What a couple of days we've had so far! Bill was tired all day yesterday and I left early to miss the heavy rains of the tropical storm. Went to bed at 9 and got called at 11 to come back and stay with him. He tried to get out of bed again. I ended up sleeping on the gym mat they put down beside his bed. It was more comfortable than the straight back chair in his room! Finally got him to settle down about 1:30 and they got us up at 4. Transport came at 5:15 in a steady downpour to get us to Mayo. Biopsy was at 7:30 and we got back to the center at 10:30. Got Bill settled and I left a little after 11 for some food and a nap. Just recently got back and Bill had a nap and was having therapy. He still has speech therapy to go and then a dressing change. I talked to the nurse and she was going to call the dr. to see if he can have something to sleep tonight. He had not slept in 2 nights and was not making much sense he was so tired.

I felt bad that I had to get stern with him last night. It's sometimes like dealing with a 2 year old. I know a lot of it is the stroke and some of it is the medications. But knowing that doesn't make it any easier. It's not knowing which Bill I'm going to be dealing with that's hard, and he can go from coherent to irrational in a heartbeat. He did say yesterday that he knew they had fixed the problem with his heart because now it went "thump" instead of "whirr"!

We saw some good friends at Mayo today that we hadn't seen for awhile. Our friend Ralph was there for his biopsy and John and Cindi were back for a check-up. Also a new friend we had seen walking the halls with her IV pole was transplanted on the 13th and she was back for her biopsy.

The biopsy went well and Dr. Yip said that he is now on the monthly schedule. He was impressed with how he looked. We'll know the results tomorrow afternoon. I got to stay in the biopsy room for the entire procedure which was interesting, but I had to stay far away so didn't get to really see anything. But, it only took 20 minutes from the time the ultrasound tech walked in until the band-aid was put on. The nurse thought that was probably a new record!

Hopefully tonight will be a better night. The weather is still awful with a tornado watch added to the flood watch and rip current advisory and floor warning and lake wind advisory. But, right now it's not raining, not windy, and I'm not planning on going swimming.