Tomorrow, sunday the 25th, we are all going to coming back home.  The only question is, will he make it ( Read more... )

"Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

~ Morrie Schwartz

This quote is from Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom.  A few days ago, my dad said to my brother and me that if we read it, we'd have a good idea of what he was going ( Read more... )

Physically, on a strength level, he's getting weaker.  He's been doing nothing but laying in bed all the time, so he's lost a lot of weight.  He is eating, but food doesn't always appeal to him. Feeding him takes a while, serving in small bites and liquid foods.  Occasionally, he finishes all his food, but most often, he has about half.  But this ( Read more... )

Today was a very good day. The problem with the blood in the urine was just a catheter complication and is no longer an issue. And when we met w/ his physicians this morning we tinkered with his medication doses slightly to offer him a little extra comfort. Dad was doing very well today, able to think relatively clearly and articulate as well as he ( Read more... )

My dad is still that wonderfully stubborn old man.  He's fighting, and for a while now, he leveled out, making him perfectly coherent.  He's drugged up to keep the pain down, so it takes him a bit longer to formulate what he's going to say, but he's none the less aware.  He's smiling, cracking little jokes, and wanted ( Read more... )

From what my family tells me, his day was tiring, but not too bad.  His back is none too happy about being bedridden for so long, so they had to give him some pain medication and muscle relaxers for it.  They made him drowsy, but better.

He's pretty much leveled out for the time being.  His vitals are stable and he is able to talk to us some.  He ( Read more... )

( Updates on my Dad )

( Updates on my Dad )

We're all very scared.  Apparently he has a massive headache and threw up (very worryiome).  He got doped up on morphene and is going down for another CT scan.

more later...we're off.

~ Robin

( Updates on my Dad )