Back Home Safe

We completed the fifth of five radiation treatments today, and I got a lot of help with Physical Therapy. I am still very unsteady on my feet, and need escort up and down stairs. However, I expect to sleep well on my bed on the second floor, and have sorted all my new medications for the next week's plan.

There will be more attention to come as I have a number of follow up visits, and need my catheter removed. There will be an in-home physical therapist to help me work back some strength.

Additionally, we'll be making some modifications to the house to make it more cripple friendly, such as strong hand rails, and bath tub seats.

Also, I have used my givmohr sling a great deal more this week, and I think it has helped my shoulder quite a bit making this typing easier. Hopefully it will mean more blog postings.

Thanks for all the kind visits and phone calls this week. It helped a lot. I also had a visit in hospital from my boss at Heartland Payment systems and I verbally announced my intention of not going back to work from this date on. He's going to help me get every benefit still due me from short and long term disability, and I hope to hear from Social Security soon.

In addition to this being due to disability, I'm still at the point where I am training to maintain the software. I still have a couple of good months of hard work left to do before I begin to become productive.  Therefore any salary towards me will be a bad investment on Heartland's part because as my life expectancy is shorter, the opportunity for Heartland to recover its investment in me diminishes.  This is hard for me to feel good about my work. So I have to quit and enjoy what's left.

Also, Fr. Reid indicated that St. Anne's will be able to offer some help in making this transition. So overall, I can't really be in better spirits.

Pax Vobiscum