Today's picture was taken on December 27, 2008. As you can see, Peter was hamming it up with Mattie. Peter was trying very hard to cheer Mattie up and to break through his depression. Mattie had very short lived moments of fun and happiness. But for the most part it was a very difficult Thanksgiving and Christmas for us. Mattie, by that point, had medical traumatic stress and unfortunately his doctors did not believe us. That was until he returned to the hospital for a check up and to continue treatment. Mattie was hysterical. He did not want any one coming near him, and forget about examining him. It was very clear FINALLY to his treatment team that there was a psychosocial problem and NOT a reaction to pain meds.
Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.
- Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 50,216,029
- Number of people who died from the virus: 799,845
One of the things I worked on today was taking our Halloween pumpkins and transforming them into pumpkin apple soup. I have done this before, but NOT since Mattie was alive. So that is how long ago this was. Frankly ever since Mattie died, Peter and I haven't purchased a pumpkin to display at our home. That is until this year.
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