Weekend Recap

On Thursday, July 16th Rachel had about a 3 hour appointment with Neuropsychologist. She has seen these doctors before and really likes them. In the afternoon we met with Care Partners which is a volunteer program that provides support for children and adult bone marrow transplant patients. They have family volunteers which act as a best friend...someone that might support you like a friend would even though you are far from home. They also have unit volunteers that will be working on that floor of the hospital. They can play games or come in and sit with the patient while the caregiver takes a break. Sounds like a good program and they have been doing this at this hospital for 25 yrs. We also found out that you can't use cell phones in these particular hospital rooms (something to do with the equipment.) We can use computers but they said the Internet connection in these rooms aren't very good.

Friday we didn't have any appointments so we slept in and then did some cleaning around the condo. Later we took a trip to Walmart...of course. :) In celebration of Rachel's birthday, which is on transplant day (Aug. 7), we ate at Chili's. On Saturday we went to Mall of America. We walked around until we were beat and then headed back to the condo. We have been going to a coffee shop on most days to use the wireless Internet connection there since my phone seems to be having trouble here. Now it appears we do have connection at the condo through my phone so we are happy about that.

On Sunday we visited a nice local church that has been in touch with us. They are a very friendly group and we enjoyed a good time of worship with them. Our neighbors go to the same church and invited us to lunch. That was a great time of fellowship. Since Rachel will be admitted to the hospital on Sunday, this was pretty much our last free weekend for a while so we tried to have some fun and I think we succeeded. Here are some pictures from the Mall of America.