Friday, January 14, 2011

John  had a little better day today. But he did not sleep well last night and was very uncomfortable and sore throughout the night. I was up several times to him By 6am he asked me to move him out to the sofa and he slept better there until the support worker arrived at 9am.
This afternoon we had lots of company. Frank was a friend of John's who used to come and pick him up and take him to Full Gospel meetings once John got that he could not drive there himself anymore. Through that connection, we met Frank's wife Pat, and she helped out for awhile with the ESL at Gateway. Frank has had several professions and one of them was as a hair dresser. So he very kindly came today  and cut John's hair and mine.He has offered to come once a month and do that for us. I never cease to be amazed at the wonderful ways God takes care of His children.
Margie also brought Mike and Laurie Boling over to meet us. They have just arrived at Gateway to join the staff. It was really nice to get to know them a little bit. We showed a part of the video taken at our graduation for WEC in 1998. It gave them a chance to get to know John in a way they will never see him now. It was wonderful - and sad - to see the "old" John up there talking and making everyone laugh.

Although John had a bit of a hard time near bedtime the rest of the day he felt pretty good so we will give it a one thumbs up for today.