i’m here in the hospital again with dad.
writing “bring it on” continues to curse me – late wednesday, i came down with a bad cold. seriously? good grief. i’ve been taking massive amount of healing things, and don’t feel so bad today.
dad continues to improve pretty dramatically, really, considering that he was frail to begin with. but he’s also SO VERY STRONG. today a nurse was re-dressing his incision and i looked at it and did not faint or throw up, by some miracle, because it’s just held together in a coupla places with these big staple-kinda things and you can see all his insides right there and how is that even possible, that he’s going to just heal up from that?
i feel more encouraged now about his prognosis. before i came here today amy called me – she’d spent the night here last night, slept hardly at all, but she had to give me a very long lecture about how i need to insist that he NEEDS THAT INTUBATION TUBE OUTTA THERE. she explained how the respiratory therapist today is more passive, as opposed to the more aggressive ones yesterday and the day before, who seemed to think he could be extabated any time. and i had to tell all the nurses and doctors and anybody who walked into the room or down the hall that WE KNOW HE NEEDS TO BE EXTABATED.
whew.
lucky for me, when i got here, the nurse said that the plan is to EXTABATE HIM TOMORROW. dodged that bullet, plus i’m pretty amazed they’re doing that already.
another doctor came in later and said that it could be 24 hours or more before he goes to a regular room. really? seriously??? it seems that he’s not ready for a regular room because of the GAPING HOLE IN HIS STOMACH.
but apparently, not such a big deal.
well, a pretty big deal. but something that’s not so bad.
so, today, things are not so bad, a nice way for things to be.
i get to go home pretty soon and rest some more.
oh, and mollie report: well, the good news is they didn’t find anymore cytoblasts. but she’s not responding to the chemo as quickly as they’d hoped, but on wednesday they give her a big strong dose of a different chemo drug, and then we wait and see, wait and see, wait and see about everything.
ok then,
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