Mary Update

My mom, redhatmary is doing pretty well but still in the hospital. It would be nice if folks who knew her were to visit her while she is there. She is in the Alta Bates Hospital, Summit Campus, 350 Hawthorne, Oakland. She is currently in room 4012. Her last name is the same as mine. She loves people to sit with her. If you don't know what to say, that's okay, she really likes to be read to.

They will be moving her to a rehab facility, probably near the hospital, at the end of the week. You can always call the hospital and find out where they have moved her.

Background: She went in for the open heart surgery last Thursday, May 27. They repaired her mitreal heart valve and did a bypass graft. She started out in CPU, then was moved to ICU. Two days ago she was moved to her own room. She was quite disoriented at first but it improving rapidly.

uncledark and I have to leave for four days to take our son to the Ancient Ways Festival. Troy will be coming up to Harbin on Friday. We will return on Sunday. It would help a lot if folks would visit her and help keep her spirits up.

Rowan Update

Rowan arrived home on Sunday, May 30th at 4 in the afternoon. As always, he was ecstatic to be home. He loved the changes we have made since he was here last and was very cuddly. He has been very loving in his visits with Granny redhatmary in the hospital. And asking lots of really cool questions of the medical personnel. Never ceases to delight me how quick and curious he is!

Monday was Rowan's Birthday Party. The theme was Spiderman. I made a cake that looked like a building with an action figure of spiderman on top. (It was even finished before the party started!) There was a pin the spider on the web game. Ten children and at least that many adults had a wonderful time eating cake and ice cream and hanging out together. The kids got along so well that we didn't have to enforce a single time out the entire day! In attendance were: Allegra, Victoria, Gabriella, Lynessa, Linnea, Kevin, Ori, Zander, and Meghan. Rowan was delighted to celebrate and play with his friends again. My favorite moment was probably watching Daddy airshipjones lead them in a game of Duck-Duck-Goose. The adults got to hang out under our beautiful new pavilion and gossip. It was lots of fun.

Yesterday was spent hanging out with his parents while we packed and did errands to prepare for the camping trip. We also visited Granny in the hospital again. I have had a bad head cold since Sunday. Last night the worst of it seemed to pass and now I just have the usual lung goop and a very sore nose/lip area. As I write this, uncledark is packing vehicles while airshipjones helps Rowan clean his room.

We leave as soon as we can get everything packed up... We will be back Sunday night. airhshipjones who is still job hunting, will follow us up on Friday. (He had a good job interview yesterday.) We hope to see lots of wonderful friends at the festival. Luv.