My Son Is Coming Home

Well, it has been a long run for Byron at the trial in SF. He departed for the West Coast mid January and is returning home post trial mid June. His three weekend visits home amounted to a total of less than 120 hours (much of which was jet lag). So it will indeed be good to have my Son home again for a couple of months until his next out of town trial or whatever. It has been a long while since I last posted here. So, here is a quick update.

Well I have been using my Olympus E-500 with much enjoyment taking photos of the puppies, family members and whatnot. Really enjoy being back at PMRI working out Monday through Friday. It is just a six mile drive to Pellport on Delaware 52 and most of the folk who work there are still there, so it has been like returning home. I do six plus miles five days a week using two bikes, treadmill and elipical (sp). Also do 66 to 99 crunches most days and have started back doing about half the weights three times a week (except when my neck is stiff or since I went on blood thiner). Yes, I had a couple A-fib episodes while on the equipment, so Dr. Goldenberg put me on a heart monitor for three weeks and after seeing one or two racing heart reports from the monitor, he had be start taking a blood thinner and another pill to keep my heart at a steady beat. The blood thinner requires I get my blood tested every week for level of warafin in it.

Ann continues at Delaware Curative Workshop for PT after having several falls earlier in the year. She had a visiting nurse come to the house for about three weeks before starting at DCW.
I got her a cane which she barely uses and the nurse had her get a handicap top for our bathroom toilet. It has arms and a higher seat that makes it easieer for Ann at night. It was during night visits to the bathroom that she had her falls that resulted in Dr. Janis reevaluating her need for PT. We also started seeing a Nurologist to keep track of Ann's progress. Katie and Byron were able to talk Ann into agreeing to sell the Accord. Byron mad arrangements for Jeff to promote and sell the car. Jeff did a great job putting up on-line ads with lots of photos he took. he took his wife, Deb, to Flordia for a week, so we should know more about the status of the car sale when he returns.

Cedar, Byron's pup, developed a limp in her left rear leg that caused us to visit Dr. Hardy at Brandywine Hundred Vet for x-rays and some meds. After a month with no improvement I got Hardy to refere us to Dr. Jankowski who is a ortho specialist and he operated on Cedear to replace torn lig. That was two weeks ago and Cedar continues to recover slowly by well. Meantime, while Byron was home the other weekend to visit Cedar he discovered that Charcoal has a new growth on her paw. I took her to the Vet the other day and Dr. Hardy gave me a $1,200 cost estimate to remove a bunch of lumps and clean her teeth. I have put off doing that until Cedar has time to heal some more. While all this has been going on, we shipped Aspen down to Katie's for a visit with Lexie. it was one of Byron's great ideas and has allowed Cedar the peace and quited needed to mend.

The job hunt is goes one, with little to show for it but hours of searhing job sites on the Internet and several forwarding of my resume to ChristianaCare, AAAMid-Atlantic, and a couple of other
organizations with job openings. Spoke with the HR person at Christiana Care but got the impression that I was condidred to qualified and old for the marketing position that was open. No call back for interview. Have also not heard back from Triple AAA reference its marekting psoition. There was a good PR Director spot at a hospital in NJ and also at Beebe Hospital in Lewes, but travel is out of the question.

Spoke to Adam Ellick the other evening and learned that things are going well for him. He is now full-time at the NY Times working in new Video News department. He is planning to return to Indonesia during July with one of the Times editors and a director to film a documentry. Lynne is doing okay. I talked with her for her birthday yesterday. Also talked to Norman earlier this week and will be having lunch with him in a week or so. Richard Robthwell has retired from RT&E. Aly Irsh left RT&E for job in Maryland. RT&E is hiring back some former staff -- Barry Angeny and Terry Colgan.

That's the catch up update for now