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Cord's Heart - Sweet Sleep and He Won't Be Stopped

10/18/2015

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Happy Sunday To All

Cord has slept for three nights now!  The first night he only thrashed for an hour, but the last two nights - he went to bed and slept - like people do!  He comes home smiling.
Thank goodness - let's hope it continues.  His belt has no more loops left on it to tighten.  He is working on the bedroom - he is enjoying it and after 'the roof incident' - he has been working mostly on the ground.  He installed a couple of working windows he had stored away - the originals didn't open so this is an awesome upgrade.  
Shelbel - our mighty-mighty friend - finished the walls yesterday - she is so good and fast and super upbeat and we love her so.  She came 5 times and worked for a sammy and a cup of tea!  
Today, on another absolutely beautiful day on the mountain - Cord trimmed in our bedroom with the leftover beetle kill.  He wants to just go and go - I presented him with a smoothie - with lots of bananas. He is enjoying getting to work on our house - he is always building greenhouses and rarely has time.  This allows him to work at whatever pace he can and I can tell that this is like therapy - he enjoys building and he gets to do it without any stress.  
After being on the roof - he did have sore legs - he was rubbing his thighs but was glad for the muscle improvement - it's hard to spend 9 days in the hospital - you lose muscle so fast.  
He is weighing himself every day - and taking his blood pressure and his oxygen level.  The home nurse has been coming - she is very helpful - but scared of bees - which means she jumps occasionally.  :)  
He's managing his meds - it's getting easier I think and he's getting used to a routine.  Every afternoon at 3 - I have a cup of tea and this is when he needs to take a pill so I help him remember with that one. Otherwise, he is on it. 
I have no doubt that in a month or two, when he gets another ECHO to see if his heart function has improved, anything better than 10% will be terrific - his numbers are going to be outstanding and once his heart is over 35-40% - he can carry on without the Life Vest.  So that's what I'm asking for - that it all goes as planned and he continues to improve.
 
Here's some pics of our bedroom - on a high-speed build - Shelbel even told me about a paint sale in Canon City and I saved $20 per gallon - what a score!  We have just the floor to go.
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Oh and by the way - to our snowy friend way up north, thanks to you Annie - the ceiling is gorgeous!  I can't wait to lie in bed and look at the beetle kill patterns in the wood - it's way beyond our wildest dreams!
Love on the wind to you all,
Penn
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Walls are finished - thank you Shelbel!
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New windows!
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Cord trimming away.
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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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