6/25/2010 7:30pm

I apologise to all you followers who have been waiting since Father's Day for an update, but there hasn't been to much to update you on. Dad has been improving steadily everyday. He does occupational, speech, and physical therapies twice a day Monday thru Saturday, and rests on Sundays. Monday Mom, Dad, and I are meeting with all of Dad's therapists at the same time to discuss his progress and learn the details of his continued therapy once he is released to go home. They have set his release date for Thursday July 1st!!!! All functions seem to have returned to normal for the most part. His speech is normal, his memory has improved, and other than some balance issues he's fine physically. We are so blessed that he has come through as well as he has considering where we were two weeks ago. Thank you again for all your prayers and support for our family during this time.

6/20/2010 5:15pm

Happy Father's Day to the most amazing, special, wonderful, loving, caring, sweet, goofy, handsome, Dad on the planet. We are so truly blessed to be able to celebrate this day with you!

Day 4 on the rehab floor has been pretty quiet. Sunday's here are a day of rest no therapy for Dad today. The 3 of us kids, mom and Jeremy's wife Heather were all here to visit dad at the same time today so we took him for a little trip down to the cafeteria, and outside for a short walk and some fresh air. It was a nice break from the inside of a hospital for all of us. Dad hasn't had a breath of fresh air for 20 days until today! Back to the daily grind tomorrow morning. Dad's day begins at 8am with occupational therapy. He washes and dresses himself under the supervision of his therapist. Then he moves on to speech, and physical therapies. He gets a breack mid morning then back for round 2 of all three therapies from 1-2:30. After 2:30 he is a free man (so to speak.)

Dad loves to have visitors but please refrain from coming up until after 3pm when his therapies are finished for the day. He's in room 1403... take the south elevators to the 4th floor and come around the circle to the left.

6/18/2010 9:30am

They moved dad to the rehabilitation floor of Parkview Hospital yesterday evening. He will begin intense physical, occupational, and speech therapies this morning. He tried to argue with the admittance nurse that he was well enough to go home and they should give his bed to someone who was worse off and really "needs" the therapies. Good try Dad but your not going home yet!

6/16/2010 9:45pm

Dad has been getting a little stronger each day. His memory, speech, and recognition are improving and he is ornery as ever! He went for speech therapy yesterday and started physical therapy today. His nurses even took him for a short walk down the hallway. He was given a chewing test today and is able to eat anything he wants now!!! The Dr. is planning to move him to the in-patient rehabilitation floor tomorrow. He will be there for several weeks until they feel his well enough to go home. If he continues to improve at the rate he has been he could be home in as little as two weeks. Please continue to pray for his mental health and continued improvement. Thank you all so much for the support you've given us.

6/14/2010 5:00pm

And the good news keeps on coming! Dad's been moved from the ICU to a regular room on the neuro floor. The neurologist thinks things are progressing fairly well at this point, and that he will do ok without the constant supervision. He is staying awake for longer periods and conversation is flowing a little easier for him. They did a swallow study this afternoon and determined he could handle a pureed diet of regular foods. He is in room 531 bed 2.

6/12/2010 8:00am

We got woken up at 4 o'clock this morning by dad's nurse who informed us that he woke up and decided to pull out the ventilator tubes in his throat and the feeding tube in his nose all by himself. When she went in to see what was going on he called her "Grandma." She said, "No, I'm still your nurse, I'm not old enough to be your Grandma." He was able to complete commands she gave him and when he squeezed her hands with each of his, his grip was equally strong on both sides. He asked her a few questions like, "What are you doing?" and "What do you want?" She said he is confused and has some difficulty comprehending but is awake for longer periods and is taking in full sentences. God has granted us a miracle!!!

6/11/2010 3:30pm

DAD WOKE UP!!! The neurologist came in a couple of hours ago and was expressing her concern that he had not yet opened his eyes and about that time his eyelids popped open. When she asked him to squeeze her hand he did and when she asked him to let go and he did. Shortly after he went back to sleep. She said this was definatly a good sign and a step in the right direction, but we are in no way out of the woods and we still don't know what kind of brain damage there is gonna be. They still have the tubes down his throat in case he needs help breathing so we don't know how much his speech has been affected. We are praying for more and more progress as the days go by. Please continue to keep him in your prayers as he has a long road ahead of him.