It is amazing to see Dad so animated when we come in. His mental and cognitive abilities seem to be perfectly normal. Obviously we are having problems reading his lips, but he laughs at very obscure references to things that happened in the past, or jokes about hospital food, etc. It's hard to remember that he is in ICU...even the nurse today said she didn't recognize him from last week, and had to ask if he was the same patient as she remembered.
Good news...the ventilator setting is on CPAP, which is only positive pressure and not forced breathing. This means Dad is doing ALL the breathing on his own! PRAISE GOD! They are saying they may remove him from the ventilator all together in about 2 days, and simply plug low oxygen into his tracheostomy. His white cell count continues to lower, and his kidneys are still doing about the same. He is going on dialysis as we speak, for his once-a-day treatment...hoping and praying his kidneys heal over the long-haul. He may also start physical therapy today. They plan on restarting blood thinners today as well.
Continue to pray for his safety, recovery, and protection from the blod clots. Also for his muscular restoration, as he is a bit frustrated his arms and legs don't work too well.
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David says "excellent". It takes an average of a week of rehab for every day over three that a person over 65 spends in bed. It will be a long haul but it sounds like Tim has been given another chance to recover and we are grateful. It will takes months to get back to square one from this but getting back now seems quite possible from what you relate. Tell him we love him. Elizabeth, we want you to know how grateful we are for your keeping us informed to this degree. It has enabled us to be in the room with him and supporting him through this.
David and Cherie Binns.
That is exactly what they mentioned to us, nice to hear the same information.
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