Dad is finally home

Dad was finally discharged from Mayo Hospital last Friday, 3/1/13. He was so happy to get out of the hospital. He said he was so tired of someone coming in every two hours to take blood. He was becoming concerned that he wouldn't have any blood left if he didn't get out soon. :0)
He seems to be doing OK, although he is very weak and tired, but he is very content sitting in his lazy boy chair in the living room watching TV. Tamie has to help him get in and out of bed, and his appetite is improving now that he is eating good home cooking instead of hospital food. Must admit though, Mayo's food was really good.

Dad has a mass in his right lung that seems to be growing rapidly, however, he also has an infection on top of the mass that prevented Mayo from doing a biopsy to see if the mass is cancer and if so what kind. Unfortunately because they were not able to do the biopsy, dad is not able to do chemo or radiation.
Tamie is taking care of dad at home and we also have Hospice involved in his care as well. Hospice took care of mom before she died and we have nothing but praise for these nurses and doctors. We know that dad is in very good hands with Hospice, and a nurse will be coming out 3 times a week to check on dad, bath him, give him any medications above and beyond his normal medications, and do assessments on his health for the doctor assigned to dad.

Izabella turns 2 on July 15, 2013

Wow, Time is going by so fast. I can't believe how fast she is growing.

Izabella turns 1 year old July 15th

It's hard to believe that it has been a year already.  She is growing fast and getting prettier each day.

Last night in San Diego...

It's Saturday night and our last night in San Diego, so we decided to go out for a few drinks. It was so sad knowing that we had to go home, back to the 100+ heat in Phoenix.

Electricity producing windmills

At one point on our way to the coast, we ran into a section covered in electricity producing windmills. These were breath taking to see. There were thousands of them everywhere, on both sides of the highway. I have seen a section here in northern Arizona that had maybe 20 or so, but there must have been thousands...

San Diego and the beach

After the USS Midway tour, we went back to our hotel room and walked around the beach area just taking in the sights. The next morning we decided to move to the Best Western hotel that was across the parking lot from our hotel because it had a better view of the beach and the boardwalk. We spent the remainder of our time at this hotel, which turned out to be a wonderful room. It was so nice to be able to leave the arcadia door open so that we could hear the sound of the waves crashing on the shore, oh how I love that sound. We also rented bikes, which is not quite my idea of fun, since I am not that coordinated nor am I balanced. Nevertheless, we rode those bikes for about 4 hours; going from one end of the boardwalk to the other end, which we figured, was about 4 miles one way.

Here are some pictures of us enjoying the beach.

 

USS Midway tour

The next morning, we reluctantly left that beautiful room and headed to San Diego. Did I mention we made no reservations at any hotel? We were thinking we might stop for the night somewhere along the way, but ended up driving all the way to San Diego instead.

Once we got to San Diego, we got a room next to the beach, dropped our bags in the room, and headed to the USS Midway Museum. They have turned the actual ship into a museum with self-guided tours. The tour also included going up into the area where the captain commands the ship. There were many stairs and walking, we got a lot of exercise.

These photos are from the deck, and as well as from the parking lot looking at the ship. It was an awesome tour.