Laughter is the Best Medicine

You know, I can count on both hands the number of times that I've managed to make Dave laugh until the tears run down his face. This in the space of the 24 years that we've known each other. Being a natural clown, he doesn't laugh at other's antics very often, even if he does find them mildly humorous. I'm please to announce that I did it again! (albeit unintentionally).

I was telling him that I wanted to change the shower head on our downstairs shower. I've bought the part needed and just need to find Dave's vice grips to get the job done. He started to tell me where the vice grips could be found and then decided that he had another tool that would do the job better. As he started to describe this tool, he suddenly stopped and started to laugh heartily until the tears were streaming down his face. I must have been a sight, I couldn't figure out why he was laughing. After cleaning up his face of tears, he told me that I had had that "dear caught in the headlights" look and that was what made him laugh. Well, what ever works! After all, Laughter IS the best medicine.

On a more concerned note, we were told today that Dave's blood sugar levels are still quite out of whack, even though he has been off the cortisone for several days. There could be three reasons for this. The first is that the cortisone hasn't completely worked itself out of his system, the second is that his body is still "stressed" from the many surgical procedures he's had to endure, and the third (the one we hope is not the case) is that he has developed type 2 diabetes. He took the news well, and with the usual "Dave" blasé attitude. "So I may have to take more pills than just the one in the morning and watch what I eat." He took it far better than I would have had someone told me I may have diabetes!

The ICU is still his home away from home for the time being. He knows all of the nurses by their first name now and has a friendly rivalry going with Eric, one of the nurses. Eric, you see, is a Boston Bruins fan.

I'll let you all know when he's out so that if any of you would like to visit, you may.

That's all the news for now, more tomorrow.