OUR ROUTINE

Wow!  100 degrees in the shade in Durham!  We are back to our schedule with free mornings and afternoons from 12-5:00 filled with time travel to the Center For Living and for Lee's time there for rehab.  An example of the day looks like this:
12:00.....................leave for the drive for Center for Living  (3.9 miles)
                              Lee stays in car on his oxygen @ 15-30 Liters while I retrieve oxygen from the learning center along with the rolator (lLee walks on 30L)
                             We exchange our oxygen for the one I brought out and Lee walks into the center with the rolator.  I follow alongside with our oxygen.
                             Once inside, Lee uses his card with the barcode and he proceeds to the meeting area.  I leave.
While Lee is there his exercise program begins promptly @ 12:30 after a short meeting with the physical therapists.  He is required to do a specified number of minutes on the following:
                  1.  Floor exercises
                  2.  Upper extremities weights
                  3.  Lower extremities weights
                  4.  Stair steps
                  5.  Bicycle
                  6.  Walking around the track
He is expected to accomplish these with only a short break or none at all between.
Lee completes his sessions @ 3:30 and goes into the classroom.  He will sit in the classroom until 4:30.  Today's session is on Stress.
I will pick him up at the end of this class, take him to the car while he waits with their oxygen and I go to retrieve ours.  After we exchange, I return oxygen to Living Center then meet Lee at the car or shuttle and we return to the condo.
As you can  imagine, Lee is exhausted by the end of the day and must rest as soon as we return.  We do welcome week-ends for the respite.
Just thought you might want to know all he has to do and how everything requires very high volumes of oxygen.  This requires at least 30-50 Liters of oxygen!
I have been driving him to & from since we are on the list and also because it is so very hot here.  The shuttle bus is very hot and sometimes makes many stops along the way.  This causes some anxiety about our status on the amount of oxygen needed on the trip and that is eliminated when I drive.
This afternoon, my nephew Ivan, wife Susan and kids are dropping by on their way to Raleigh.  I invited them for Ice Cream, went to Krogers and became so busy with a new place to shop that I bought too much.  While unpacking my treasures, I realized I had forgotten the main purpose of my trip.....ICE CREAM!
Oh Well..................................More Later..........................Brenda