Sunday Update

Today's edition of the blog is brought to you by Doreen's granddaughters Kelsey and Amanda.

Sunday morning we went with Lee, Linda, and Dick to spend a couple of hours with grandma. When we first arrived, she was fairly groggy, but as we talked to her and encouraged her to eat, she perked up quite a bit. We were told her temperature had been high again that morning, but it was closer to normal during our morning visit. We were able to get her to eat all of her serving of watermelon and banana which was a welcome change after a primarily liquid diet the day before. Grandma requested a sweet potato for dinner and eggs and hash browns for her breakfast for Monday. We left around 1:30 to attend the memorial service for Sandra Borgmann.

The service was a wonderful celebration of Sandra's life and we were very proud of grandpa, who was the soloist during the service. We were all very touched by his strength and the beauty of his voice especially during such an emotional time.

After the service we (Kelsey and Amanda) went back to the hospital to spend a couple of hours with grandma. (Giving our parents the opportunity to go home and grandpa a much needed rest.) When we arrived she was very warm to the touch and seemed to be in pain. We talked to the technician who said grandma had a fever again. Once the proper medications were administered her fever was drastically reduced and we saw grandma as grandma again. We were able to get her to eat some of her sweet potato and strawberries and we shared stories in a very conversational way. We were then pleased as she seemed to fall into a very comfortable sleep before we left (unlike any sleep we'd seen in the past two days).

We have been so moved by the outpouring of support through visitors, cards, calls, and kind words that we've witnessed during our visit and heard about during the past month. We are so thankful that our family is in such good hands, especially since we are currently living so far away.