Roger Cleveland was taken to the hospital with pneumonia. He refused IV and nebulizer treatment, so was returned to the nursing home where they put him on oral antibiotics. We can’t tell if he’s getting better or worse since then. When we visit he’s usually asleep and since he’s completely deaf now, it’s hard to visit with him. But the nurses tell us that he gets up, gets into his wheelchair, and they see him out in the halls sometimes. So.. it’s hard to know how he is really doing. Here’s Patty Maki trying to encourage him to take a nebulizer treatment… which he’ll take for less than a minute. The second picture is of Clinton Goff and Kathy. Clinton sleeps except for meals, has no idea about the present, but can discuss the past, and has a big appetite!
Teresa Goff fell in the nursing home and broke her hip. She had surgery, and seems to be recovering. She claims that she can walk when they give her PT… we haven’t seen that yet. Raymod Reece seems happy in the nursing home. We had thought we would try to move him from this VA nursing facility to the same one in Conroe where Roger and Teresa are, but he seems settled, and has quite a few visitors, so maybe it’s better to leave him there (an hour away from PG). He only walks during PT, but makes it clear he doesn’t really expect to be able to walk again on his own. Here’s a picture of him with Kathy, Alice, Jack and John. The second picture is of a new employee at PG, Penny, with Salena.
Roger and Marian Fryer are staying near here for about a month, trying to escape the Wisconson winter. Marian is a niece of Alice. Their son Vance came from California for a visit. The first picture is of Vance, Marian and Roger. The second is of Virginia and Tom Bradshaw from Alberta, who came to visit their fellow Canadian, Fern. Tom’s relatives met the gospel in Ontario at the same time as Fern’s mother.
Other visitors include Kory, Teresa, Ryan and Lily Overby, Wray Paul and Sue Sluder (to be married in January), and Britt and Eva Booth.
The Spunagle / Willhoite clan from Redbud Canyon came through on their yearly vacation. They loaded Marybelle on the Redbud bus for a photo. Marybelle came from Redbud to PG one year ago. Kathy’s sister Pat Johnson visited from Iowa, shown here with our workers, Emma and Rachel.
Dawn Overby’s brother Kelly and family visited. The first picture shows Dawn and Wayne Overby, Jodi and Cory Kelley and daughter Payton, Kelly and Marlene Olson with Alice. The second is 3 of Ty and Amy Nordic’s kids who are here for the holidays, Slade, Shanaye and Stetson. The third is Magaret and Gerry Gunderson with Elton and Fern.
We’ve already had a cold winter… compared to our normal. It snowed! Unusual for here. Unfortunately the stump of our eagle is rotten… not sure how long we can save it.
It’s supposed to get down to 16 F tomorrow (New Years)! When we moved to Texas in 1985 there were bumper stickers that said, “Drive a gas guzzler, freeze a yankee!” We moved here from Massachusetts! 🙂
Y’all keep warm!
Ken
