Striding.

(Andree here) Nancy sent me these wonderful pix of Erik enjoying the Stride school event with the kids - who ran 1.5k, I might add!

I saw E Saturday and Sunday. He was in form to eat a bit of spaghetti Saturday and enjoy a massive thunder and lighting storm out at his house. He's healing up from the skin samples taken from him by his dermatologist -- "What did they use, man? An apple corer?" I said when I saw the scabs. Nothing bad found there, just some kind of rash.

Yesterday morning he was a little more subdued at first after a restless night and thinking maybe a liquid diet would be nice to give his gut a little break. The idea is that the enzymes he is taking will among other things etch away at the adhesions in his intestines which pull and push not so comfortably when food is to be gotten through them. Till they do, liquid cuisine would cut down his discomfort. That's really what bothers him most!

Andy and Amy Collen dropped by a little later. By then he was moving around and got into the putting up of his new gate. We didn't let him lift, but he got to do all the fiddly bits with the attachments. Oh wait, we DID let him lift some shelving later.

So let's all think about telling some adhesions to piss off, and about E having some more gut comfort and some more rest.