A friend of Mom and Dad's emailed me this picture. She rode her bike to church past their house and noticed that their lilacs were in bloom. I thought it was a cool picture and wanted to share it.
Sorry it has taken us all day to write a blog entry. Don and I covered last night from about 7 pm until 10 am this morning. Don took the majority of it and then I relieved him at about 4 am so he could get a couple houses of sleep before church. We went to church, had lunch and both of us took a nap!!
The night went well. Dad was having some pain control issues. He is really trying to get up more and walk around etc. and the pain medicine was not cutting the pain very well. When the medicine starts to wear off, his blood pressure and heart rate go up. At midnight, the nurse was very concerned and called the resident. Once the pain medicine starts working, it all goes back down again (which it did) but all of the excitement had everyone up and awake. It quieted down after that.
My shift was pretty quiet with just a few interruptions to take vitals and weigh him etc. until about 7:30 am. His medicine was due at 8:30 and again, his blood pressure was up. Dad ate a great breakfast and had a breathing treatment and then my family arrived at about 10 am. Don brought all of the kids and Mom up to see Dad. Then Mom took over and we went to church.
Mom talked to the surgeon about Dad's pain and he added another medicine. She also found out that Dad's procedure for his vocal chord will be tomorrow at about noon. The surgeon is talking about discharing him on either Tuesday or Wednesday. Dad is doing great. He is trying to get up more and build up his strength and endurance. They are trying to wean him off of the oxygen or to get it as low as possible. We are very thankful for his progress. We see improvements everyday! Thanks for praying.
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