We got a huge stoke of LUCK. Ike was good to us...no damage ....electricity restored after only 10 hours of outage. There was a good breeze so we opened the front and back doors and windows and cooled off.

Lori and Greg were not as lucky. Lori has 6 pine trees down in her back yard and 3 down in the front yard. Her husband Vic did a great job of parking the 2 trucks, 1 car, 1 horse trailer and the tractor and they lost none of those. They are staying with us as they do not have power or water. Greg lives only 1/2 mile away and he has no power as of Monday. He and his family are staying with his wife's family but visit daily.

I guess we should have bought a bigger house. Who knew !

Today Bill has an appointment at 1:30 with his first therapist. It is occupational therapy. We are anxsiously awaiting the physical therapist phone call to get that started again. We have some ground to reclaim. The left leg and foot are getting weak.

He had a really good day yesterday. He was up in the wheelchair all day. He transferred three or four times. He sat in a chair in the den for about 2 hours which is a first. He stood by the kitchen sink a couple of times to bear weight on the legs.

One of the therapist from New Orleans had suggested that....I was afraid to try it alone. But it is fairly easy with two people. We roll the wheelchair up...lock it....Bill puts his hands on the sink and comes to standing with one of us on either side to help...it is moderate help at this point. When he is tired he just sits down to take a rest and we start over again.

But we are ready for some walking on the walker type stuff. I can't hold him up for that by myself and think we need the pros for that awhile longer.

I will keep you posted>>>>>>>>>>>>>>