October 19, 2010

Hello everyone, I hope this finds you all well and Happy.

Life here in our house has been fairly routine.

Dad is doing fine. I have seen little declines here and there. it is now very rare to here him speak anything. I see him smile and even laugh once in a while. When he does speak it is barley a whisper and rarely is any one able to decipher what he is saying. He is coughing allot more especially at nigh so the doctor has prescribed 5 mg of Morphine dissolved with a very small amount of water when he goes to bed. this helps allot. He eats good off and on his pattern seams to be eat good 1-2 days don't eat at all for 3 days. he continues to loose weight a little here and a little there.

I gave dad a haircut the other day it is much nicer not to have snarls in the back of his head every day. Dad is getting more and more rigged and it is getting harder to get him to bend enough to sit in his wheel chair. This is to be expected. he will probably soon get to the point where we don't even get him out of bed. it causes him so much pain to bend those joints that have been stiff for so long.

A tender moment I must share with all of you. Yesterday I found the video that Hospice made of with Mom so I decided to play it for dad. He started to smile and he even started to cry I said are you sad dad he said no so I asked him are you happy he said yes. it touched him so much to hear moms voice. I have not seen him smile like that in a long time. How special it was. I am so glad I did that and I will play it for him again another day.

Other than that life is basically day to day the same. We are getting Eric ready to leave for his mission. He reports to the Missionary training center in Provo, Ut. December 15th. he will be there for several weeks learning to speak Spanish before being sent to Vancouver Canada mission. He is so exited and cant wait. He will be a great Missionary.

Love you all Jo Ellen