Wednesday June 2, 2010

Well not a lot of changes today, Hank continues to get a little oxygen through his nose along with the feeding tube. He has to be able to swollow (right now we're at ice cubes) without sucking anything into his lungs. They were going to send a camera down the feeding tube to watch his esophagus but so far that hasn't happened. They also talked about moving him up to the 12th floor this morning but he didn't get physical therapy until about 3 so it was to late to move him. They had him stand (with help) twice but with the broken ribs and scapula it's pretty tough. That along with not standing much for almost 2 weeks he's pretty weak. So many things he'll need help with re-learning. Simple things like how to hold his toothbrush and eating utensils (when he gets real food) with the casts he'll go home with. They fixed him up with an aperatise for me to put on him and then stick toothbrush or whatever in so he can do it himself. It'll work just will, take some time to learn.
He also has a little confusion at times which they attribute to toxins still in his body that his kidneys have not cleaned out yet and also his pain meds. He'll start a conversation about did I see them shooting those birds, apparently 'they' put him right out in the middle because there wasn't much he could do. He said it was hilarious! He also asked me if I'd talked to Katy because she had some stuff for her kitchen for me to look at. Then today he was asking me if Delton and JP (Moore) were outside. And right after that he asked me if I'd talked to Angie to see how the little girl was. He said "I can't wait to hold her in my lap!". Made big tears roll down my face. Back to the kidneys, the urologists wants to hold off on doing any more dialysis because the toxin levels have slowed down and he's hoping Hanks kidneys will kick in even more and he doesn't want to put another line in again if he doesn't have to. So I'm praying he's right!
This place is so amazing. The respiratory guy Larry told me they brought in a sick young girl from Colorado today and he's flown to Wisconsin to bring someone here. So they come from all over!
Thanks and hope you all are having a great day!