12-23-25 heading back to Atlanta and 12-24-25 back home

 

 So what did Miss Cocoa come up with last night?  She left Layla a cake mix and icing and a note to make a birthday cake for Jesus.  And on Christmas, she did!

Last morning here.  Although we do have the condo for another night, but are leaving a day early.  

Looks like another beautiful day!!!!

Our Christmas sweatshirts picture at the beach.  Didn't need the sweatshirts, but after what we went through to get my sweatshirt---we made it happen.  How did I get my shirt?----We found 1 in the Panama City area (about 30 miles away) so I ordered it and had it delivered to the front desk.  Worked out great--even though it had the wrong address on the order.  I'm loving this no shipping fees from Walmart with my Walmart+ membership!

Love all the decorations on the skywalk to the parking garage.

Made someone walking by take our picture

love the snowman tree

Santa Elf

Santa Layla

looking across the skywalk.  They actually have a bar to the left and a coffee shop near the condo end of it.

from the parking garage end

loved this tree decorated with sea things.

a selfie closer to the beach

 And on our way

Good bye palm trees

over the bridge and through the palms

to the scrub pines we go

sites along the way

horsies

cowies

even some hay

Not too long 'til we were in Alabama

The little peanut meeting the big peanut

 

back on the road

land of cotton

Bye Florida

bye sunflowers

Hello Alabama hogs

Hello Alabama home

hello Alabama snowman

Run, kid, run!

the clouds I'm used to seeing when we're driving to/from Florida.  On Sat. it was cloudless.

still some color in the trees down South

an occassional lake

wonder what they're catching

forget the town, but we went by a street with some really pretty old Victorian homes.

or semi-victocian

Layla has become a great little traveller

more water

love the light on the tall grass

The scenic highway in Georgia (I-85?)

NW Atlanta.  Back to traffic

Time to get Ken out of the nursing home.  So glad Josh was able to check in on him every day.  And Andrea.  I'm not sure the facility workers did much of anything for him.  Not even sure they fed him.  At least Andrea gave him a couple Boosts.  Josh would change the tv channel.  But I think they even left it on all night.  I wonder if they left the lights on, too?

 I thought of going to see him on the 23rd before I went home, but decided it might stress him out more.  So ate Chick fil a with the kids, then got home about 8.  

12-24-25  Ken comes home!

They were supposed to bring Ken home between 11 and 1.  I thought about riding over there and getting him ready to come home---or thought about running to the grocery store before he came home.  But good thing I didn't do either.  About 9:30 they just showed up at the door.  No biggie since we were home.  I was glad to have him back early.  But wasn't too happy with the condition he was in.  He was pretty contorted.  Couldn't straighten his legs out without him writhing in pain.  Andrea assumed it was from his feet being cramped against the footboard of the bed since it wasn't an extended bed.  He was also soaked.  They never put any of the external catheters on that I took up there, so who knows how long he was sitting in pee.  I can understand them not changing someone right away, but they could do other things to make things more comfortable---like use the extra men's guards that I took up there which I even use with the catheter.  So he did have some sores.  I didn't even know if he'd had his morning meds.  After I got him situated, I went to put his luggage away and found not only his luggage, but someone else's luggage, too.  Plus they forgot to bring back the pad with the handles that they kept on him when they took him and assured they'd bring back.  At least someone from the transportation company  called pretty quickly and said they'd be bringing it and the medicine that they found in the van.  So I got them to take the other luggage back with them, too.  Andrea even came to check on him.  She's been great.  She really seems to care about her patients and what she's doing.  With the med packs delivered, I was able to tell he hadn't had his morning meds yet.  Also noticed he had only taken 1 Lorazepan.  They had told Andrea he was on them everyday so I was expecting that to be why he was out of it most of the time.  I also didn't see a bubble pack card for Carvidolol---is that why his blood pressure was so high?  Andrea even had Losartan started back up since his blood pressure was over 220/120 on Sun.  I got him to eat a little and take his meds.  Let him rest the rest of the day.  Wonder what he remembers about any of this now?!  I always said he wouldn't remember being gone once he was back, but while he was there and I wasn't, he'd probably be stressed.  I think my fears were right.  Angie even asked him on Sat. Dec. 20 how he liked his ride and he said he didn't think he had been anywhere.