What day is today?

This seems to be the question I have asked myself several times. Things have been a whirl wind for the last week. I believe today is Friday, day 5 after transplant, from now on known as anl, after new liver. Tim and I are somewhat settled in an apartment on Queen Ann hill, this looks temporary as the apartment we would like to be in will be available on Tuesday. Today we got the central line out, took a shower, walked again with out the walker. Melissa came from the Professional learning community conference to help us move into the new unit. After two trips to the car and 4 trips into the apartment, she wiped everything we could possible touch down with dissinfectant wipes, I got Tim down for a nap. Melissa gave Sarah (my oldest daughter in Tri Cities) the low down on both of us. She is quite astute and I cannot put on an act with her, she reads me too well. Tim gets nervous and starts complaining, I get frustrated and have to get busy, which makes, I want things set where I can find them and he wants to rest a bit. So we spiral - is that so different from other "old couples"? It sounds nice to say that, a bit warm around the corners of my heart. We are going to have to learn to give and take. I need to feel like I have things set up so I can take care of him, maybe I might need to set the timer for some down time first. I did that when Sarah was 2, Tim worked, and I was student teaching until 5 every night. I would come home and set the timer for 15-20 minutes. That was just our time, Sarah would get a book and we would read - usually poky little puppy, or draw, or play hide and seek. If the phone rang, it would go unanswered. Who ever could call back in 15 minutes. It made both of us remember the important things. Then when the timer went off we put things away, got dinner started, sorted laundry and took care of the daily things.

Tomorrow Melissa goes home - I will willingly share her with her own children, who are lucky to have her. Sarah and Leah(daughter #3) will come - sans Leah's pets and our only granddog Evie. Tim cannot have pets around for a while so we will have to see photos of the dog and the grandbabies.

Thank you to all of you who have offered help, prayers, good thoughts, phone calls emails. I have share most of them with Tim. I think my sister Karen has a good idea which I will work on this week, to write down all of the blessings we have recieved since this all started on the 28th of August when I came home after the first day of school to find Tim in an hepatic coma. I am not sure I will every know them all.

So tonight give the people close to you a hug, a smile, or an encouraging word, we are lucky to have today, even more to have friends, and if you are reading this - you have many friends.

Love to all

Tim and Judy