Back home

Hi everybody - Tony here. We're all sitting in the family room right now watching some tennis, relaxing. Just before this, we all went outside to hang with the neighbors for a while for Halloween, catching up with each other and getting visits now and then from many boldly dressed but soft-spoken neighborhood kids.

We left the hospital to fly home around noon today, after meeting with both our nurse practitioner and Dr. McDermott. As always, Dad was diligently coordinating between Boston and Cincinnati to find the quickest and most expedient way to get along with treatment, which was no easy task considering all the strain we were under today and yesterday.

At this point it has to be said that the people at Beth Israel Deconess were all excellent - attentive, professional, compassionate ready with answers and always ready to help. And although we didn't leave in the best of circumstances, at least we feel like we've gotten the best help we can get, and thankfully Mom is returning in better condition than when she left on Sunday.

The flight was blessedly uneventful, and we arrived in Cincinnati greeted by Andrea's warm and loving smile. We all hugged and then were out and on our way back home, sweet home. Now we'll all be home together till Sunday.

On Friday we meet again with the doctors, and in the meantime we'll all work on getting Mom to move from smooth to more solid foods. Her appetite has been improving daily since we started in Boston, so we're hoping this keeps up on an upward trend. Thank you Wan, Mom enjoyed your ice cream tonight.

Thanks everybody for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. Talk to you again soon.

Much love,

LJA&T