Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:12 PM, MDT
We have moved to Fort Collins! Bill will be pretty busy with all his therapies but that is what is needed to get him home.
The doctor thinks he will only be there for 1-2 weeks. I agree. He is doing so amazing.
He is still getting dialysis 3 days a week, and his hearing is hit and miss but seems to be getting a little better.
Keep the prayers coming, he still has a long journey ahead and I believe that the prayers are being heard!
The doctor thinks he will only be there for 1-2 weeks. I agree. He is doing so amazing.
He is still getting dialysis 3 days a week, and his hearing is hit and miss but seems to be getting a little better.
Keep the prayers coming, he still has a long journey ahead and I believe that the prayers are being heard!
Just wanted to say thank you to all that attended last nights silent auction. Or who donated anything. It was a good night.
Good luck to all the hockey players today and tomorrow and have fun!
I am off today to take Kayla to college. Boy this is going to be tough one.
Her best friends family is going to help me get her there and help get her moved in. I am so proud of her she has been such a support for me during all this. I am going to miss her so much. But she can go to school with the knowledge that her dad is going to be ok. What an amazing young lady she is and I know she is going to be so successful in whatever she decides to do. One lesson this journey has taught us all is that WE CAN DO ANYTHING!
I will be back sometime Sunday. Bill's brother is here to take over for me. I hope they stay out of trouble! I think Bill has charmed the nursing staff at the hospital yet again. Every where we have been he has wrapped the staff around his little finger.
If you want to visit this weekend feel free but check with at the nurses station before going on down to his room. Remember too many people in his room can be a little much for him. Plus it is a very small room and it gets a little crowded. Today, Saturday he does a have therapy in the morning but his afternoon is fairly open. Sunday I know he has dialysis, but I think it may be a day off of therapies.
One big thing happened yesterday! Bill has been cleared to eat and drink whatever he wants. He passed his swallow test! I am so happy. It is a big step toward home.
Thanks for all the support everyone, it has meant so much to us.
Good luck to all the hockey players today and tomorrow and have fun!
I am off today to take Kayla to college. Boy this is going to be tough one.
Her best friends family is going to help me get her there and help get her moved in. I am so proud of her she has been such a support for me during all this. I am going to miss her so much. But she can go to school with the knowledge that her dad is going to be ok. What an amazing young lady she is and I know she is going to be so successful in whatever she decides to do. One lesson this journey has taught us all is that WE CAN DO ANYTHING!
I will be back sometime Sunday. Bill's brother is here to take over for me. I hope they stay out of trouble! I think Bill has charmed the nursing staff at the hospital yet again. Every where we have been he has wrapped the staff around his little finger.
If you want to visit this weekend feel free but check with at the nurses station before going on down to his room. Remember too many people in his room can be a little much for him. Plus it is a very small room and it gets a little crowded. Today, Saturday he does a have therapy in the morning but his afternoon is fairly open. Sunday I know he has dialysis, but I think it may be a day off of therapies.
One big thing happened yesterday! Bill has been cleared to eat and drink whatever he wants. He passed his swallow test! I am so happy. It is a big step toward home.
Thanks for all the support everyone, it has meant so much to us.
I got Kayla off to school, it was tough one for me.
Bill had a fairly uneventful time while I was gone. Tom did a good job taking care of him for me. Bill had Sunday off from therapy and probably needed the rest. Today it is back to work for him.
Jalyn is taking her driving test today. Hope it goes well.
This is so hard for me to read these post and think about all this. I just keep thinking about the fact that Bill was suppose to be OK. The doctor came to him and told him 1-2 weeks was all that he needed and he could go home. Bill was up to the task. When he had therapy he did more than what was asked of him. He was such a hard worker. I was so proud of him. I was excited for him.
Bill had a fairly uneventful time while I was gone. Tom did a good job taking care of him for me. Bill had Sunday off from therapy and probably needed the rest. Today it is back to work for him.
Jalyn is taking her driving test today. Hope it goes well.
This is so hard for me to read these post and think about all this. I just keep thinking about the fact that Bill was suppose to be OK. The doctor came to him and told him 1-2 weeks was all that he needed and he could go home. Bill was up to the task. When he had therapy he did more than what was asked of him. He was such a hard worker. I was so proud of him. I was excited for him.
Being cleared to eat was a big thing! It was one of the goals to going home. He was having a hard time with it however, nothing tasted right to him and he wasn't hungry. Bill was still getting nightly tube feedings so his appetite was not so good. He told the nurse that he didn't want the tube feedings any more. Apparently stopping the feedings are not up to the patient, because they would not stop the feedings. The reasoning was he wasn't eating enough calories to support his needs. I wasn't too worried about it thinking when we got home we would not have the tube feedings and he would get hungry and everything would take care of it self.
Bill was having episodes of vomiting. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. We could not pin point a pattern or reason for it. It was a concern for all, the nurses seemed to be the most concerned. It continued to be an issue the entire time. We never did figure out what was causing it. Maybe it was the result of some strokes? We will never know.
Taking Kayla to college was so emotional. I was worried about Bill and I was taking my oldest child off to her first year of college. This was suppose to be a family affair. Kayla was suppose to have both her parents helping her move in to her dorm. Her dad was suppose to be there too. Instead it was her best friend's dad. Don't get me wrong the family that helped me was great and I am so thankful that they helped us. Kerry is so funny and had us laughing the entire time. His sister also put us up in her house and fed us. Even so I was in tears when I left Kayla. I had such mixed emotions. I really wanted to get back to Bill and I didn't want to leave my baby all alone. I am not exactly sure how I got through that couple of days. I guess it was that Bill was going to be ok and that I would bring him over to visit when he was up to it.
Thank goodness for Tom, Bill's brother. I love him. He came to stay with Bill so I could leave and not worry too much. I also think that Tom's wife is amazing! How many women would be so willing to loan her husband to another woman? She is an angel and I love her too.
Monday turned out to be the beginning of a new nightmare. Only I didn't know it then.(that was probably a good thing)
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