Hello From Rockville

We are having beautiful weather, this time of the year is so nice especially when we get enough rain to make everything lush and green and all the colorful wild flowers along the road sides brighten up the country side.

I spent time with Harlan and it was decided that he should not be on prednisone which may have caused the garbled speech, his dosage was very low, they will totally take it away and I was assured there would be no side effects. It has also made him very hipper and he tried to leave his floor using the elevator, he wears an ankle bracelet that will not let him go down on the elevator, the elevator will not work unless the alarm is cancelled and he can't do that him self. They have two elevators and the alarm system does not work on the one so he could get away if they were not watching him. Both Denese and I have told them his ankle bracelet does not work with the one elevator but it seems that it just is not being fixed and I have deep concerns about that.

We met Denese at Pizza Ranch for our afternoon treat, ordered a large pizza and brought half home for tomorrow. He ate well but it was hard conversing with him as we could only understand part of what he said and we had to be careful how we answered him.

I'll be in touch tomorrow........Fran