We had a GRAND time all weekend. All we had to do was sing or listen to music or talk with friends (or get neck rubs -- ooh, that was nice!) Didn't have to even THINK about filling out forms, or searching for more avenues of assistance, or making lists or insulating the cat or doing all the stuff we'd be doing or worrying about if we were home. Even the ride to and from was great -- listening to music, singing, riding in a very comfortable minivan (plus we stopped, as usual, at the Barrington Brewery for lunch).

Well, today Tom had two medical appointments (with 3 different doctors within the same practice) -- first at York Hospital at noon and the second in Newington at 1:30.

The good news is we both got a free lunch in the York Hospital cafeteria.

The bad news is they called Dr. Cunningham (whom he was supposed to see at the other location -- he's the guy who put in the defibrillator) to look at him and he decided he wanted to keep Tom overnight at York Hospital for observation and to put him on an antibiotic drip. (Tom's heart rate was elevated, too.)

But, of course, the good news is they are being very VERY careful and trying to head off at the pass any potential infection. He's in very good hands. And I should be able to bring him home tomorrow afternoon. (And, just as a sidebar, Tom will now be able to review the food and the nutritionists at THREE local hospitals.)

I also get another set of paperwork to fill out and turn in with photocopies of every piece of paper in our lives. Sigh. (But the people who guide me through that sort of thing are very nice.) And I found out what a friend's office looks like (she's the health sciences librarian there).

Linn