The old and the new

This place has been a bee hive this morning! At about 8:30, a guy arrived with a new hospital bed supplied by Hospice. Yes, despite the fact that we already have a perfectly good hospital bed that Rob is renting, now that Betsey is under Hospice, it has to be their bed. Another little glimpse of the inefficiency of our health care system. Wouldn't it have been easier for Hospice to just take over that bed? Oh well. The new bed does have two advantages:  1) it has an air mattress, and 2) it raises and lowers electrically instead of with a crank.

At first, we thought Betsey would have to be gotten out of bed, but then we saw that the new bed could be assembled right next to the old bed, and we could just slide her over. That all went very smoothly, and then Rob disassembled the old bed, and it is now in the dining room and the rental company will pick it up tomorrow, 

                           The old bed awaits pickup 

But that wasn't all this morning. Weeks ago, Rob was using the weed whacker, and it threw a stone into the window next to the front door and shattered it. It was safety glass, like a windshield, so it shattered, but didn't come out. He taped it up with blue tape temporarily. Well, the glass repair guy chose to come this morning to replace it. So that has been going on too. 

     The old window out ....

                    .......the new one going in 

The other big news is that John is flying out tomorrow! He'll arrive at DIA at 11am,  and take the shuttle to Boulder, where I will pick him up at 1:11pm. The first three nights, we have an AirBnB for him in Gold Hill, just 10 minutes up the road. That will be sort of neat. Then on Saturday, he and Ellen and I will move into a free little apartment in Boulder that has been arranged for by one of Rob 's board members. We have the use of that for a month. That will ease up the bathroom situation here at the house, and the bed can be taken out of the living room - which is where Ellen and I have been sleeping.

                              The living room bed

A time of change in many respects!