Sunday June 6, 2010

First off I'd like to thank Bill, Mark & Orlin for the great dinner and wonderful wine I had last night. We went to a great restaurant downtown SL called The New Yorker. It's in the basement of a old hotel dating back to 1906. It was a great meal with good friends even though the cab ride there made us all think we could end up back at the hospital along side Hank! 80 miles an hour and no seat belts along with almost side swiping a truck. Needless to say we used a different company coming back. I got back to Hank's room about 10:00 and he still didn't have his feeding tube so that meant no night time meds, no sleeping pill and no sleep for us. I think I finally dozed off about 1:30 only to wake up about every hour with Hank. He finally asked the nurse for a shower about 5:30. He gets so sore just laying and was ready to get out of bed. Of course it was a dry shower because of his hands and air vac on his right knee with a hole. I headed to the hotel about 7:00 and got back around 10:00 and the busy day started!
Kidney doc came in and said Hank's levels are improving and doing great! Then they took him down to put his feeding tube back in. About the time he got back from that his hand doc came in and put a cast on his right hand and showed all of us the x-rays of his thumbs. They'll probably take the bandage off his left thumb in the next day or so and he'll just have a brace on that he can remove to shower. Doc said their both healing well! Then about the time that was finished they took him down for the C Scan. We probably won't know those results until tomorrow. While he was doing that somehow they pulled out his IV for antibiotics so then they had to call a team to put a pick line in his arm. He had one on his chest from the beginning but when they change floors they have to take it out. They'll use that line longer because it has less chance for getting infection. THEN when that was done in came physical therapy to take him for a walk. I helped him a little to sit up and then we gathered all his tubes and oxygen tank (again he is using minimal amount) and went for a walk about. He walked halfway around the 11th floor and tomorrow we plan on going all the way. He is so much stronger just in one day it's amazing! Hopefully tomorrow or Tuesday we'll get to go to 12th floor to start rehab!
Tomorrow will be an exciting day because Angie is bringing the little ones down along with Emily to see Papa. He's really excited about that and is telling everyone! They'll stay thru Thursday. Can't wait to see them!
That's about it for today. We are just settling in to watch the Celtics & Laker game. Well Hank is napping/watching. He looks pretty cozy. We keep reminding the nurse to make sure the sleeping pill is on order so hopefully that happens. Our love & prayers to you all! We are so blessed with wonderful family and friends!