A Day of Recoupment

After yesterday, today was a day of rest. Hollywood Video came to show a movie (Shark Tale) so Bailey and I went down to watch it. We're huge Will Smith fans since we watch Fresh Prince every night. (And, thanks, Scott [Andrews], but every time I see Carlton, I see you!)

Bailey got beads and necklace material for her birthday. So she started making jewelry today. I'm wearing one of her necklaces and she made a bracelet for her nurse, Amanda. But Amanda came back in the room with a pocket full of beads. Her bracelet broke and the beads scattered all over the hallway. (She just needs to tweek her skills a bit.)

After yesterday's emotional rollercoaster, Dr. T popped in to see how we were doing. Bailey wouldn't even look at him -- she later explained that she was afraid he had more bad news - "bad" being going into surgery soon. We told him how scary it was and that it caught us off-guard after just hanging out here for 2 months. He's such a sweetie. He tried to make us feel better by telling us it just wasn't the perfect heart and that the perfect heart would come and hopefully soon. The longer he talked, the lower his head fell and the more he mumbled. (He's not very good at these situations, but he tries.) He finally said, "Well, today just wasn't meant to be, and if it's not meant to be, it just isn't meant to be." Bailey and I looked at each other and just busted out laughing! He realized what he said and laughed with us. He's a good guy. He accomplished what he set out to do - make us feel better. It just wasn't exactly how he planned.

Then he told us he might be going out of town for the weekend to California for a conference and, coincidentally, the documentary team is going to be in the same area covering a race. We accused him of just going out there to party with the guys. He said he would have a nationwide pager with him and that if a heart became available he could jet back and take care of us. I told him that I vote he stay here this weekend. I'm sure he'll take that into consideration, don't you think?

Unfortunately, we're really struggling with getting homework from school. There's a bottleneck somewhere with science and social studies. That's pretty frustrating when we're trying to catch up with all the other students but can't seem to get the work from the school. Not sure what's going on there, but hopefully will get that straightened out soon. I would hate for Bailey to be left behind just because they didn't keep us updated.

I'll catch up with you again tomorrow.

Hugs to all, Angie