Wednesday

I am home with my family tonight, Mom is on the night shift.  


This will be a short post, but I wanted you all to know Dad had a pretty good day.  It started off rough, with his sleep being interrupted, but then, after a little bit more rest, he was able to strap his boots on, and head out into all the various forms of therapy.  


It truly takes all his energy, to go from resting, to breathing treatments and exercises, to PT, to lunch, to more therapy (Occupational T, and Speech T), etc.  He pretty much goes non-stop until the early evening.  The good news is, that he seemed to have a renewed sense of spirit today, a determination, a desire to start moving toward his goals.  Praise the Lord for filling him today.


He had very low oxygen levels today, which made him extra "out of breath", but they gave him supplemental oxygen this afternoon, and will continue to do so, so that will hopefully help him feel better.


We are continuing to ask for no visitors at this time.  I talked about this with Dad today, and asked him what he wanted.  We know people energize Dad, and he is so blessed to have each of you who care for him, and want to come by and just cheer him on.  But Dad did say, that saying even a few extra words to visitors, is so draining on his energy levels, that he wishes to hold off for now, so he can get over this hump of intense therapy.  Thank you for wanting to come by and love on him, but thank you also for understanding during this difficult time of energy conservation.  We welcome any notes, old stories, prayers, whatever you want to share here, or via my email, and we will read them to dad.  I sat and read to him so many of the comments left by you on this blog, as well as my face book page, and he couldn't believe how many people cared and remembered him.


Again, thank you for loving our family.
In Him,
JJ