Sunday August 5, 2012
Another busy week has passed, with another coming up.  Last week Mark, Tina and Grant were here from Monday until Friday.  They were wonderful, helping out in so many ways I can't list them all, but some of the biggest ones were shopping for a new printer to replace the dysfunctional one, installing it, changing out the refrigerator in the house for the better one in the garage,  and doing a lot of other smaller things. Of course we always enjoy their company. 

On Monday also, Norm arrived, and through the week, we were  able to spend time with him as well as Del and Chuck. It is so good to have family around! Thanks Norm for taking our wretched garbage to the dump and thanks to Del and Chuck for the use of their pickup, since ours is in Seattle right now.  Chaunda used it, and will return with it this week.

Leland is doing as well as he ever does.  Compared to good health, he is not there yet, but compared to some of the worse times, he is feeling better.  Such ups and downs leave us grateful for the good days, and seldom able to plan very far ahead.  He has been paying bills today, and scanning old slides on the new printer, something he has not had energy to do for quite a while.  Sabbath was good too, we went to church, then Norm, Del and Chuck came for dinner (bringing a good share of it) and stayed the rest of the day, which we enjoyed.

One really good note for today:  He gained back 4 of the five pounds he lost on the cleanse which makes me really happy! 

He will have blood tests done early in the week, then on Wednesday will go to Portland for his MRI.  His Urologist, Dr. M, wants  all these tests repeated in three months, which will be November.  So this set will be a very good baseline, as none of them were done in the beginning.  I do not know how a CAT scan (which was done at first) correlates to an MRI, but will find out. 

We just got a phone call from Jannie telling us Mom VT is not doing well at all; we are expecting her to leave us any time now.  She is very tired; it will  be a mercy for her  to rest until Jesus comes.