Hi, Everbudy!
This is Old Bear ritin 2 U 4 the Oktober magazine
and I don't have much of anything xcitin 2 rite abowt this
time. I guess that's good cus I had purty much citement
wen my man wus in the hospital and wen we went on the Amtrak
to Samantha's wedding.
My man is getting purty much better frum havin the sirjury
on his heart and he kan du most anything he wants 2 du.
One thing he is duin is goin 2 sumpn kalled cardiac rehab.
This rehab thing is at the hospital where he had the
sirjury and he goes there 3 times a week. Wat he duz is
learn how the heart wurks and wat good things 2 eat and
wat bad things to not eat and how to read labels on cans
and lots of stuff like that. He's already learned that most
every thing he likes 2 eat is bad for him.
That's part of the rehab thing. The other part is
exercisin for a half hour every time to help build his
stamina. There are nurse ladies there who hook him up to a
little box kalled a monitor that tells wat all is goin on
inside of him by making pitchers with squiggly lines on a
tv lukin thing and prints it out on a piece of paper to put
in his records. There are maybe 4 or 5 peples in this rehab
thing with him.
After my man and these other peoples get hooked up
to their monitor thing they du sumpn kalled warm up which
is jist walking slow 3 or 4 times around the trak thing.
Then they du sum stretchin exercises and after that they du
30 minutes of workin out. My man sed a couple of peoples
walk on sumpn kalled a treadmill that is just a place where
you walk and don't go anywhere. My man walks on the track
and he goes round and round and don't go anywhere. If he
walks around this big circle thing seventeen and a half
times he's walked a mile. The nurse lady gives him a
kliker thing so he kan keep trak of how many times he goes
around in wat is kalled laps. He can do twenty-five of
these laps in thirty minutes without stoppin 2 rest. He
sed before he had his sirjury, like wen we went 2 New York,
he couldn't walk much more than a hunnert feet b4 stoppin to
rest. Sew he is doin pretty good. He sez he wants 2 B
able 2 walk real good by November wen we go on the crews
so he kan walk round and round the ship deck. I sed that
didn't sound like much fun 2 me sew that is wen I wuld take
a nap.
My man sez he is a little worried about goin on this
crews cus he has herd abowt all the good food they fix and
he probly won't get 2 eat hardly any of it cus he is supposed
to eat wat is kalled "heart healthy" food. He sez the
other word for that is BUMMER.
Wen I du my ritin 4 November I can tell you abowt
the mystery trip me and my man are goin on in October. It
is goin 2 B a 2 day trip and we won't no wear we r goin until
we are on our way. This will be a coach trip and the pitcher
at the top of this ritin shows a coach like we will be ridin on.
Who we r
goin with is the Travel Ministy peoples we have been to New
York and other places with.
I said we wouldn't no where we were goin but Mr.
Steve, who planned the trip, put out a page with sum clews
that if we kan figger them out will say where we are
goin. My man thinks we are goin to San Antonio and if he
is rite that is gud cus I've been there maybe 3 or 2 times
and it is a real fun place to visit.
After the Mystery Trip we'll have 2 wait until
November to go on the crews. I'll tell you all abowt that
in December.
Bye!
