Life is grand in the new room. The heliport for the Mayo Lifeline helicopters is right above Chris's room (several floors above). We can watch the helicopters take off and land. Yesterday, Chris was trying to convince Julie, one of the flight nurses in the ICU, to work out a way to give him a ride in the helicopter. She suggested she have the pilot "hover" outside his window and then he could jump aboard-well, she did not get a call so no luck on the ride! We are getting ready to watch the UK Basketball game-Chris is awake enough tonight-he has already warned the nurse that his numbers may jump if is is an exciting game-we will see-it may need to be turned off if he doesn't behave himself! Chris has walked a bit today and has been up in the chair most of the day. Tomorrow he will have the cardioversion-hopefully early in the morning and hopefully it will be his last procedure-Dr. Wan told us it would be! We are looking forward to returning to the Bluegrass. Take Care. Mary Jo

Just a note: Chris behaved during the game but unfortunately the CATS couldn't pull out a win. An ICU nurse stopped by to watch a bit of the game with us-she is from Lexington, Ky (graduate of Lafayette H.S. )and a UK graduate. she is here to get work experience. It was fun talking to someone new from"home." MJ