Once in awhile-now and again-this is us

Jerry’s feeling so much better. We took him some McDonald’s hamburgers yesterday, and wallah, he’s ready to come home.

He’s ready,  but the question is,  am I ready??????  I guess we will see.  He is taking his first shower at the hospital this morning so that is out of the way. He was given a walker which I will be making him use.  He was also given a potty chair, which will be at his discretion to use; and clean!

The doctors haven’t prescribed rehab, so we’re waiting to see what he will have to do at home. I know we will start walking again.

He’s a very lucky man.

i think i might be needing a new heart santa. can i wish for that? you got it

i’ll add a post every once in a while. jerry still needs wishes to heaven for now. thanks for helping him out with that.

love, jill

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jerry’s had a lot of people praying for him. thank you all.

we saw him this morning as they were getting ready to move him to a regular room. no more  icu.      yay!   he’s looking really good.

he has a new friend in this red pillow. it can be  used to gently put pressure on his chest to ease some of the discomfort.  it comes with a sharpie pen so his visitors can write a message on it. pretty cool.

tracy had to go back to north dakota today. i’ll miss her. she’s been so such help to me. “THANKS TRACY”. tony has been here every step of the way. “THANKS TONY”.

Chris and Jose have been feeding me and being on call for anything. all the neighbors have been wonderful. “THANKS EVERYONE”.

love, jill

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Jerry got the tube removed from his throat last night. A big improvement. This morning he was alert and attempting to talk. He had just been given a shot of pain medicine. the nurse said it was ten times stronger than morphine. Wow. They are taking good care of him. Jerry was the only patient of the night nurse.

I know you will all keep him in your prayers, and I will keep you posted.  Thank you.

Love,  Jill

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I know I should have told you sooner but I was waiting to hear from the doctor. I’ve only known since last Tuesday that Jerry was going to need heart bypass surgery. The doctor just came in and said everything went well and he is doing fine. His heart will be like new again. Whew!

Keeping track of Jerry.

He was in surgery since eight this morning. I’m so glad it’s taken care. His a fib should improve also.

Now don’t you guys do this to me.

I will keep you posted.

Love, love, love

Jill

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Linda is a jersey girl. She wasn’t connected, but did hear stories. We had been wanting to see the mob museum, so this was the perfect time to go.

It’s in an interesting old post office.

I was having trouble getting good pictures. Hmmmmmm.  And of course you understand; I can’t show you Linda’s picture with the photo of the person she knew. That has to stay in Vegas.

We had lunch that day at thuys little sister and husband’s new restaurant. Pho mai mai,  meaning pho forever,  my my that pho is good,  and mai is their last name,  so two mai’s own the restaurant. Frank and Linda ate every bite of their pho.

They have only been open four months and business is booming. The food was so delicious. The bbq shrimp were out of this world.

We finally found Josh, our tattoo guy,  at a new shop. Revolt Tattoos. We lost track oh him him for a couple of years. We got very small stars this year.

And the we saw the greatest show on Earth,  ‘LOVE’.

Sorry you’ll have to go see it for yourself.

More later

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Frank and Linda are walkers, hikers, rock climbers (at one time), kayakers just to name a few. So we drove out to the red rock area west of Vegas. 

While they we’re taking a hike we enjoyed the visitor center. So much interesting information. And pictures… are worth a thousand words.

It was a beautiful day. We actually had good weather the whole trip.

Frank and Linda might be interested in using the coach sometime, so he tried out driving it. He said it’s easy to handle. Now he just has to learn to empty the holding tank.

Of course we ate at Mon ami Gabi. Because we are in the know, we got three desserts.

And watched the belliago fountains.

Walked through the casinos.

We walked from the belliago to the Wynn. You might say so what. But people in the know say “WOW”

Linda saw someone she knew in the mob museum.

Stay tuned

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The dolphin habitat is in the rear of the Mirage hotel. We scored free passes because we made a few complaints about the parking situation for oversize vehicles. The manager was very friendly and also waived the resort fee for our room.

It’s amazing how close to the dolphins you can get.

Absolutely Fabulous! I still remember our time in the pool with them.

The exotic animals are near the dolphin pools in the rear also.  It’s wonderful how they are treated. Google it sometime.

Midas’s cousin.  By a heart rock

As we were leaving, we paid one last visit to the dolphin underwater viewing area.

Hope you get a chance to see it sometime while you’re there Sharon.

Stay tuned,  I have big news.

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we had a good visit to las vegas, again.  our neighbors took us to help celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary. (look at what room we got at the mirage). the whole trip was a gift from them.

las vegas was all decked out for christmas, as if it could have any more lights.

our friends frank and linda.

and speaking of lights we took the night tour of the neon museum. they are doing so much to restore and preserve these old signs. it takes so much money though

the restored lobby of the la concha hotel is the office of the museum now.

this sign was very pretty.

we drove around downtown to see the remaining neon lights being used today. there’s only seven or eight. this one is from the hacienda where the infamous mandalay bay is now. we stayed there on our very first trip to vegas in the sixties.

while walking over the bridge to cross the street i took a picture.   this is vegas baby.

on our trip we also saw the show ‘love’, went to red rock canyon, and visited the dolphin exhibit at the mirage. oh and the mob museum and ate at mon ami gabi.

stay tuned

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