Paul's Update - 06/28/06

Dear Friends:

Today was movie day at the Johnson's. Paul and Tabby are watching some "series" movies. They were on part II of a three part movie when I came in tonight. After dinner tonight Tabby decided to bottle feed Max. She put Max in Paul's arms and let Paul do it. He did real good and even stopped feeding at the right time to burp him. It is nice that he gets to be "dad" some of the time. He really enjoys participating with Max! Even Pap Paw (Carl) is getting to help with Max. He got to choose an outfit for the baby today and he even changed a diaper (wow ... he didn't even do that for his own kids!!). Tabby's mom had to go home today. She was out of her medicines and was having lots of pain from her fibromyalgia. She will be very missed. She has been a great help for Tabby! Tabby continues to recover. She is feeling pretty good and plans to discontinue the extra nursing care (8pm-midnight) after the 4th of July Holiday. It has been good to have the extra care but Tabby finds that she is also staying up until after the nurse leaves each night. She will probably get more sleep and she can handle Paul during the night if he helps and is cooperative. She also has Bobby there during the night if she gets in a bind. Dad was pretty tired tonight and I didn't get many details of the day. He looked good when I was there and was pretty alert. Our hope is that once we can start eliminating the Depacote that Paul still takes we will start seeing more physical improvements!! He certainly doesn't seem to have trouble understanding us or the things we talk about and ask him!

Have a great day! Lynne & Carl