Free at last

Today the last tube tethering Mother to the bed was removed. She is feeling free as a bird! She can now walk around her room without assistance and without having to notify someone that she is getting up. Her balance is pretty good as long as she takes her time.

She was pleasantly surprised to look up this morning to see Debi and Phil at the door. They made a surprise visit on their way back home from a singing engagement in Mesquite. They had a nice long visit before they needed to leave for Buda. Phil is planning to return to East Texas late on Thursday and stay for the weekend.

Louanne has to leave on Wednesday late afternoon, so the timing is close to perfect for Phil's visit. Mother won't have to go more than 24 hours without one of her kids around to make sure she's following orders (hah!). She is back to having daily physical therapy now that the weekend is past.

Mother has been having quite the social day today, in fact. Roy Bass called to visit with her, and so did Lisa. She had nice long talks with both of them. She has also gotten emails from some of her favorite students from long ago.

Keep those emails coming to her, because she is wired to the www now and loves to play with her new toy. We have been having trouble getting her outgoing email to work, but Louanne is going to hook the iPad up to Mother's home computer tonight to get that fixed.

Mother is feeling so much better, she's thinking about making a run for it now that she's not connected to all those tubes. But she thinks
maybe she'll stay around a while since they treat her so well here. Her flowers are so nice that people walking down the hall want to come in and look.

And that's the news from Tyler, Texas, where all the children are smart, and it's so hot we're not sure if we're in Texas or Hades.