2/24/14 - Since last post, I have extended my stay in Cleveland until 3/26/14 because healing of the femur is a little slow and I will feel much better leaving her alone at that time.  Aunt Esther has an appt with the orthopedist on March 7th and then we will learn a little more.  It will give us a couple of more weeks for some physical therapy before she will be on her own.  Our biggest thing is to get her ready to drive since it is her right leg.  We have learned how to get the wheelchair in the back seat so have been able to go out and run errands.  We also got her a temporary handicap sticker for the car so she won't have to walk very far when she is by herself.  We finally got a break with the weather last week and even had 50 degrees one night.  I actually felt I was living on a different planet one evening because it was in the high 30's in early afternoon and when the sun went down it was in the mid 40's and then around 11:00pm it hit 51 degrees!!  The temperature went down as it progress to morning.  I had never been somewhere that got warmer after the sun went down!!

Last Friday when we got home, it had gotten warm enough to melt snow and ice and since the back door was not shoveled, she had snow and ice up to her door and we ended with about an inch of water coming in under her door.  I did a lot of mopping, call maintenance to clear the drain and get the ice out of there but he did not do a very good job and I had a lot of water to mop up plus lots of towels that were soaking wet with ice water.  In the morning, her son came over and cleaned it all up for me, we put salt down and so I will keep on top of it for now.

Otherwise, not much as been happening here.  Today we went to Costco and I got an eye exam to learn that in about 15 years I probably will have cataracts to deal with but otherwise my eyes are fairly healthy.  I will get my new glasses in about 10 days.

It snowed a little this morning but has been clear this afternoon but we are expecting snow again this evening.