Rob's update Saturday 3 March 07

Hey all, I'm responding on what will be Rob's new toy, thanks to
Mandy's boyfriend, Jim, and a certain wonderful lady in a northern
state. The arrangement is that this laptop will go to the hospital or
nursing home with us and that it is Rob's, but we will take it home
when we go home ourselves. Less chance for theft that way. After Rob
is gone, ownership of the laptop will go to Jim. This is an ACER
bought at Radioshack for $700 with a $100 rebate. Jim ponied up over
half of the cash for it, and I covered the rest. It has microsoft
vista on it and is wi-fi (obviously) wired.

We're looking at nursing homes for Rob. I have received two good
recommendations, or at least good as of 10 years ago. We hope to have
him back in Fayetteville this week. I'm currently waiting for lunch
and for Mike to get his heinz ketchup *** up here so we can take this
to Rob. I think Rob will really appreciate this.

We're back on the rollercoaster. When I called the rehab center,
Eric, Rob's nurse, said that Rob was sitting in the lunch room eating
and that he'd responded well to therapy. This after yesterday when
Rob was incontinent, unable to make sense, and so forth. I was told
to get used to it. I think this one is going to be a long one and
going to hurt. Sigh.

To be honest MaryL, I hadn't even thought about DNRs. Oh God, I don't
want to make that decision. As I just posted, Rob was not competent
yesterday, and I talked to the Social Worker who would be doing all
legal paperwork, and he said that he couldn't notarize any legal work
for Rob when he, the social worker, couldn't verify that Rob really
knew what he was signing. I agee with him. But this doesn't make it
any easier.

Pam S.

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