The Flowers.

Some of you might be wondering what happened to the beautiful flowers that many of you sent to Katie and Paula.

When we checked Katie out of the hospital on Sunday, we moved her flowers to Paula's room, so that we could all continue to enjoy them (because really, we've spent very little time in the hotel room). Today when we checked Paula out, we knew that we didn't want to take the flowers with us -- we leave on Thursday and again, don't plan to spend much time in the hotel room. So we asked one of the nurses to help us distribute them -- to other patients in need of pretty flowers, to put them at the main desk in the unit, for the nurses to take, whatever, we wanted someone to enjoy them. When we returned from the pharmacy (our final stop before taking Paula home), we passed the nurse we'd asked to help us, who told us that the distribution had begun, and showed us the lovely vase of flowers she was taking home to enjoy! When we got back to the room, more than half of the flowers were already gone!

Everyone who sent flowers should be happy to know that they are still being enjoyed.