…not Mikie, but Lorraine.  She gets cut on this coming Tuesday at or around 9 AM.  The plan at this point is that she will be in Lexington Medical Center until next Friday or Saturday.  Then she should be able to go to HealthSouth for rehab for a few days and hopefully home by the holiday.  

Mikie is just doing fantastic.  His incision is healing nicely, but will likely not be healed enough to stop putting a dressing on it for a few more weeks.  A few weeks ago his average heart rate was probably around 120 or so and now I would put it at 80-90.  Urine output is quite normal in quantity and clarity, food intake is at least four cans, sometimes five.  It’s still pretty loose coming out the other end but at least it happens more frequently than it did in the past. (Although it is difficult to take him anywhere because of the frequency, if you know what I mean and I think you do.)  I haven’t seen a seizure in a week or so, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t had one.  We just could not expect Mikie to be doing any better than he is right now.  

I just got my desktop computer back up but I have a lot of rebuilding to do.  I haven’t tried to recover any of my data from any of the five hard drives I had in the system.  I’m going to hook them up one at a time with an external drive case and with a USB cable to see what I can get from them.  It’s nice to be able to use Outlook to handle my email again instead of using webmail.  If you think of it drop me an email do I can rebuild my address book.  Send it to mkimble@sc.rr.com.