Tuesday

Well what a good nights sleep last night and around 6 AM I was up and ready for the day. After my few quiet moments and a bowl of oatmeal with a banana, peach and blueberries I was ready for my morning walk with Dee and Bonnie(dog). We did a good 45 minutes and I worked up a sweat by the time we got back to the house. The surrounding here are just magnificent with a clear view of the Massanutten Mountains to the east and North mountain to the west and the valley in between. There is a huge Holstein Dairy just behind their house with fields of green corn and rolls of hay. The quietness is super except for the mooing of the cows and occasional dog barking.

We got ready to drive down to D.C. so we took I-66 and headed towards D.C. about 10:30. We stopped in Manassas for Chik Filet before getting to Vienna where we caught the Metro, leaving their car at a parking garage. Well let me say the Metro was quite an experience and luckily Dee had taken it before and knew the route so we were well informed. It still took us nearly 2 hours as we had to change different lines and eventually rode a shuttle bus to the VA. hospital and let me say there were heat records being set in that area. After leaving Woodstock around 10:30, which is about 75 miles away east of D.C. we finally arrived around 2 PM.

Paw Paw(dad) was still sedated as the doctors wanted to do another procedure to remove the blood clots that had formed and eventually were successful after freezing the clots to make them easier to remove. He was of course on a ventilator and unconscious but a lot of the swelling had started to go down and his color was starting to improve. Hopefully tomorrow they will bring him to and start to get him up and moving around as now there is the risk of pneumonia and infection. He also has some arithmya or irregular heartbeat which is common with his age in this type of operation. We are hopeful as the doctors were very upbeat about his chances of a complete recovery. Many thanks to those who took a few minutes to lift him up in your thoughts and prayers.

We got back to Woodstock around 7:30 leaving Dee at the hospital where her 2 older sisters(Josie and Pat) had been staying the past couple of nights. Dee will stay the next couple of nights giving them a break so Nancy and I will drive in again tomorrow morning shuttling clothes and personal effects. Well at 8 PM it still was 91degrees but at least the humidity has lessened. LATER