What’s Up?????

Here in NH we are in the midst of Motorcycle Weekend. Many bikes travel Rte 25 which we can see and hear fom our house. After work today and following some worship preps for Sunday, I took Kat for a meal out in Ashland. We traveled the long way home to check out the bikers. There’s a group of Soldiers for Jesus (of the Covenant Motorcycle Ministry) right here at Rumney Bible Conference and we are thrilled about what they do.

Kathy expressed her desire to be a biker so when we got home she looked online and found a few impressive looking ‘trikes’, some more her style than biker’s style. It was fun to look!

For the past few weeks, she’s been doing bike riding and swimming at the pool. She also planted some flowers which she watered tonight walking around with the hose hooked to her walker as she braved the terrain (a bit bumpy)! She also took our grandson, Brent out for a meal at our local diner. She’s doing quite well!

Her most recent accomplishment was a drive at dusk and in the rain. She did remarkably well. We had a second car at the garage and Kat drove me down (about 12 miles one way) to get it after I left work and shopped so we didn’t get back home until 9:30pm. On a sad note, she did experience another seizure on Memorial Day. After a few phone calls to the local emergency room and the Neurologist on duty at Dartmouth, she rested for a few hours until she admitted (and I felt similar) that she was scared … so we drove down to the ER in Plymouth. They found that her meds were at a very low level (4.1 and should have been 10) causing her to experience this. We’ve have had issues with this medication since March after we found the cost was higher than we could afford. The Neurologist put her on an older more affordable med but that resulted in a seizure in the hospital back in April, Easter Sunday while she was being treated for cellulitus. She was then given another medication at the hospital which was the low count they found in her blood test while in the ER. We have since switched back to the original med she had since Sept ’07 without any incident all the way to the switch just prior to the Easter ordeal. The cost has leveled but we plan to get her on med help. It will be three weeks since her last episode this coming Monday which we thank God. These incidents do a loop on her progress. She was just beginning to bend her knee while walking and then …

She’s bouncing back well, though! Thanks for your prayers and love. She journeys on! Check back.

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