The latest from Connie. Despite the food complaints, he'd told me yesterday, he wouldn't mind one more day, so...maybe Monday, we'll see. Anyway, here's what she sent:

Talked to P on the phone. INR not at therapeutic level - translaton, until blood is thinner he can't go home.

Meanwhile, he is totally unhappy about the food, and being on fluid restriciton.

K took M up to see P. After church we will all go to Slate Run Farm, not too far from our home. It is an historical 1880's working farm. It is a beautiful day here, cool low humidity (so far)

K will take T up after that to "eat supper" with P. Quotes added due to the fact that P would take exception to the nomenclature - that any thing that looks like that, tastes like that, or is found elsewhere on the planet in this form would not be referred to as supper. I think it is double bad be OSU is 2 *2* 2 institutions in one! ;) both a hospital and a university. I think the theory on the University side is to make you have more appreciation of your mother and what ever she cooks(ed) for you, at an age where appreciation is difficult to even coerce. My theory on the hospital part is that they get really sick people there and I they use the "complaints about hospital food scale" to determine if the patient is alert and oriented. Maybe Swanno can give some insight as to which axis that belongs to. I'm thinking it must be a component of all four axis. Maybe we need to help P come up with a statement to demonstrate orientaion to person, place, time, and the world around him.

chest tube came out yesterday. Pain diminishing.

Complaints of breakfast include little box of honey-nut cherrios - no milk; 2 oz of Orange juice, a 1.5 inch tal container of yogurt and a plain bagel with one small pay of butter ot put over the whole thing.

After all this rehabilitation, maybe he will need to take on a job as "real Food" consultant for hospitals.

later~Connie `