New Room

Hi All,
This is Bev again. It is early morning on Friday and we are in our new room on oncology, room 1135. First let me say Happy Birthday to our son, Jeff. Today is Good Friday and Jeff was born 26 years ago on Palm Sunday. Hope you have a great day Jeff. We Love You.
So, we didn't get to our new room till 9:00 last night and Ken went right to bed. But I stayed up getting his room organized and finding things on the 11th floor. I think when Ken gets up and starts moving around today, he is going to have another culture shock. It doesn't take long on this floor to realize he is a cancer patient. I think that will settle in very soon. They aren't as keen about Ken walking around once he starts Chemo. They have an exercise bike in his room and they can bring in a treadmill. I think the bike might be hard with his chest tubes, but he should be able to do the treadmill if it slows down enough for him. I found him a new meds pole last night that I think I can rig his chest tube boxes too. That will help make him more independently mobile. We will try it later this morning.
We have a lot going on today, heart ultra sound, blood work, bone marrow biopsy and I'm hoping to push for an ear, nose, throat guy to see him today. The speech therapist visited him yesterday and he said we shouldn't wait three weeks till Ken gets back to Fort Collins. Hope we can get them to come to him here.
So people have been asking me how they can help us and I need a few things, so I am just going to ask.
Is there anyone out there that would do half Ken's paper route till the end of finals week? It would pay $30 a day and it is only on campus, 8 stops at dorms, library, etc. It would be from 6 am - 7:30 am. There are a couple stops that don't open till 7:00, so starting earlier wouldn't help much. Please call us if you think you can help.
Also, I am going to try to work next week, but would like to have help driving up to see Ken in the late afternoons and evenings. We can bring my car, but I was hoping to have a driver for a couple of nights so I can rest during the drive. Let me know if you'd be available for this.
And, I hate to ask for this. But I was wondering if there are any of you that might do a marathon clean day for us next Saturday, the 18th. My parents are coming to town on the 19th and I thought maybe friends that have offered might consider coming over all at once for an hour of major cleaning at my house. I just don't want to stay there this week long enough to do it. So maybe we could meet there at about 10 on Sat. Let me know if you would be interested. It is amazing how dirty things can get when you aren't even there. I run in and grab stuff and dump stuff and haven't been able to do any cleaning. My parents can help when they get here, but I'd sure feel better having it clean when they arrive.
The other thing is the fund raiser that we are trying to get started. We have 3 ideas.
We are going to buy some red rubber bracelets to sell for $2 each. Linda Carpenter is going to order them and we need to know how many to order. If you think you could sell some for us, please let Linda know or myself and we can get some to you. Ken wanted them to say "Have a Coke and a Smile". Linda is checking to see if we are allowed to use that slogan. We may have to say have a coke and a grin or laugh. I hope they let us say Coke. Let us know if you want to sell bracelets and how many you want.
We are also checking on getting a big flat screen TV to raffle off. It will be from Ultimate Electronics and we want to end the raffle during finals week, so be looking for something in the blog soon about this. Hope we can get the legal stuff worked out so we can do this.
We also thought about raffling a timeshare weekend or week. There would have to be some coordination with the winner as it takes a bit to set up the time and place. But it could be arranged. We are still thinking about this one.
Well the first doc just came in the the others will be in soon, so I better finish getting ready for the day. Have a Great Good Friday. We are basking in God's Glory this morning. Bless you all. Bev and Ken