Our Hosptial Room

I’ve decided this entry will be mostly pictures. I’m so excited about our room, I wanted to share it with you. The hospital staff suggested we make our room feel like home. So this is what I tried to do.

This is Wendy's office area, exercise bike, vinyl lettering on the wall and window, a modern lamp for ambience, fake flowers to brighten up our day, the flag to act as a window/door covering that Van had in his Seminary room and which brings him very happy memories.

Our daughter Lindsie Boucher just graduated today from Utah State University with two degrees, one in Elementary Education and one in Special Education. She has been offered
a job to teach Special Education in a Charter School ten minutes from her home. She is going to start substitute teaching 4th graders for a teacher going on maternity leave at the Charter school starting Tuesday. She is really close to getting a job teaching special needs pre-school in the summer. Josh her husband is applying for Medical School this year and hopefully by next fall he’ll have been accepted to a school of his choice.

I don’t think I mentioned that Olivia was baptized last Saturday. We had our 17 year old home teacher Dalyn Harrison, baptize Olivia and Van confirmed her. It was a beautiful day.

We are in room #E853 at the LDS Hospital. Please feel free to call 801-408-3853 anytime. I know Van would love to hear from you.

Van has done pretty good with radiation--just one more day. Only a few undesirable episodes of vomiting and out of control nausea but other than that he is just tired and nauseous every time I tell him it’s time to eat something. So I just order something from the menu and feed him until he begs me to stop. The Doctors want him to eat, because they don’t want to have to put him on TPN (Total Nutrition) through his IV because if you are on it for a long time, it has long lasting side effects. He’ll have to go on it at sometime but hopefully not so soon.