Radiothon June 2, 3, 4

Bailey's had a great day today! So much energy - I don't know where it came from - probably just glad to be feeling good again. She got a lot of schoolwork done today. I think the teacher was here 2 or 3 hours working with her on math. Her teacher, Michelle, is so nice. This is her last scheduled week to work at the hospital before summer break, but she said she'd come in on a volunteer basis to get Bailey through her math if they didn't get it done this week. I was a little worried last week about getting it done - she didn't have school at all on Thursday or Friday because she didn't feel very good at all. But she made up for all that today!

Bailey had Dr. T shaking his head in disgust yesterday. He walked in the room and she hadn't taken her medicine yet and the nurse pointed it out. So, she grabbed the syringe (with the little blue cap on the end), bit off the little blue cap, spit the cap out on her bed with great force, and downed her medication. He then pointed out that I am going to have so much "deprogramming" to do once we get home - and I have absolutely no doubt that that is the case. He walked in a few days ago to discover a cup full of empty syringes with little blue caps, and written on the side was "Bailey's Weapons". She demonstrated to him that she pulls the inside of the syringe out as far as it will go without falling out, places the little blue cap on the end of the syringe, and shoots the cap across the room. She likes to shoot them at people - namely, Dr. T. I don't worry so much when he walks in wearing his glasses, but when he doesn't have anything to protect his eyes, I'm in great fear that his career will suddenly come to an end when she impales one of his eyes with one of those little blue caps. [I was looking at myself in the mirror this morning, and I noticed that I suddenly have lots of grey hair. Hm.]

For all you Indy people out there, you'll have to tune in to 95.5 WFMS this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They're doing a radiothon for Riley Hospital in the atrium. Mimi is going to interview Bailey at some point (I think Thursday late afternoon or evening) and she mentioned something about using some excerpts from this blog page. We were on the phone today talking about the telethon and her husband (Jim Denny) was in the background telling her to tell me that he would see me in the atrium Thursday morning at 5:00 a.m. for the morning show! I'll be there, Jim!!! - - give or take 4 or 5 hours.

Bailey had some Miss America contestants visit her yesterday -- Miss Texas, Miss Nevada, and Miss Pennsylania. They were very pretty, of course, and very nice. Gave Bailey a makeover with bright pink lipstick [Dr. T popped in later and said, "Boy, that Berlin Heart is really pinking your lips up, huh!"], and they painted Josie and Marissa's nails. They each got their own little tiara to wear. They had a good time with that.

Our pigeon came to greet us outside our window today. He was so cute, but his beady little red eyes still spook me a bit. I bought a $10-pair of binoculars last week in the gift shop just so we can spy on him! We named him Perry - short for Peregrin Falcon, which is what we really wish he was because that would make for much more excitement, but we go with what we have.

They're starting "room service" tomorrow here at the hospital. Instead of the hospital trays, Bailey gets to order from a really nice menu any time of day (except the nighttime hours - looks like we'll still have to order midnight pizza on our own). We'll really excited for this - especially the part about breakfast being available any time of the day. This could potentially solve our only two complaints - lack of variety (well . . . and quality), and the cafeteria not being open long enough (not at all on weekends). We'll let you know how it works! But we'll give them a while to work out the bugs first.

Hope all is well at R&L, I miss you guys! Hope all is well at First Christian Church of Shelbyville - we miss you guys!

See you soon,
Angie