Welcome to our Lotsa Helping Hands web site. This site provides a place for people to offer help and lend a hand. From Susie about her surgery: Just letting you know some details about my knee replacement surgery . IT is happening Monday morning at 7:30 a.m. at Washington Hospital in Fremont. I will be transferred next door after recovery room to the Institute of Joint Replacement/ I will be there 3 nights and 4 days. You can call phil at 821-3504 for an update. If for some reason there is no signal, you can call the Institute directly at 510-797-1111 and ask for me at the Institute of Joint Replacement They suggest if you want to visit to do so after 3:00 p.m. because the rest of the time I am in rehab, etc. You can park in Valet parking because of construction. It is free. I hope to go home on the 4th day. We will be staying at Bert's house in Montclair until Phil goes back to Mexico. You can call our cell phone or the land line is 338-3882 If you want to give Phil a hand, call him and you can help with food or dishes, or whatever else that might come up.. Dana and Phil are making a schedule to help when I get home and also when Phil goes back to Mexico. We hope for Phil to go back between 2 and 3 weeks after the surgery. Although Phil could use a little help, once he leaves, I will probably need help with shopping food, laundry, visits to physical therapy, some socializing, getting out and about, maybe even movies.I will be at Scotts house for two weeks when Phil leaves, and then I will go to Lee's house.Again Dana and Phil will be making a schedule for helping me out before and after Phil returns to Mexico. His plan is to stay between 2 and 3 weeks after the surgery, and after we see the doctor and he says that Phil can go. To help with the plan please call phil at 821-3504 or Dana at 409-0247. Thanks so much all of you in advance for being part of our team in whatever way that makes sense in your lives.