Hurdles and Turtles

Stan Here:

Of course the desire is to tell you that every day and moment brings progress.  These last few days though have stalled a bit and there has been quite a bit of discomfort.  As Deb"s system tries to get everything started again we were warned that there might be some nausea and she has had her share of that plus some real issues with pain in her midsection.  So it seems like a few more obstacles need to be passed and now after 8 days up here it seems like things are kind of moving real slow. They are looking at doing a few test to look at why things are slower than projected.  (They just came in and said they wanted to wait a while longer before they do that.) So we are in the waiting and hoping mode.

Deb has been able to have some food but it is on the prison camp proportion scale.  A little jello, some broth and a Popsicle or two.  Pretty meager.  Still with all of this there is some good news.
During the surgery they took some biopsy samples and those came back negative from the lab. So that at least keeps the spirits up.  Still no potential go home date.  Some good stuff has to happen before we can think about that.

Ross just came home from an 18 day trip with a Broadway on tour group doing Fiddler on the Roof. He is glad to be home and now has lots of work with Grand Rapids Symphony.  Traveling to all the locations and staying in hotels is just plain work.  They sold out most of the shows so in that way it was good.  Many days they had to do 2 shows which really is a long time on the instrument.

I will keep updating the progress.  Thanks for following.

Stan