Sergio Leone at Kaiser Hospital

It seems appropriate to touch on this topic since we’ve been enmeshed in the health-care system since Valentine’s Day:

Follow-up to my earlier entries Health Insurance and Iraq and How We Ration Doctor Visits:
“A majority of Americans say the federal government should guarantee health insurance to everyone, especially children, and are willing to pay higher taxes to do it, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.”
--The New York Times, today.

True truism of the week:
“Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.”

Merrie continues to do well. We are both well settled into her new room--the sixth since she arrived. She ate all her lunch and it tasted good to her. She’d worked up an appetite by taking two laps around the nurses’ station with a walker this morning. She walked again in the afternoon and once again in the evening. Those who know Merrie know there is a bigger risk of her attempting too much than too little. But with the help of the nurses she’s doing a great job of pacing herself.

There’s a small cha-cha (remember: two steps forward, one step back) in that she has developed a low-grade infection which the doctors are trying to identify and treat. Because of this, we will be leaving the hospital no earlier than Monday. While we know this is the best course, we had hoped for earlier.

The afternoon brought a refreshing, long nap for her, and a short one for me. Sleeping is sometimes interrupted by the phone at the nurses’ station, which has a ring like a fast version of the first few bars of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

Sleep, good food and a walk are all mighty wonderful things.