Way past time for an update I think it's Day 24+/- ?

So, Day Zero (0) was Oct. 17th, Halloween was day 14, so November 10th should be Day 24. The last time I wrote was about Day 13 to tell about the trials of getting out of the hosspital.  A lot has happened since then, which most people know about, but here is an update.

They did finally let me out and then on Friday Oct. 31, I picked Matt up from the airport so he could watch me for the weekend.  We had a good weekend together, I had to go to the clinic on Saturday to give blood and then I put Matt back on the plane and then went back to the room to get ready for the Monday and Tuesday appointments.

A quick word about the room.  If you have to use an extended stay hotel in the Salt Lake area, I would recommend the Candlewood Suites by the Salt Lake Airport, the rooms were nice, and clean and the staff was very helpful.

Monday's appointment was pretty un-eventful, they said hi, did what they needed and kicked me loose.  I wish I could say the same about Tuesday, from the time they took my tempurature it became a non typical appointment for anyone.  They sent me to get a scan of my neck since they thought I had a blood clot in my neck - they were right about that one.  So that brought on the prescription for the lovenox blood thinner that I now have to give myself by shot twice a day until New Years.  We won't even talk about the issues with COBRA insurance policies before you have an automatic payment set up.  So, the other big item that happened during that Tuesday was the removal of my central line.  I had to go through the whole set up for the removal, but it really took them less that 5 minutes in the operating room and I was back to the prep and recovery room for a few minutes before heading back up to the 8th floor and finally getting released so I could go pick up Russ from the airport as he had scheduled to come up for a couple of days.

As with Matt, I was very grateful for Russ coming up, and as it turns out very, very grateful that he could extend his stay a day to drive us home.  We had a good couple of days, on Wednesday, we went to Antelope Island State Park.  Neither of us had ever been there and we learned a lot about the Great Salt Lake and the Island.  We got to see a number of Bison as we drove along the east side of the island but never say any of the other 3 large mammals, Mule Deer, Big Horn Sheep or Antelope.  On Thursday we went up to the Park City area, I was hoping to show him the zip lines that they have, unfortunately, no one was using any of the facilities, but we were able to see all of them and it got him interested to see again sometime.

Friday morning we got up fairly early, packed the truck headed up to the hospital for my exit interview.  It must have gone OK, because by 9:30+/- we were heading down I-15 with our backs to downtown Salt Lake heading for the point of the mountain and southern utah.  We had a good trip and were able to stop in Parowan for a few minutes to see mom and dad before getting home mid afternoon on Friday.

That pretty much brings me up to date, thanks so much to everyone that helps, has helped, will help our family during these trying times - more on that later.  hope everyone is well and safe,  until next time.