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Ross update - October 11

by swapmoto | Oct 11, 2009 |

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Ross has been moved to St. Jude’s in Fullerton, and it is obvious that the care is better than it was at Riverside County. He has several therapy sessions during the day and he says that it is a lot of hard work. When I was in Las Vegas for the TWMX Awards show, I spoke with Jimmy Button and he told me that this is the point when it gets tough. I know that Ross is struggling with all of the daily tasks that he must now learn to do with only his arms, but I know it will come quickly for him. Ross may be OLD, but he is a bad ass who works out every day and is in great shape. I am sure that once he gets the hang of things, he will be flying in and out of bed and all of that like a gymnast.
Ross’ youngest daughter Molly lives in San Francisco, where she is studying, but she was down this weekend to visit with Ross. I’ve always admired Ross’ parenting skills, and both of his daughters have grown up to be amazing young women whom I love to spend time with. I hope my kids turn out as great!
As I wrote previously, Ross has some tingles down his legs - more predominantly on his right side - and says that he can feel a draft on his legs once in a while. It wasn’t like this at first, so I am taking this as a good sign and a preview of greater things to come. This morning, after my youngest daughter’s soccer game in Tustin, we ventured into Costa Mesa where there are quite a few Japanese restaurants and even a big ass market. We went to a little joint called BENTOSS, which makes Japanese boxed lunches. We went in to get Rossi a lunch, since hospital food is usually NASTY. It looked plenty authentic inside, right down to the plastic food on display. When I ordered, though, I was cracking up because both the woman who took my order, and the one in the back making the lunches, were of hispanic decent. Hmmm…maybe that’s why they call it Costa Mexico. (I’m just kididng of course, so all you righteous haters who are about to accuse me of being a racist…save it. And besides, I’m a minority myself - I’m allowed to joke like that!) Anyway, I don’t know if the lunch was awesome or not because Ross wasn’t hungry when we were there. I will ask for a full report tomorrow, and if he says it was “oishii,” maybe I will go get one for myself tomorrow.

Ross’ friend Greg Berg from Sunline set up a cool web site for him, where you can sign in and leave a comment for my brother. I know he checks it and reads the comments…I think that’s what he’s doing in this picture! So leave him a message, if you’d like…
CLICK HERE

Thanks,
Swap


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