Sunday Outing with Friends

It surely was nice to be able to sleep a little later this morning.  Not having to wake up at 6:00 and connect Lee's PICC line to the I.V. was a welcoming Sunday Morning!  Sunday has become our pancake breakfast day and we enjoyed our breakfast along with the Sunday paper.  My new friend, Gloria met me in the courtyard at 8:30 for coffee & conversation.  We have become the support team for each other as her husband also had a lung transplant three weeks after Lee had his.  Around 10:00, Lee and I injoyed the DVD from our church even though it is last week's service, we continue to enjoy seeing all our friends @ First Baptist, Lincolnton.  I really miss the choir and do hope I will be able to join them once again when we return home.

After lunch, Lee and I met with Gloria and Jerry and went to the Southpointe Mall.  Lee needed some long pants that would fit.  He has lost so much weight that everything is not only too big, they are also too long.  Whenever you loose as much weight as Lee has lost you don't have enough muscle and fat to hold the pants length up.  Interesting, huh?  He weighs 160 and is trying very hard to gain weight.  He is eating three meals a day and sometimes a snack.  The doctor wants him to eat six meals a day.  We have found that is very hard to do with the schedule he has to keep.  Since December he has lost 52 lbs. 

It was good to be able to go to the Mall.  Jerry and Lee parked on a bench.  Jerry was very faithful in wearing his mask................Lee said he felt like he was suffocating and removed his........oh well..........
Hopefully he will become more accustomed to wearing it whenever he is around crowds.  I tried to explain how I wore one every day whenever I worked in the operating room and that he would become accustom to it if he would leave it on long enough........................nope, to no avail.............................Would you say "stubborn"?!

This has been another great day!  It was such a joy to go for the longer ride and enjoy the company of friends.  Lee even gave up his Panther's game for the trip to the Mall.  Now that is another FIRST!

More Later.........................................Brenda