I enjoyed three liquid meals today. Chicken both, beef broth and a little more chicken broth. Plus I had jello and a tasty Italian ice. Now you’d think that much broth would gag me, but…

Thank you everyone for your nice comments. As Doug and Izaak are lucid and able, they are reading some of your nice words. Because of Doug’s immunosuppressant medication, his room has to be very sterile,…

Annie, Izaak’s girlfriend, left to return to her mission trip in Leslie county, Kentucky. For two weeks several hundred people are in Leslie county repairing roofs and making other structural improvements. Tonight is the big…

Both are up and about! Izaak is off of the morphine–quit cold turkey.  He is still in a fair amount of pain.  When they conduct the laproscopic surgery they filled him full of gas to…

Izaak’s girlfriend (as of this morning), Annie, had planned a mission trip to Kentucky months ago.  She decided to go on the trip and come back on Friday to see Izaak.  As a surprise, she…