Saturday June 5,2010

Hello from sunny, warm Utah! We've had a pretty busy day today. First off can you tell me why they have to wake you up at 3 a.m. to do a breathing treatment? I wake up to this guy using his outside voice, barking out orders to Hank to wake up and he sounds a little irritated. I had to tell him that he got a sleeping pill a little while ago and then he backed off, rude! Mostly it made me mad that he woke me up as well! Oh well. Hank started his day with physical therapy and he's getting a little cranky with the cute girls for rushing him in to movements and I think they are getting used to him because they still make him do what they ask. He did really well though, walked across the room and back and sat in a chair for quite a while. Then they took him down to get his neck x-rayed to see how the #5 & 6 were healing which he again had to roll onto a table and back off. No results on that yet, it's Saturday you know. Then they want to do another C Scan to check him for any infections because his white count is still elevated. This time their going to check his broken nose as well and I do think it's got to be infected just they way he breathes out of it and then last night I looked at him and he had a bloody nose. The nurse said it could be from the feeding tube being in there for so long which I have no doubt is not good. Then when they were helping him back into bed the feeding tube came out which in turn stopped the fluids going in for nourishment as well as the colored fluid they needed for the C Scan! This was all about 4ish. Well when the nurse called to get someone here to put it back in that department says they only work until 1 on Saturdays. Now the doctors have been called so see if they can compromise on something. So we sit now and wait. He would prefer not to have it put back in but the swallow specialist won't be back until Monday to test his esophagus again. So I'm thinking they have to get it back in soon or he's going to start getting hungry and ice chips won't cut it any more!

His buddies Bill, Mark and Orlin showed up this morning and came for a couple of visits today. Hank really appreciates it and it's nice to hear them tell stories and joke a bit! Now I'm headed out to dinner with them for a little break. So if any news more this evening I'll write when I get back from dinner.

Once again, thank you all so much for your support, love, prayers. It's what is helping me a lot as well as Hank. He hasn't wanted to look at the blog yet but I'm sure when we get home and settled it will happen. Until later.