Bill, Tuesday August 27: Fifty Days

First: super happy thankful shout-out to cousin Kimberly Gomez and "The Boy" (Jacob) for helping with apartment cleaning/packing today. She took on a grungy clean-up job, saving me several hours of tackling it later. Jacob helped me load up the hide-a-bed for the dump, and later loaded the big-old desk for Goodwill.  They just moved, too. Kimmy: I can't begin to tell you, again, how much I appreciate your help.

Remember two days ago when Brooke wrote about seeing Bill's first 'real' food - it was pureed, ergo the quotes around 'real.'  Well, today Bill got real-real food. Dinner included a chicken salad sandwich, with stuff between two real pieces of bread. And some hash browns (that just seems weird, but there it was), soup, melon.  His first grab was for the milk. "Delicious," he says, in a very strong voice. Hmm, I will ask him if I can record it to put a little sound clip in the next post, okay?

They also had a visit from alpacas today. (Sorry I missed it, but that was about the time I was tipping the hide-a-bed out of the truck at the waste transfer station.)  Bill and Ayn said if they ever renew their vows, there will be alpacas and/or llamas involved.

The therapists continue to be impressed by Bill's progress, "He's a different man than we met two weeks ago."  

Part of Bill's routine includes tuning in to watch Jeopardy every evening.

Fifty days. Life is good. Give a hug to those you love. Heck, while you're at it, hug the ones you don't love!