Happy New Year??!! A big yes...

  Some might call this past three weeks a creeping catastrophe (definitely not a long drought) in Tom's case. It's pretty obvious that what we all want is for him to get better, as Bishop Whiting said on Sunday night,  but it takes time for the body to heal and in the meantime his incisions are pretty well there and he's a few days out from having the cath withdrawn. Dr. Willis and Dr. Foot, urologists with Dr. Bob Stephenson dropped by and explained the suction on the cath and putting the other gravity drain back on after seeing today's CT scan that shows less fluid below the bladder, which has less in it than Sun. and Mon. and there is a granularization process with tissue as it heals that takes time. One of the other patients we have visited with has been in longer than Tom. She has had her whole throat and mouth rebuilt because of cancer. They can shave off skin and muscle tissue from a leg and refashion it into all that's necessary for her throat. Pretty spectacular sculpting! Everywhere I turn, I see others whose place I wouldn't want to be in. We continue to appreciate your prayers----Love, Ruth Ann