town once we get there because we don't get to go very often.
Terry says I must have a fever because I didn't even have a desire to walk the mall and purchase whatever I might find and like. Where would I put it? What would I do with it right now?
It is rather interesting around here. We used to drive the three hour round trip to go see the doctor and spend about an hour and a half there at the clinic. Now we walk the round trip in about a half hour and we spend at least three hours in the clinic.
Speaking of time ..., We were talking to our shuttle driver yesterday morning and he mentioned that the company working on the building across the street from us are non union and will probably have the building done a couple months earlier than expected. We have seen and have been impressed with their work schedule and habits. As we walked home from the clinic we noticed three city trucks parked along the street and half a dozen union workers standing around visiting and watching and accomplishing very little in a large amount of time. They were back today, many still standing around talking. One man was directing traffic and some may have been in the building, but four others were just visiting. Four large trucks were parked in the area and only one of them was being used.
We've been observing the sights and sounds of Seattle since we got here and it's been interesting for sure. We are glad that it's only temporary for us and we look forward to going home to our rural hide away as soon as we can. We aren't even half way there yet, but we still look forward to it.
The doctors tell us that transplant patients stay for at least 100 days after transplant and we are day 42 today.
There is no news about Terry today. It felt good to get out and do something the last couple days, but he really doesn't have energy to do much more than that. We are sure it will improve in time, but for now we are happy to take what we can get.
One more thing ...
One of the tenants here at Pete Gross House left a gift bag filled with some soup mix and a recipe hanging on our door knob to wish us a Merry Christmas. It looked as if they hung one on every door. How kind! We had the chicken and the carrots so we decided to make this the other day. It smelled and tasted delicious and made enough to freeze for a couple more meals. What a lovely idea and kind gesture. More proof of the good people everywhere.
Well, tomorrow is the first Sunday of the year. We'll try to make it a good one. We hope you have a good one too.
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