Morning ALL, is it Thursday already this week!!??
Ray is doing GREAT! Wednesday was a good day for him. NO fevers, he had spiked a slight fever Mon and Tues AM but then it went away during the day. Yesterday though he had NONE. His blood cultures came back yesterday and no infection had showed up so that was good. They felt it could have been from some of the central lines he still had in from surgery so all of those are out now. He just has two drains coming from his belly from surgery and one IV line in....WOW what a difference a week makes! The surgeon did say the pathology report came back from Sundays surgery, they went ahead and did a biopsy of the liver while they were in there, NO signs of rejection....PRAISES to that!
Finally about 5:00pm Ray was moved to the step down room, they have been trying to move him for 3 days but there was "no room at the inn". He was able to eat "normal" food yesterday. He doesn't have a lot of an appetitie and it takes a LONG time to eat but he is trying. He knows how important it is to get that protein and nutrients in his body and he so wants to com to the apartment and doesn't want a feeding tube so he is trying. and had a shower for the first time last night about 9:00. Let me tell you I don't know who was more exhausted from the shower Ray or me, between getting everything ready to shower, helping him shower, scrubbing him after a week of NO shower, helping him wash his hair and then drying him off I was just as tired as he was from doing all that! BUT he tolerated standing that long really well and felt SO MUCH better afterwards. It is funny how such a small simple task becomes so difficult after a week and how good a shower felt to him.
He walked again yesterday, more than the day before and is walking with NO walker.
He had LOTS of visits yesterday: our friend Deborah spent the day and night and KEPT us laughing...well Ray tried not too because it hurt!! But by the end of the evening he couldn't help it anymore. Two Ecolab friends came to visit-Shane and Mike, his boss John came for a visit and his Aunt Gail. It was a good day.
I am going home today after lunch to stay the afternoon andnight AT HOME!! YIPPEE!! Jackson has his "goat show" tonight for his 4H goat camp so I am glad I will get to see that and meet our goat from this year "MIKE" who evidentally is big, a tad lazy and gets "angry" with the other goats Jackson has told me! Oh LORD! Pray that Mike behaves at the goat show tonight!!
THANKS to Deborah for making the drive and spending the day and night with me. We had some GOOD LAUGHs and the stop at TGIFridays on the way home at 10:30 was EVEN better!! I love you my dear, dear friend!
I will update again and hope the next one will be to tell you Ray is coming to the SUMMER HOME!! :)
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