Away From Crichelle

Today, marks the first day that Crichelle is by herself. I left at about 6:15 this morning to come to work. I tried to make sure that everything was in reach so that her few hours alone would be okay. I also, put a movie in the DVD player as well as the XBox so that she would not have to try to be Superwoman and do to much. I also bought her a universal remote so that she can control everything. It is much better than the remotes from the hospital with the call button.
Crichelle has been doing much better. As I mentioned in yesterdays post, she has been able to get out of bed to use the restroom which is a big step. She did this twice last night by herself. I was watching, but I wanted to make sure that she could do it, before I left her today.
I also brought her laptop closer to her so that we can correspond through email throughout the day. One of the joys of teaching technology courses is the fact that I get to use it a lot. Technology is there to benefit us and help make our lives easier and more efficient and I can't think of to many better ways than this. If anyone would like to email Crichelle her email address is chelly_gb@yahoo.com.
Another interesting use of technology is the ability to place streaming web video on the Internet. Just recently, the church of Christ at Katy installed video cameras for that purpose. At first some people were wondering why we would do this and didn't quite understand all of the advantages that this allowed. Like I said technology is meant to assist us. In this case, Crichelle cannot get up and go attend services like she normally would, but what she can do is logon to the web site using the free Wi-Fi that the hospital gives us and listen to the lessons and singing. Again, this was not implemented as an alternative to attending services, but as an outreach to those who may not be able to attend or who don't know about the church. We cannot wait to be able to hear and watch the services we would normally attend online as they happen.