Caracas, Venezuela
Temple #96
I had such fun with Rita today at lunch. We went to Cafe Rio which is her favorite place to have lunch. Rita weighs 102 lbs. She ordered a small salad, no beans, rice, or tortilla, grilled chicken, extra lettuce and cheese, with the creamy dressing. Rita does Keto and inter-mitten fasting. She eats from 6-12 and eats mainly chicken as her meat. Rita is a people person. She has been a widow for six years. Somehow she has connected with Gene Cook, who is a widower. She says she talked on the phone with him the other day for 2 1/2 hours. Her heart loves Gene, but her head knows it would not work. He is not a member of the Church and he drinks and says he is not going to stop for a woman. He said he would take her to the temple and wait for her outside. That is not what she wants.
Rita's son, Rick is in their stake presidency. When I told Jared, because he knew Jared in Texas, Jared said: "I'm not surprised, Rick is a good guy."
Some other random facts about Rita:
She loves Jared Halverson and listens to "Unshaken" every week.
Bill, her husband, left her an amazing wood pile. She sold it for $5,000. Bill also gave her a handicapped sticker for her car one year for Valentine's day.
Rita says she loved what she felt in Grace Whipple and Clea Adams' homes and knew she wanted that feeling in her own home when she got married and had children. I told her how I went to church on my own and thought: I want my family to go to church with me like everyone else and someday I will have that.
Rita said after grampa Maxwell passed away people would come to her or her mom and say: "I owe you money that grampa loaned to me."
When I returned to James's ICU room, Stacy was reading from the book "Frankenstein". She said she would never have chosen to read this book except that Joshua gave it to her. She said so far she really likes it. Later I told Alex and he said, "Oh, that's a great book."
Stacy delivers for Amazon in the late afternoon into the evening. She uses her own car. Today she has a flat tire in LaVeen, which is south of Phoenix and west of Chandler. Triple A says they have already used up their help from them for the month, so Paul came out to fix the tire. Stacy used Paul's car to finish delivering the 16 packages she had left while he fixed the flat tire on her car.
James's Day
Breathing exercises with me. He goes between 1000 - 1250.
11:15 - James refuses breathing exercises because of pain.
12:30 - Stacy came to stay with James so I could go to lunch with Rita.
James got a tube in his side today to drain the blood and liquid from his chest cavity. Before it was over over 2 liters of liquid was drained.
Not only does James take Oxycodone for pain and have an epidural, he is on Dilaudid a hydro morphine. When James's dinner came I spoon fed him peaches, carrots and goulash. He also had thickened lemon water to drink. He wanted ice water and said, "I don't want it thick!" I told him that's all they would give him. He said, "Well, I won't drink it." I told him he was being difficult and he calmed down. He asked the nurse if he could have regular water and when she explained why he couldn't he said, "Okay, thank you,"
Alex and Sheri came by for a visit. At 5:45 James is lying down. He doesn't want to do anymore breathing treatments. He has the airpods that Sheri gave him in his ears and is listening to "Follow Him."
Courtney, the night nurse, seems awesome. She is very upbeat and friendly.
This is one of them.
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