Stickers on our arms..

Dear Family and Friends,
When Keanna comes to visit she finds her stickers and before she leaves she places a sticker or two on each of our arms, tonight she could not reach Grammy's arms and she was asleep so she put them on the arm of the chair. Those stickers show up for days afterwards and every one brings back a moment of joy, a moment when little angel cared enough to spread her brand of fun and life with all those around her. Thank you Keanna for being so sweet and loving.
Tomorrow Dana and I will leave the house at 10:30 to attend a grandparents day at Keanna's school in Brentwood. She will join her classmates and sing songs including signing, she will make crafts with us and she will then get to come home with us. She is so excited and I'll admit we are pretty excited too. As usual I have some work conflicts but they will have to be put aside so can keep this important appointment with Keanna.
Marilyn has been by Nan's side all day today and it is a day that started pretty well. When Nan woke this morning she and I talked about things for awhile. It was only 63 in the room and when the furnace would not start she pointed to the wood stove and said, why not that? So I gathered a few pieces of wood and some trash and we had a little fire which took the chill off the room. We got her moved to the chair and then I had to leave for a long trip to Madera to see a very nice home, then back the same long trip to arrive home at 5:10. Nan had a hard time sleeping but has rested some over the past couple hours. She took her pills at 8:15 and then is getting ready to move back to the bed for the night. The drainage from the fistula is much less now and has much less odor which to me suggests we had some infection going there.
This morning Lisa from Critical Care called to let me know results of the blood work. Hemoglobin is holding steady again, creatins are also holding steady, white count is 11.4 same as last week too. This evening the shipment of 4 boxes of supplies arrived and are now all put away. We have several days worth of the antibiotic to put in every 48 hours. Tomorrow afternoon we will do the next treatment.
We are so thrilled that Jason and Jo are coming tomorrow evening or afternoon. We have given them the master suite since we don't use it and Dana has it all ready for them. Clean new sheets just out of the bag. It will wonderful to get to see them again and to catch up with baby Timothy again and see all his new behaviors.
I'm very tired this evening and I do plan to go to bed early.
Nan is preparing mentally for the trip to bed where she will rest easy for the night, we hope. Her pain level is much less now and her mental clarity is pretty good now as well. Mostly she just feels tired, very tired these days.
Please keep Nan in your prayers and pray that the tumors might be reduced and that she might find new strength and joy.
We send our love,

Tim and Nan and Dana and Marilyn