Saturday update - she's doing really well

David here again.

The last evening Dorothy was home, before all the hospital stuff, we were out on our deck. And she saw the balloons.  When we first moved into the house, we'd look for them every night, and take pictures. We have literally hundreds of pictures of balloons with the cascades in the background. And for her birthday one year, we went up in one, out of Woodinville. Here's her last picture the evening before all heck happens...

I also mentioned in an earlier post the thunder, lightning, and rain (and petrichor). From the Seattle Times:

More beauty here at the Seattle Times.

Saturday Dorothy made great strides in her recovery. She's "oot n aboot" the wing she is staying on, getting much walking time down. And she's had visitors. Yesterday, Stephanie (who I've not met yet, but is a kindred soul in cancer town), and today Kaji, Michelle, Stanley and Fumiko, Wendy, and myself. Please, don't hesitate, wondering about timing. At the hospital, visiting time is all the time, and the nurses will do their stuff visitors or not.

Just go.

When I saw her this evening, her room was redolent of flowers. I mean, really? Flowers? Why not BACON?

Oh, OK, she can't eat...

And the princess is doing really well. She had BROTH today! How awesome is that? And tonight, while I was there, she ordered dinner. More BROTH! Oh my!

Here she is. You can see she's looking quite healthy.

So, I left her to her broth, and movies on TV (Skyfall, and some recent Snow White one). I went to Central Market, and selected what I would have for dinner. No broth...

Yes, double cut veal chop with picatta sauce, a hash of fresh "just harvested" potatoes with some onion and Anaheim chile, and of course, corn on the cob.

Yum.