It's Worth It!

It's Juneteenth, and it's being observed like no other time in our history. My heart is with and is for its observance, yet I'm preoccupied with a family member gravely ill a couple of thousand miles away.

Great-grandson Dimetrios was once again hospitalized. He's been on a ventilator until day before yesterday. Valerie and Tim returned to Utah to be with him and his family.

With Grandpa Tim. Valerie made the quilt for him.

Tim

Jeff.

Elijah and Kingston.

After extensive medical interventions all week, Dimetrios was able to be extubated and could breathe with bi-pap assistance. It was touch and go for him yesterday, followed by a better night last night. He came home in an ambulance this afternoon.

Dimetrios arriving home. 

This was the third pneumonia in eight months, plus some other bouts over time. His lungs are damaged--the right one badly. He'll be at home and Hospice will provide the extra care he and the family will need. The nursing staff will continue, as well.

He was excited to be home again and I'm sure they all appreciate getting out of the hospital setting into their familiar environment.

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This week, I made some more cloth masks. Our viral universe is going to be around for a good while. When I put on my mask, or wash hands, or disinfect I don't mind it a bit. If it thwarts even a few of those ravaging Coronavirus pathogens, it is worth it. If it prevents one more life gone or one more serious, damaging illness, it's worth it. The pneumonias that shut down Dimetrios' lungs and challenged his organs and body directly parallel what COVID-19 does to people's lungs, organs, bodies without mercy. Now over 120,000 of them dead just in our country, and nobody has a count of how many more who've survived with enormous damages.

My mask, it's worth it!

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From the Blog Desk: Flog Blogger!!! Rats. There is an upgrade going on and it's becoming a big mess to upload images and video. I'm back working in the old version so I'll include a couple more things that bounced my way during the past three pandemic months.

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