We were very happy to have game night this week because Mark was recovering from a bout of food poisoning from Saturday. Fortunately the on call doctor gave us wonderful advice and Mark recovered in just two days. The regiment went something like:

- one tablespoon of water per hour (or half hour) for the first three hours

- one glass of water and crackers for the next three hours

- crackers, toast and broth for the next three hours

Our mistake was to let Mark drink all of the water that he wanted to; and knowing Mark he can drink a large amount of water. The doctor said that the system needs to stabilize and then recover in small doses. Just after those nine hours Mark was doing much better!

So for games on Tuesday we had Kathleen and Matt over to play Trivial Pursuit for 1990’s and a round of Mark’s African violets game. In the first game we all learned that a historian will really enjoy Trivial Pursuit- our resident historian is Matt and he won rather quickly. The latter game is one that Mark has been tweaking for almost a year now- it is very playable and enjoyable in its current state and we all enjoyed the challenge.