{"id":5780,"date":"2019-06-23T08:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5780"},"modified":"2019-06-23T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T14:45:11","slug":"caretaker-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/?p=5780","title":{"rendered":"Caretaker Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Book and cat – my view in bed<\/p><\/div>\n

Our good friend Mary flew out from Arkansas to take care of me this week while John was in a mandatory class at FSI – she was amazing! It was also so good to have a friend to visit and laugh with. She rolled me to my doctor\u2019s office on Wednesday in my wheel chair (we did a trial run with John Monday night) – luckily the doctor\u2019s office is only two blocks away, but it\u2019s a long two blocks! (I tried pushing myself some – boy, it\u2019s hard!)<\/p>\n

I love my new doctor here, Dr. Debritz. They took out my stitches and said I\u2019m healing nicely (he also said it looked like my surgery had been done \u201cby the book, as expected from Harborview\u201d). He reiterated that it is going to be a long recovery (sadly).<\/p>\n

On the way home from the doctor\u2019s office, Mary and I actually stopped at a little restaurant along the way and had a quick breakfast. And Thursday night, she and John rolled me a block over to Ris where we had a wonderful dinner. It felt amazing to be out in public again. I get tired easily, so we skipped dessert, but it\u2019s nice to know I can get out a little bit.<\/p>\n

I started teleworking half-days this week! It\u2019s so nice to feel like I am contributing again. I also continued reading – I finished the excellent \u201cHouse on Sugar Beach,\u201d and also the fun page-turner, \u201cThe Wife Between Us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary left Friday afternoon to go back to Arkansas – we were sad to see her go! Even Flavia enjoyed having her here – Flavie actually let Mary pet her – this is amazing, since Flavie normally runs and hides if someone else is in the apartment – I told Mary she is the cat whisperer!<\/p>\n

Today is the fourth anniversary of Mom\u2019s death. I miss you.<\/p>\n

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Our good friend Mary flew out from Arkansas to take care of me this week while John was in a mandatory class at FSI – she was amazing! It was also so good to have a friend to visit and laugh with. She rolled me to my doctor\u2019s office on Wednesday in my wheel chair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}