Mornings are good. Walt is still sleeping good and feels his best when he wakes up. He (usually) gets up before me. When I wake up I love to stay in the bed and read. I just tried to remember how long its been that Walt brings me my first cup of coffee, but I can't, it's been that long. Every morning he listens for signs that I am awake (I'm usually running for the bathroom). He comes down the hall with two cups in hand and sits on the side of the bed and we talk. We started a new routine a few days ago. Still with the coffee, but now he gets back in the bed and we cuddle and read together. Actually I'm doing the reading. We are reading "Tuesdays With Morrie". It's a wonderful story of a man who is dying, but he has such a positive attitude about life. I would recommend this book highly.
The days have changed. Walt can no longer eat any solid food. Just won't go down. We've moved on to mussy stuff. Right now I have soups. We have quite a variety going. I made curry soup, sausage soup, potato/leek soup, veggie soup, chicken paprika soup and a dear friend made broccoli soup and brought it to us last night. Everything gets a spin in the blender, but Walt says it tastes good. Problem is he is not getting much down. Yesterday I would say that he might have eaten a whole 2 cups of food all day. He did have his chocolate malt too. Oh, there is the melt-in-your-mouth chocolates he manages to get down. Right now the favorites are Rollos and Hershey bites.
So, moving on to the plans for the big "Going Away" Party. The friends have asked me to ask all of you for pictures or maybe you have a "Walt story". Anything that you might want to share with everyone. We know it's impossible for everyone to be able to be here. Just a couple of weekends ago we were suppose to be at our dear friends 50th wedding anniversary in S. California. We planned for a year and still we couldn't make it (Happy anniversary Joyce and Don. We miss you). So, this might be a way to "be there". I guess you could send them here. My email is conniejn1@gmail.com. The address is PO Box 8165, Klamath Falls, OR 97602.
The nurse comes today. We are up to twice a week with nurse visits now. Our home health aid came yesterday to bring supplies. Walt is still able to bath himself and do all of that so we don't work her very hard. We do have fun visiting with her.
Everyday we look to a new goal. Right now our big goal is to conserve energy and stay strong to be able to make it to the exciting annual meeting on Sunday. Walt has not been able to go out to our regular meetings in a while, but this is such a special one that he is determined to put on that tie and jacket and get to this one. Please pray for him to have the strength. This is so important to him.
Again, thank you for all of the prayers. We love you all.
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