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Ok, so we haven't posted in a while. On one hand that's been because there hasn't been a whole lot of news to report, but on the other hand I've gotten a bit lazy.

Today's news is that Dad has found an apartment that will be suitable so that when Mom comes home it will be to a different home. The apartment is a two bedroom with a dishwasher, washer and dryer, and fireplace and is located Along EP True in West Des Moines. Dad says it is between the Hy-Vee and the rugby fields, I can't quite visualize it but I know the area. Hopefully Dad gets in gear, because he said that he is going to plan on moving the weekend of the 13th. We will help, of course, but if he's not all packed up it could be a long day.

We saw Mom this weekend for the first time since she has had the trach tube completely out. She sounded pretty good, but you could here some wind coming out of the still healing trach cut. She said that the doctors expected that to heal up completely in the next couple of days. Mom is up and around much more these days. She goes to a cafeteria on the rehab floor for her meals and does lots of physical therapy. It exhausts her, and she doesn't like it to much because it's so hard. I think she spends about 3 or 4 hours a day working with the various people. When we were there she told that she had actually walked the length of the rehab parallel bars last Friday. She was pretty excited about that. Today Dad said that they had her walking a bit with a walker and the doctors said that she is doing well enough that the current plan is to release her 3 weeks from today.

Mom has been enjoying her time at Mercy Capitol a lot I think. She likes that it is close to her work and because of that she has had a lot of visitors, which at times has been tiring for her (she said thirteen of you stopped by one day), but she certainly enjoys seeing all of you. Mom is still receiving lots of cards too, so thanks to everybody for stopping by and for sending your cards. We all appreciate your kindness so much.

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On another note, I saw the official police report this weekend and one thing that stood out to me was the type of trailer that hit Mom. I had in my mind that is was one that would be used to haul gravel and such, but it was actually a flat-bed trailer, one that would be used to haul machinery. Just thought I would give that a mention.