Friends and Fish

We have been blessed to have so many friends and family stop by while in San Diego to visit Daryl! For some reason the conversation all involved baseball . . . .

7/27 – Yount’s. Doug is a fraternity brother, who lives in Monterey. Brett is Daryl’s god son and Doug was  in our wedding. They stopped by to talk about old times when they lived in San Diego, their new adventures and the Padres. Well at least two subjects were up lifting.

7/29 – Ostoich clan. (Brent, Teresa, Connor and Madeleine) Teresa and I went o nursing school together and she was in our wedding, too.  They have been coming  to CA  on/off for the last 15 years and we try to coordinate a get together.  It is always great to see them and Teresa and I pick up where we left off, with lots of laughs! Brent is trying to convert Daryl to a Cubs fan, or at least have him not where the LA beanie. At least one of the Lu’s is a Cubs fan.  We  introduced them to  El Indio and next year, the plan is to introduce the “boys’ to Tommy’s and I think the “girls” will be dining on something different.  Vern Lu was the cat/dog ambassador. I know he is missing all the attention!

7/31 – Return of John Smale and with a special guest appearance of Jeff Chine.  J Snale was representing the SF Giants gear, which involved a trifecta bantering of dodgers, Padres and Giants.  Needless to say there were many PSK stories revisited. I will not expand on the stories or make any comments  to protect the innocent. Please feel free to get the recap from John or Jeff.

All of the visit  and the stories  bring  out that classic Daryl Lu smile  or other very expressive facial gestures. It gives us a break from our day-to-day battle with Mr C to have a few laughs!

We did see Dr  Kossman on Monday. He did confirm that things will get better before they get worse and gave us some examples of previous patients, He will do another scan sometime around treatment 7. He did increase Daryl’s Fentayl patch to help with he pain. The goal is to keep his base line pain controls with the patch and give the oxy for break thru. We felt very good about the visit!

We are still managing the pain,  g/j tube drainage and tumors.  Daryl has good and bad days and we never know till that day/hour. We appreciate your patience when we have to reschedule some of your visits. (Above picture) Daryl felt good enough to go sit outside for a little while with  nurse Vern Lu.

I am taking on many new tasks,  previously  were Daryl’s wheel house of responsiblity. one o the fish tank. For those of you who have not been to Casa de Lu, we have a large fresh water fish  tank. Daryl usually does maintenance in between  when Khoung come to service the tank.  Well, they water level was dropping in the tank and it needed some new water. In order to refill there is a process of adding ‘fish chemical” to “x” gallons of water, then  getting up on a chair and pouring the large bucket  of water into the tank. As a result of, being old and my eyes going, I frequently have my glasses on my head. Below  is what  happens when you wear your glass on your head a try to fill the fish tank . . . . . . new fish attraction. The glasses were retrieved by kitchen tongs and are back in their rightful place- on my head! . . . . .no fish or corral were harmed

Thank you for all your love and prayers! Daryl and Charlotte