7th Anniversary at Lake Tahoe

We have been fortunate enough to spend our honeymoon and three anniversaries at Lake Tahoe thanks to Drew's parents. We are happy to report that Drew was healthy enough to go this year, too. His leg is now almost all healed up and his leg sores are, as well.

We stay at Drew's parents' timeshare on the lake. It's a resort with wheelchair accessible units that have a bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom with a roll in shower.

They have been remodeling the units for years and have finally gotten to the wheelchair accessible ones. They have added features like automatically lowering shelves in the cupboards in the kitchen. This means Drew could reach items from the tops shelves.

It was pretty busy while we were there, but still relaxing. We were worried about the weather since there had been a lot of rain a few days earlier. There was flooding in nearby Reno and thunderstorms. But while we were in Tahoe, the weather was beautiful.

View of our hotel from one of the trails nearby

Before we head home, we usually have breakfast/brunch at Heidi's. It's a kitschy, Swiss chalet themed restaurant that plates your crepes or pancakes in the shape of an H, for Heidi. Or Hannah.

Happy 4th of July

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Happy 4th of July from California's capitol. I've been really bad about updating our blog lately. Drew's doing better, but he was back in the hospital at the beginning of June because a small blood vessel in his leg burst. Since he's been on Coumadin (the blood thinner for the two small blood clots in his lungs) that was a problem for bleeding into the muscle. It caused his leg to swell up. He was back in the hospital for five days until they got his blood thickened enough to stop the bleeding. So all of you who donate blood and plasma, thank you! He's still not up and around much yet because his leg swelling isn't totally gone yet. It makes his leg too stiff to transfer into and out of his chair and into the car, etc... We do have Home Care (finally after so many years of me being the sole nurse) coming to the house now because he hasn't been able to transfer into and out of his chair and into the car to go to the clinic to have his blood levels tested. They've also been changing most of his wound dressing for the sores on his legs, which are almost healed now, and the one on his heel. Hopefully, his leg swelling will be gone or nearly gone in a few weeks when we hope to go to Lake Tahoe for our anniversary.

My mom visited us this past week. We spent some time at Land Park and tried a Thai restaurant and an Ethiopian one.