Outta there

As each day winds down, I look forward to what the next day will bring.
Today is the day that my brother gets released from the Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. It all started on Monday morning, what a ride its been over this week. A full range of emotions, anxiety all mixed together. Now my bursitis is back and my right knee is stiff. So if that the worse of it I'm doing pretty good. Jay goes home tomorrow morning, a flight from Denver to San Jose, Costa Rica. He'll be in loving arms by 2:15 tomorrow afternoon. Its been great to spend time with my brother, I know he can't wait to get home.
I feel the same, I get to restart my trip west tomorrow afternoon, my goal is to cross the rockies. After that Utah, then on to California. My route is about 1278 miles. It should take me two days, my goal is to be at the house on Sunday evening. We'll see how that turns out. JG

Road to recovery

What a difference a day makes, we got to the Critical Care Unit at Denver's Swedish Medical Center to find my brother awake, talking and realizing that he is in the hospital. Most of you won't ever know my brother but he is one of the most creative artists around. I don't even know where to start but to say I am relieved, he made it through a tough emergency visit to the critical care unit. It came on gradually and fast together. I didn't read into his symptoms early enough  and could have prevented some of this, if I could do it over... Jay lives. That's the most important thing and soon he will be home in his beloved Costa Rica and I know the country will embrace him and take care of him just like the good people of Denver have.

Once again something came up and we tackled it head on and prevailed. For many of us, we will never know when, where, how or why, just move beyond yourself and reach out and get the job done.
JG

Prayers for my awesome brother

It all started out with Jay arriving at New York LaGuardia, I found him waiting for me at the curb. It is always a great day to see my brother and I knew that we would get to spend a few weeks together in Bridgewater as we cleaned out mom and dads house. As it turned out it was a lot of work and we managed to get it all done. We never had any disagreements and we got it done and were ready to leave to take mom and dads stuff home to California. This past Friday, we had done all the heavywork and manage to hit the road around 10 am. We drove all day and made it to Ohio. Day two we got up early and left Ohio and made it to Illinois. Day three was the tough one and I started out driving. I found we were stopping more often than usual as Jay needed to relieve himself more than what I thought was norma. Anyway, at some point along the way, I realized that Jay wasn't %100, so I took over driving with a destination of Mike Troppman's house in Roxborough Village. I managed drive most of the 800 miles to get us to our destination and when we got there Jay was wiped out.
He went right to bed and I figured that it would pass and in the morning he would be ok, that was my first mistake. He wasn't better, he was much much worse. We managed to get him out of bed and to the emergency room. The Doctor on call did a great job and the next thing we know he was in the Intensive Care Unit at the Swedish Medical Center in Denver. The told me that typically anyone with blood sugar over 1000, should have died. Jay managed to get through that especially tough part and his levels are now under 400. They don't know what caused this and will get to the bottom of it in the next few days. Lesson here is don't wait when your loved ones are really sick, if in doubt bring them to the professionals and those few minutes could save their lives.