After two and a half weeks of waiting, Lou finally had an appointment with the doctor who did his surgery.  The first step was to see if Lou could pass urine on his own. So a urology nurse removed Lou’s catheter, and he had to wait to see if he could go. I was sitting in […]

This morning, I went for the same walk that I’ve been going on every day for the past couple of weeks.  It’s a six-mile walk down a nice biking trail that has lovely benches and play parks peppered along the way. Pretty much every day, I’ve seen the same young man sitting on the same […]

When we got back to Dallas, I was having some second thoughts about our decision to disregard the doctor’s concerns about traveling so soon. I’m not sure if it was the flight or the fact that Lou had only just had his catheter removed, but something was causing Lou to bleed. A lot. So we […]