Trekking to Columbia

We made our trip to Rusk today. It was a pretty nice visit, although it always seems a bit short compared to the about of driving you do. We went to lunch at the Mexican restaurant just down the street from Rusk. It isn't the most accessible of places, but we got a nice blue parking space next to the door. We reminisced about going there before and having to get the wheelchair in and out of the place.

Pretty much all of the therapists Linda wanted to see were at Rusk today. Her 4 main therapists were all there, and we ran into many of the others too. We didn't catch all of the nurses, especially the evening nurses who hadn't come on shift yet.

I popped into the little computer room they have and checked out the computer. It didn't run at all when we were there, so I put Linux on it before we left. I like to check every month or two to see that it still works (it does). Today I updated the web browser on it, because everyone always likes to have new stuff. I left Linda in the gym where she could visit (without being interrupted by me).

After Rusk, we went to Boone. We didn't run into quite as many people we knew there, and there wasn't a lot of time, so we didn't page anyone. Linda walked from the parking lot to the NeuroScience ICU, then from there to the floor where her room had been. If you don't remember, that's a pretty long way, and it came after we walked all around Rusk. The nurses were particularly impressed by that little feat.

Linda demo'd a bit of walking for the nurses and chatted with them some. Told them she was doing well, and all. Then we borrowed a wheelchair to go downstairs and headed for home--after getting coffee at the Lakota coffee bar in the lobby. It seemed like that place was never open when Linda was patient, so I never got coffee then.