The Journey Begins!

Our journey begins today.....sorta. Bobby has officially completed all the required classes needed to receive his surgery date. Those were relatively painless, if you don't count boredom as painful. His surgery date is one week away so now he must begin expanding his lung capacity. Several times a day he will use this contraption to do a breathing exercise that will help prevent pneumonia after surgery. Today he must also stop using his arthritis medicine, which neither of us are looking forward to. He already struggles with knee and back pain so severely even with the help of the medicine that I am very concerned about his mobility without it. Either way, it must be done, and so our journey begins.