LONG DAY YESTERDAY

MIKE IS STILL RESTING IN BED DISPITE THE TWO PHONES CALLS WE HAVE ALREADY HAD THIS AM AND BOTH OUR DOGIES DOING THEIR VERY BEST TO WAKE HIM UP.  THEY STILL MISS THEIR WALKS IN THE AM, BUT NOT ONLY CAN MIKE NO LONGER DO THEM, BUT BECAUSE OF THE TICK SITUATION, MASSEY SAID THEY SHOULD BE CONFINED TO THEIR OWN YARD FOR THE TIME BEING.  I THINK MIKE MAY THINK THAT MORE IS GOING ON THEN MEETS THE EYE.  YESTERDAY HE HAD SOME BLOOD IN HIS OSTOMY BAG, AND WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. I TRIED TO MAKE LIGHT OF IT BY SAYING IT COULD BE FROM HIS LAST HOSPITAL STAY-TO WHICH HE REPLIED "WHEN WAS I IN THE HOSPITAL"?  I ALSO TOLD HIM I WOULD ASK THE DOCTOR ABOUT IT AT MY APPOINTMENT TODAY.  I TRY HARD TO KEEP HIM CALM, AND I THINK FOR THE MOST PART HE IS.  HE IS GOING TO BED EARLIER AND EARLIER, AND GETTING UP LATER AND LATER, BUT HE SAYS HE IS OK JUST TIRED.   HE IS ALSO VERY EMOTIONAL LATELY.  IT IS LIKE HE IS ON THE VERG OF CRYING WHEN EVER HE SAYS HE LOVES US, OR WHAT GREAT KIDS WE HAVE.  HE SAYS "WE MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING RIGHT-THEY SURE TURNED OUT GOOD". MY SISTER VICKIE HAS BEEN A HUGE HELPER IN ALL THIS.  NOT TOO LONG AGO THE ROLES WERE REVERSED, AND MIKE AND I WERE HELPING HER WITH HER TERMINALLY ILL HUSBAND NOW, I AM SURE THANKFUL TO HAVE HER SO CLOSE BY.  I FEEL GUILTY BECAUSE I HAVE SO LITTLE TIME FOR PERSONAL PHONE CALLS NOW.  MOST PEOPLE WHO CALL WANT TO KNOW HOW MIKE IS DOING, AND WITH HIM SITTING RIGHT BY ME, THERE IS NO WAY I CAN TELL THEM.  ANY HOW, ONE SUCH FRIEND IS ON HER WAY OVER RIGHT NOW (GAIL), SO I NEED TO GET DRESSED.  I HOPE I WILL HAVE MORE NEWS TOMORROW AFTER SPEAKING WITH MIKE'S DOCTOR TODAY.  TILL THEN-NEVER THROW IN THE TOWEL-JUST ME