Day Seventy Three

9:22 PM Saturday Feb. 14th

Don woke early but didn't get up until about 8:00. Kristi surprised all of us. She went to the grocery store and bought breakfast items and came to our house and cooked all of us breakfast. She made hashbrowns, eggs, biscuits, & bacon. It was wonderful! We decided to go to the flea market to get Don a new cell phone for his b-day/Valentine's day since his was damaged in the accident. Taylor came over a little after 9:00 and I began to get Don dressed and that was something. I had never gotten him totally dressed all by my self except at night and there is much less to do. I was pretty tired by the time we were finished and still had to get myself dressed. Everyone was waiting on me because we were supposed to leave at 10:00 but I didn't even get started on myself until 9:45. Don had Kristi go out and get his wheelchair and she helped him to the car. He put himself in the car and we all left about 10:30. We got to the flea market and Don got himself out of the car and into his wheelchair. Donnie Lee pushed his dad most of the time in the wheelchair. We got Don his new phone and checked out a few other items. We left the flea market about 12:30 and Donnie Lee and Taylor headed back home because Donnie Lee had to be at work at 2:00 today. Kristi, Don and I went to Wal-Mart to pick up his medicine and get a few grocery items. We finally got back home about 2:00 and our neighbors came over with a home cooked meal. We are so thankful for that! As most of you know Don is the cook in our family and with a few exceptions it has been a long time since we have had a home cooked meal. We will have the meal for lunch tomorrow. We are all excited about it. We just rested the remainder of the evening and our friend that built the ramp came by to check out Don's recliner for some measurements. He is going to build a platform for the chair to sit on to make it higher and hopefully easier for Don to get in and out of his recliner. Don sat in his wheelchair all afternoon and evening as it is easier for him to get up and down from it. Our friend called about 8:30 to say that he had the platform built and would bring it by tomorrow afternoon. I got Don undressed and ready for bed about 8:00 and he headed to the spare bedroom about 9:30 to go to bed. Please pray that he rests better tonight!