7/7/20 Extended Stay To Recuperate

After 10 days of pain and 3 visits to the ER in the middle of the move, Doctors find a hot dog size piece of strangulated fat adhered to her abdominal wall and small intestine near her appendix which is also enlarged so surgery removes both.  Her hospital room in Hood River, Oregon has a great view of the Columbia River and Mount Adams when it is not so cloudy.  Looking at Mount Adams to the right of the big pine tree you are also looking over Zoe's new house!  Nice to be staying with Zoe when this happened and not be in Alaska or British Columbia on our covid cancelled 62 day RV trip like we were suppose to be at this time! 

Will not be home to greet the newly weds Jack and Michelle who are moving from Hawaii  to Boston, so they will have a couple of weeks honey moon/quarantine at our place.  Sherrie will set them up with her good home cooked food.  They are still trying to find a place to rent in Boston before school starts for Jack at Tufts,  but since it will be online due to COVID, they have time to find what they want.  

Zoe Picking Sister Ball Momentos

The extra week at Zoe's was a wonderful opportunity to spend some quality time together.  It especially gave us time to  paint flowers on her "garden wall" next to the kitchen.  She plans to ask everyone who visits to paint a flower.  

We have been away from home for almost 6 weeks and at Zoe's for almost a month and with mixed emotions, it's time to head to Rhode Island.  Hate leaving when we don't know when we will see each other again as Covid cases are skyrocketing around the country worse than ever.  With dangerous leadership from the White House, and states choosing to ignore recommended safety guidelines, the  pandemic is exploding.... no surprise, 2 weeks after July 4 partying.  In US 4.6 million known cases with 154,000 deaths, more than any other country in the world by far.  In the world there are 18 million cases, with 689,000 deaths, averaging  6,000 deaths a day.  Clearly some Americans think they are too privileged to have to sacrifice for the health of others. With nerves already frayed, months of protest around the country for  human rights and against police brutality and racism continue to escalate.