It's been a while. When I was last seen, I had hoped that Zoe would have come home from the hospital on Saturday the 2nd but that didn't happen until Sunday. (Zoe's post on her hospital stay.) She has been home almost a week now but is still not out of the woods. She was on a liquid diet and we have been introducing new foods. The doctor put her on a BRAT diet: bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. She had toast for the first time last night and her stomach started to act up. I got up at three this morning and made her some chamomile tea. That seemed to help. The doctor also said to reduce stress. Easier said than done with all that is going on with her mom. I've taken over making the phone calls about her mom. Her paperwork is finally on the way to get her on Medicaid. I also found out that it may take another two to three months to get Gerry out of Western State. Gerry has been doing much better but she can't get on the discharge list even if she was ready to be discharged because they only can only handle 10 on the discharge list. Someone had to be discharged before anyone else can get on the list. It's a manpower restriction. The discharge process then takes about two months to get all the reports and evaluations done. And that's if they find a place that will take her. With Zoe in the hospital for almost a week, I got behind on work. That's almost caught up with now. Now to get my links organized so that I can start posting again. I did get a number of books read, however, so there will be some recommendations coming. Regularly scheduled programming to resume at any moment.