RELEASE from the Hospital!

On Sunday July 5th Nadine was released from the hospital! Erek returned home to DC the next day. The end of an era.

I gave Nadine her clot-medicine injection under cheery nurse Heather's watchful eye. There were prescriptions, discharge papers and care instructions. Dr. Milner gave Nadine a final check and approved the discharge. I was still concerned about the clot, and in all the rush I felt bewildered, but I somehow stumbled through the discharge routine without delaying it further. We packed the stuff, of which there was mercifully little. And then we left!!

We were OUT!! Erek, Nadine, Barry and I went to MacDonald House together, whee they sat on the couch and visited.

After Barry left, Erek and Nadine continued work on the monstrous 3-D Empire State Building puzzle that they'd started a few days earlier. I couldn't get a single piece in, but they got rows and slabs and added new layers to the very tall building.

Erek and Nadine were having a fine time with the puzzle and I went to bed. At first I told Nadine she should go to bed early. Then I remembered it was her first night "free" and also her last night with Erek, who was returning to DC the next day. This would end another era.

SO -- I changed my mind and told Nadine to go to bed whenever she wanted. She smiled.

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