Settling in at Home

It is all still kind of surreal, but we are home at last and beginning to settle back into a new routine.  Shirley's niece Souang and boyfriend Nic who stepped in to keep the house running during our long absence are going to continue to stay with us for the foreseeable future so that we have an extended support network.

The pets were very happy to see us.  Max, our oldest dog seems to be showing his age much more.  He is mostly deaf now and has a hard time getting up off the hardwood floors.  Molly, the little chihuahua mix seems to have trimmed down.  Grace, the baby cat is now almost as big as the older Yori.  The first night back they began sleeping curled up together in a bed beside the dogs, but by morning, Yori was back in his traditional spot-cradled in under Shirley's arm.

My folks printed up a big banner welcoming us home.  As we turned up the driveway Monday night, it was the first thing we saw.

Shirley will have a busy week with appointments with both her local doctors and personal care needs. Fingernails were done Tuesday and hair will be attended to today.  She will be seeing her local Pulmonologist and Primary Care Physician, as well as setting up physical therapy later this week.  I guess the focus on the nails and hair first can be racked up to having seen far too many doctors over the last six weeks with limited attention to personal grooming.  :)

We had a little scare last night, when her temperature spiked.  Good thing we are monitoring basic vital signs twice daily so we noticed it.  We called UW and spoke to the Transplant Fellow on call. We feared she would tell us to head to a local ER, but given that there were no other symptoms of concern, she told us to continue monitoring and report back if the fever persisted in the morning.  By 5:30 am, it was back down to 98.4, so we dodged a bullet.