G-pa Hoffman

So today Peter, Lucas and I drove to Philly to visit G-pa Hoffman at the hospital. For those of you who do not know, G-pa Carl Hoffman is in the hospital at Jefferson in Philly. On October 15, 2007, he was taken by ambulance to Lehigh Valley Hospital because he was very weak and having trouble breathing. After many tests it was determined that he was in multi-organ failure due to the weakness of his heart, which was only working at about 10% capacity. That was almost 3 months ago, right now he is feeling much better, but he now waiting to get a new heart.




So anyways as I was saying we all went to visit today, we usually do go every Sunday. It makes for a long day, but it's still really nice to get to visit him and he really enjoys having visitors, especially Lucas :) This picture isn't from today, but I think it's really cute because they both have their John Deere caps. This was Carl in Nov. he was still pretty rough then, but feeling better every day.








This picture was taken in Dec. you can see the big difference in Carl, here he's out of his hospital gown, and into his own Jeans and T-shirt so I'm sure that makes him feel 100% better. For more information on how Carl is doing you can visit his web page at: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/carlhoffman



This is a site dedicated solely to him, my sister-in-law Mindy is the one that usually keeps it updated, it's pretty cool so check it out.







So today we stayed for about 3 hours, really all there is to do there is sit and talk, which G-pa appreciated a lot. Usually we go out to the waiting room because it's bigger and carpeted, that way Lucas can crawl around and not get so rowdy. G-pa got to hold him for a bit while he drank his bottle. Thena all the boys went for a walk, while I stayed back and read :) So anyways that's really the only intersting thing that happened today, see you all next time.