Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday and Monday

We had a super weekend. And yes, we did visit Ed's grandma's grave on our drive to the condo at the Lake. Ed's parents' bought four graves there years ago, so we will get two of them and Ed's sister will get two. We found them and lay down on the grass to see what the view will be like. It's quite pretty, close to some trees and faces the mountains close by.

On Sunday we went to church and then out for a 45 minute bike ride. Ed was able to do it for a short time. On Monday, we tried our sea kayaks on the lake to see if Ed could do that. He was good for about 30 minutes. I went a little longer. The lake was calm, which helped. But, at least he was able to. He lacks upper body strength as well as over-all stamina. We hope he can build his strength up and we can go on longer rides. We also took our four-wheelers out and went with the Carlisles, showing them a good trail up past Meadowville. That ride last about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. He was pretty tired after that. Then we had to clean the condo. He helped for a couple of hours and then was done, so I did the rest and it took much longer. We didn't leave until 10:30 p.m. and got home at 12:30 a.m.

On the drive home, we came across an elk blocking our lane. Since it was late at night, there was very little traffic on the road, so Ed moved to the other side, but as we passed the elk it veered and hit into my door, bending in the mirror and making a small dent. We feel really lucky that it wasn't worse.

Ed went to the doctor on Wednesday. His numbers are still down, so she cut his antibiotic from 4 to 3 a day and told him to come back in two months. He only has to go in for blood tests every two weeks now, instead of every week. She says she doesn't want to take him off the antibiotics too soon, as she wants to make sure the infection is dead. He is lucky he isn't having intestinal problems from all the antibiotics. Anyway, we feel very hopeful. Ed just needs to find a way to build his strength back up. He has a lot of pain, still, and his left foot is still numb. He eventually may need to have that last hip surgery and have a complete hip put in.