January 9

The insertion of the nephrostomy tube was successful.  To review the bag situation...Judy has an ostomy, a catheter, and two neph bags.  The ostomy is continuing to work and as hope for, Judy is experiencing less nausea.  She is still on clear fluids.  I am not sure how honey dew melon qualifies as clear fluids, but there was a bowl of honey dew on Judy's tray and she chowed down the complete serving.  She also slurped down all her grape juice.  Reporting all these things may seem trivial to the uninformed, but followers of this blog will know this is progress.  I know many of you are probably wondering about my first session in the Mennonite Pro Leagues.  Well, there were two 50 year olds, one 59.9 year old (me), and the rest were 20 somethings.  One young guy sees me getting dressed and says," I suppose it has been a few years since you strapped on the old blades, eh?"  Now, I didn't skate circles around these guys; however, I was able to keep up and I even managed to score a couple goals.  I had a blast and I will be back next Friday night while the rest of the world is sleeping or watching The National.