Looking Ahead

Yesterday was a better day for Mom. She was able to move to a chair to attempt to eat (eating is still a problem) and she stayed awake a tiny bit to talk to my aunt. When Mom dozed, she actually went into a restful sleep.

The doctors are still clueless over the source of infection and they have backed off the antibiotics to avoid making them ineffective. All we can do is wait to see how Mom's body responds this time around.

In the meantime, Denny has a bad cough that I'm afraid will turn into bronchitis; it's something he gets occasionally when we return to Ohio. So no more sharing of glasses and kisses for a while as I don't need to catch whatever he has and take it to the hospital with me. Bummer.

In an effort to make life seem more normal for us, Denny has decided to start making a spreadsheet of some interesting sounding places to eat from the "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" show on the Food Network channel. While we won't travel to an area simply to eat somewhere, if we happen to be in or near a town on the list, we'll make a point to try it out. Yesterday I used some of our rewards points from our credit card to order a metal detector, figuring to use it to look for gold flakes and nuggets when we're geocaching out in the mountains of Arizona as there is still gold in them thar hills. The two of us decided that we would be optimistic about returning to our lifestyle of travel and this is one way to create some new goals for when we once again hit the road. I have no clue as to when that will actually happen, but happen it will.

One step at a time.