Marian will be coming home tomorrow afternoon. We'll all be learning things as she adjusts to these once familiar and now new surroundings. Their apartment wasn't really designed for someone with limited mobility, so we'll have to improvise, but carefully.

As I've mentioned before, when we are in need of health care, our lives are much more open to many more people. We've had conversations with MRM's doctors, nurses, physical therapists, case workers, and others. I guess that it's true anytime that you need help, but it seems more so in times of medical need. Pregnant women experience this a lot. We are familiar with more intimate details than we have any right to know because child-bearing is such a public event. When we are caring for our parents, we wind up talking about things that may be new areas of discussion. This has been true for me as well. Recently I talked candidly with daughter-in-law Jennie, a physcian's assistant, about my current roster of medications, their benefits, and their side effects. It's good that we can trust those close to us because it lets them help us and love us better.