News from the 505

Check me out in all my hospital glory, complete with my Angry Birds pj shorts. They match my cool yellow socks the hospital gave me (not visible above). This is to let you in on what you are missing if you can't visit. Tempting, huh.

I awoke this morning to the slightly depressing news that my blood factor had actually gone DOWN instead of up, from a 1.1 to a 1.0. It doesn't sound like much, but apparently it's a virtual crawl from here to the desired 2.0 figure, so every tenth counts a lot. The next step today was to increase my Coumadin dosage from 5.0 to 7.5, from the peach pill to the yellow one (you Coumadin vets will recognize the lingo).

The other distressing news was that I will get to enjoy a few more days in the "North Hills hotel" as my blood inches toward the desired consistency. That translates schedule-wise into not being able to help coach Brishen's first flag football game tomorrow morning, not being in my normal hosting spot on Sunday at church, and finally, the biggest downer, maybe having to postpone our trip to Michigan on Tuesday. We have flight reservations to go see our son, Charlton, and his family for a week. It will be a total bummer if we have to miss that trip.

So, a few more items for your prayer list, if you care to add them. So...

Prayers up!