Progress

Manford is doing very well, and they've decided that he doesn't need rehab, after all; he's now able to walk with just a cane, and they plan to discharge him home next week, probably Tuesday or Wednesday (Monday is a holiday), with the home hospital for support. They are the ones that came before he was hospitalized, and have a nurse that comes every day, and PT and OT. He is able to come home for a visit tomorrow (and hopefully also Sunday and Monday, if it goes well), and is looking forward to some sausages and his own chair. My father and his wife arrived on Wednesday, and how have taken Emily and Joseph out of town for a couple of days, to Napier, on the East side of the North Island.

We don't have an appointment with oncology until February 11, but we will be looking into what the options are before then, both on our own and with the help of the Cancer Society. My work and colleagues have been very understanding and supportive, and I basically have all the leave I need. In the midst of this, we did manage to hire someone to help at home, and she has been wreaking some order in our havoc, and I am very grateful. And grateful, too, for all your thoughts and prayers.
Carrie