Heart shaped pizza

July 22, 2017

I promised you a catch-up blog, I hope I can stay awake for it.  It is hard keeping up with 80 year old's!  We just got back from celebrating my Sister and Brother-in-law's 22 Wedding anniversary with a heart shaped Pizza and salad at Dave's Pizza (Very Good) and stopped to get a McDonalds ice cream cone, on the way home.

Before we went out to dinner, we stopped by to see an old friend, who had had a stroke.  He was in a nursing home and the last we heard, he was paralyzed on his leftt side, couldn't talk, swallow or feed himself.   He is in his late nineties and my Mother "adopted", he and his wife when they first came to America from Switzerland and Gernany, shortly after WWII, so we are like family.  They had three children, who now have children.  When we first stopped, he was in the cafeteria eating, so we didn't see him or stay as his wife was not there.  We made a stop at the store and thought about coming back another day.

 After we went to the store, my Sister suggested we just go by, give him a little love and I should say a prayer, then we could leave.  When we returned, we saw his wife and son outside waiting for the nursing staff to prepare him for bed.  We had a nice visit with them while we waited and I hadn't seen their son since he was about 10 or 12 years old and he was in his 50's.  When we got to his room, we were so pleasantly surprised.  He recognized each one of us and talked, asking about where I was living now, and also asking my Brother-in-law's name. 

They had given him his evening med's and he was beginning to wind down, but not before he sang us a concert!  He sang very articulately, German hymns that he knew from his childhood.  He sang about Jesus,  God's love and going home to heaven.  He sang loudly, all the while waving his right arm in the air, like he was leading singing.  It was such a blessing to see how much he had improved and how well he was doing and he wasn't ashamed to praise the Lord!  When he had finished several songs, all six of us, joined hands and I prayed.  It was such an uplifting visit. His wife told us that he sings a lot in German and is feeding himself and can carry on conversations.

Well, this is it for tonight, I will try to catch you up on our wonderful trip to the coast later.  I plan to leave tomorrow for Bend, Oregon to deliver the nursing rocker to my Nephew and his new wife.