I spoke with Connie this afternoon at the Wesley Health and Rehabilitation Center and she said the staff there had just held a meeting and she was coming home to the Mansion Assisted Care Facility next Tuesday, August 29th.

This is wonderful news, two weeks ago she could not walk and was struggling to breathe and eat, but she says the physical therapy staff at Wesley has been wonderful and she is walking every day and feel more and more comfortable.

She is well enough to come back to the Mansion, where the staff there is eager to help her with her continuing rehabilitation. To live at the Mansion, the residents have to be mobile, either on foot or in a wheelchair and she is definitely ready to come home, say the doctors there.

The Mansion has kept her room ready and Red goes in to check on it every time we go to the Mansion. Red and i will try and get to Wesley one more time before she gets home. Connie said she misses the residents and staff, and she misses Red and Maria. She said she is eager to work together with Maria on a fiber project, the two of them haven’t quite figured out which one.

Red has worked with Connie to get her up and walking and we will continue that work, if the doctors and staff approve. This is a great triumph for Connie, whose will is strong and mind is sharp and clear. She really loves being at the Mansion and worked hard every day to get back.

Very glad to report this good news. And thanks for the cartons of books she received while in rehab, they helped her get through each day. She says she loves you all. It is appropriate to  send flowers to greet Connie on her return, but her room is small, so the flowers ought to be small, the overflow will be shared with the other residents, or displayed around the Mansion, but she will see all of them and your cards.

It is also fine to send her cards letters, photos and  messages (she has enough books and yarn), she will be home on the 29th.

You can send messages or cards to Connie, C/O The Mansion, 11 S. Union Avenue, Cambridge, N.Y. She reads every one and I can testify that your stories and love and photos and good words have boosted her through some very dark and difficult days.

Connie is grateful to your support, and so am I. I think we all became family for Connie, something she really lives for every day and cares about. The Army Of Good is wracking up victory after victory, and appears quite unstoppable.