Baptism at our new house

I spent last night with Mom and she had a good night.   No one bothered us during the night until 4am, which is actually good.  Mom is quite weak and couldn't seem to walk more than a few feet last night.  But that may have been because yesterday, during the day, Mom had a procedure done where they removed liquid from the sacs around her lung.  She went through the procedure with flying colors and I was so proud of her!  She seemed to feel less pain afterwards but she was kind of groggy and remained that way through the night.  She did eat a little bread and turkey and some apple sauce that evening.

Today, Guillermo came to the hospital with breakfast for the two of us - Mom had already eaten hers.  She ate almost everything - pancakes, the cream of wheat, the peaches and the hot tea.  In the morning, she was taken down to imaging for some xrays.  She wasn't as groggy today and seemed a little more alert even though she still did seem very tired.  We skyped with Aunt Mirli and with Andrew during the day.  At least twice I encourage Mom to sit up - to change her position from just lying in the bed.  So once she sat for quite a while in a chair in the room and another time she sat on the edge of the bed - even standing for a while by the edge of the bed.  Brian, the nurse who was so kind to her when she first was admitted came by twice to see how she was doing and to say hello to her.  He does this even though she is not on "his side of the hall".  I can tell she is always happy to see him.

Guillermo and I left the hospital around 2:30 and went to pick up his truck from the garage even though it is still not fixed.  He'll need to bring it back when a part that they are waiting for comes in.  Anyway, from there we went to storage and took out several things to take to our new house.  As we left storage, Guillermo went in one direction and I went in the other - it was a test to see which way would work the best.  I ended up getting to the house first and what a shock I found when I opened the garage door.  There was water on the inside of the garage on the left hand side.  So, I walked to the door to the kitchen, was relieved to see it was unlocked and I thought I heard water.  Sure enough, there seemed to be a leak coming from the hot water pipe for the washing machine.  I turned the faucet to stop the water but instead of cutting off the water, it made the water flow even faster!!!  I was floored.  All I could think to do was to get that water turned off but had no idea how to do that so I went across the street and knocked on those people's door and asked if they could help me.  They came out quickly and tried to cut off the water at the street and by this time, Guillermo showed up.  He was just as shocked as I was.  Their first attempt at cutting off the water didn't work so they went back to the main to try something else.  By this time, though, the entire floor in the laundry room was covered in water.  It was unbelievable.  Fortunately, none of it got into the house itself.   Tomorrow a plumber is coming out to look at the situation.......