Sunday, July 25, 2010 7:20 PM, MDT

This morning Bill was all bright eyed and perky.
The dialysis took nearly 6 liters of water out of his body yesterday. What a difference that made.

His hearing seems to be improving as well. We are not using the white board nearly as much. He his understanding alot of what we say.


 Bill was out of bed and in his wheelchair for nearly 5 hours. We had lunch outside again today (we ate he napped) and sat in the waterfall garden for quite some time.
We played a game of UNO and watched some television. It was pretty relaxed Sunday.

We are hopeful that we will be headed home soon.

Monday, July 26, 2010 7:20 PM, MDT

Bill is still on the right track. Standing and transferring from bed to wheelchair is getting easier. He sat in the wheelchair all day today and didn't want to get back to bed this afternoon. That is good that he doesn't want to be in bed. He had PT two times today and Bill welcomed it.

Our friends Deb and Dave are here to help us and to get the girls home as I will be flying with Bill. It  looks like we will be home this week. We are so happy to be headed home.
To all our neighbors: My parents, Max and Carolyn, are going to be at our house tomorrow. They are driving a big truck and camper with a boat. They will be there for a few days taking care of some things for us. They are on their way to a family reunion and will return next Monday. 

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:25 PM, MDT

Well, today was kind of a slow day. Bill slept for most of the day. He had dialysis this afternoon, which went rather smoothly.

Last night a doctor came in and looked at Bill after being off for 5 days. He said that Bill looked 100% better and thought that he would be walking and almost back to normal sooner than we think.

We have been accepted into the Northern Colorado Rehab Center, but have yet to have a time of departure. It should be either tomorrow or Thursday.

Making arrangements to go home was a fairly involved process. Thankfully, there was a social worker, Rachel who took care of all the arrangements for me. I wouldn't have had the first idea of where to start. I didn't know what to feel about going home except that it was time. I am pretty sure that the hospital in Great Falls would have been ready to discharge Bill to a long term acute care facility wether I needed to go home or not.

Our dear friends, Dave and Deb drove up to Great Falls to help drive the truck and the girls home. The hospital was talking about sending Bill and me home earlier, I told them that I would not leave the girls here alone so.... Luckily it worked out ok and Dave and Deb got here before I had to go.

Bill kept asking to see his truck, we took him out to the parking lot and showed him the truck and camper. Before Bill got sick we had broken a window in the camper. When he saw the damage he told me how he could fix it. I was sure that his brain damage wasn't anything that couldn't come back over time.

Bill was also worried about how the girls were getting home. He kept saying that they should leave before we did, he was being a good dad trying to take care of his girls.

When the rehab doctor told us his opinion of Bill's recovery we were very optimistic of his complete recovery. I just knew that everything was going to be ok.

The girls were starting to get ready to go home. Kayla was trying to think about going to college. She bought some things for her dorm room and was trying to get her head around the fact that she was moving to Grand Junction soon. I had told her that she had to go to college as planned no matter what. That is what her dad and I wanted. Being that Bill was doing so well I thought that she could go to school with an easy mind.

I was a little concerned about the location of the rehab center we were going to. It was 25 miles from home just outside of Loveland, Colorado. I was relieved though that we didn't have to go to Denver.