Paul's Update - 11/04/07

Dear Friends:

Friday morning Dad headed out for Paul’s doctor appointment at 9:30am. His appointment was at 10am with the general practitioner. She was pleased to see Paul doing so well. She didn’t change any of his medicines ... yeah!! It is really nice that we don’t have to go through that since he always has a difficult time when there are med changes! She gave Paul & Dad their flu shots while they were there! The afternoon was quiet but Dad went and picked up Max at the babysitter’s at about 5pm. He spent about an hour and a half at our house before Mommy got home. He is such a joy and he just LOVES playing with Pap-Paw! Paul was watching them and at one point he looked up with a smile. Bill was out of town and Ronda had plans so we called Bobby & Jen to go out to dinner with us. We went to Yorkshire Restaurant. While we were waiting for our food Vikki said that Ronda was coming there for dinner also!! We ended up eating at the table next to Ronda & Jessie. Not our traditional dinner out with Ronda but we enjoyed seeing her. Jen wasn’t hungry but Bobby ate a nice meal. Paul had the Salisbury steak dinner and a dessert! When we got back to the house Bobby commented on Paul’s hair. He said “looks like you got a mullet thing going on” and Paul looked up with a big grin!! I think he was amused by Bob’s sarcasms!

Saturday Gradis came and I didn’t even hear her come in. She got Paul dressed and ready to start his day. Dad found a movie on the TV after breakfast that they were watching. I did some cleaning in the laundry room since that room has gotten out of control!! I was able to start some laundry while I worked in there. Since Bill was out of town and we had dinner plans for the evening we didn’t go to Warrenton for Mexican food. We have not been there for several weeks ... we need to get back on track!! LOL We went to the church in the evening for the Turkey & Oyster dinner that our church was doing. We were there until about 8:30pm. Paul enjoys Turkey ... not oysters. Alysa & I ate oysters! Carolyn and I were also helping in the dessert room. This dinner is quite a production for our church and it went really well ... a good time was had by all!!

Sunday morning Paul was up about 6am which was OK since Gradis came in around 6:30 (she forgot to set her clocks back!!). After he was up and showered we prepared to go out for breakfast with Ronda & Lew. Paul now uses his cane when we go out. Even though we are at Yorkshire Restaurant almost every Sunday some people don’t really know what happened to Paul. Our waitress asked me what happened to him ... she didn’t know even though she sees him all the time and has rejoiced with us as he has made progress! Everyone is always very nice about making room for Paul to walk past the tables. It is an old restaurant and the walkways are really not designed for persons with handicaps. Sunday was the 2nd anniversary of his survival from his horrible accident. It was a pretty normal day ... normal for us anyway! We went to Church as we usually do. It was communion Sunday and Paul WALKED up the aisle to receive communion. It was an emotional day for Dad & me. What a wonderful way to celebrate Paul’s miraculous recovery! Max came to church with us. All of our grandchildren were there this morning ... what a blessing! Chris was a little fussy and it is suspected that he is teething! Max spent the afternoon with us. He napped for a while but was up for several hours for us to play with him. Every once in a while he will go to Paul and stand at his knees. Paul seems to enjoy watching him. I look forward to the day that HE is on the floor playing with Max but for now Pap-Paw does that! Paul was up walking a lot during the day. Sometimes he just wants to walk around ... it is such good exercise for him! He was tired and ready for bed about 10pm. The time change will probably take time for his body to get use to since he doesn’t function by the clock ... he just wakes when he wants and usually goes to bed about 16 hours later.

Have a great day, Lynne & Carl