Monday, February 28th

I had a better night. I made Elizabeth sleep next to Emily on the floor, she was too wiggly and was moving the bed too much. She also had awesomely bad gas! I don't know what she had been eating. Only to the bathroom four times and after every trip I ate a quarter of a banana and tried to drink a lot of water.

I woke in the morning feeling weak but a bit more energetic. I slowly cleaned up the room. Mom brought me some scrambled eggs and toast, juice and tea. I ate about a tablespoon of the eggs and about three small bites of the toast. I drank most of the tea and about half the juice. I would have probably drank all the juice but Elizabeth spilled half of it. I put away all the laundry Mom had kindly washed for us, got dressed in nice clean clothes and took my dishes downstairs. I got a big cheer when they saw me. It was nice being downstairs. I said hello to Doug and Jan Jonas who had arrived yesterday and then I got the girls to work on their homework, sorely neglected the past couple days. Dad's voice is almost gone. I spent the rest of the morning and some of the afternoon updating this. My appetite is returning and what I am eating is not knotting up my gut and then being immediately ejected anymore. I told people that yesterday I was a three, this morning I was a 6 and now I am up to a 7. Derek, Kacie, Debbie and Aundine are heading up the Pa and I might try to email this to you. I have to format the photos. Talk to you later.

Indeed, at last telephone report, Dawn was an "8". It's nice to travel (according to some), but it isn't much fun being sick far from home. I'm happy Dawn's feeling better.