Today, Thursday November 5th brings changes but nothing to lead us to his progress. Again he looked a lot better today. However, today he does not squeeze your hand when you ask. He will squeeze your hand if you put your hand in his but this is just a reflex. It's like if you would put something in a babies hand they would grasp it. Dad doesn't squeeze the doctors or ours when you ask him. He also doesn't open his eyes and look around like yesterday. This could be due to the pain medication they have him on.
The concern right now is that he has a lot of fluid in his lungs and he will not cough. All day today the nurse and respiratory therapist worked on getting some of the fluids out. They put a wrap around him that shook his lungs to help loosen the phlegm and then tried to suck it out but whenever they put the tube in his mouth he would bite down. This was about a 10 min treatment they will continue to use on Dad. Finally, about 3 hours later he coughed and the nurse was able to suck out a lot of fluid.
All day they would wait until Dads pain medication would wear off to see what his reactions were. As he would gain more consciousness he would move around quite a bit and groan. This is good, but still doesn't tell us much. Personally, I would rather hear him moaning and fighting the nurses then to just be laying there. It's so Dad to be fighting the nurses. I can just hear him saying "I can do this myself!"
Dad now has one on one care which means that a tech is with him 24 hours a day, he is never alone. Our tech today, Katie, was awesome and said that Dad had a great energy about him and he just "seems like a really neat guy." She also told us earlier it sounded like he tried to say "mother." Knowing Dad it was probably the cuss word he didn't get out after hitting his head. Mother F** was always his favorite cuss word when he would hit his head!! Perhaps, it wasn't that at all and Rachel (his mom) is there helping him through this. Personally I know she and Ralph (his dad) are there.
Also, yesterday evening Russ and his Dad, Van, came and administered a blessing to Dad. Thank you so much again to Russ for all his help. Then today, we had Jean, the Minister from the Bountiful Community Church, come and give Dad a pray of healing. Both blessings and prayers were very spiritual and soulful and I felt that there was a very healing and uplifting energy there.
Who knows what day three will bring but Dad is a very determined individual and I know and can see and feel that he is fighting and working hard to heal.
Kim and Family, I seriously am so upset that this has happened to such a great family. The love that you have for each other has always been apparent to me and it will be what gets you through this huge bump in the road. I cannot think of a finer person that Jim. I will continue to pray for you, but seriously if there is anything I mean anything that you think of that you need please call. A person fells so numb and helpless at a time like this. Kim remember to drink your water and try to take a quiet moment or two to youself to breathe deeply and call upon the positive energy that can be so healing. Love you so much.
ReplyDeleteJim would be the first one to tell us not to count him out in this situation. You cannot be a Realtor for as long as he has without being able to take some very hard punches. I saw Jim do this over and over again. He would say, with passion, "Mother!", then bite his lower lip as though he was going to say the next word. I never heard him say it. Then he would laugh. Jim faces life on life's terms. He doesn't always like it, but he deals with it and keeps on going. This is who he is...at his core.. I have no doubt that he isn't giving up and neither should we. We love you, Jim! May our love and prayers strengthen you in your fight to return to us!
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