Monday

Doctors should not be able to take vacations... at least not when you need the results of a pending pathology report....

Apparently the pathology report is finalized, but the doctors able to discuss the results are still "out on vacation," or at least not able to answer a page. Hopefully more tomorrow.

We learned that the heart issue last week (which has been termed a type of "failure") was due to a complication that can be associated with the surgery. The medication he's on now is only necessary for him to take in the short term.

He should be moved from the ICU to a telemetry room sometime soon. This is not exactly a regular room, rather he will still be able to be monitored closely.

Today the physical and occupational therapists continued to work with him. They will continue to treat him in-hospital, so his stay at St. Joseph's/Barrow could go on for some time. They had him up and in a chair for about 2 hours, where he enjoyed reading his National Geographic.

The feeding tube in still in. The doctor said that it's taking some time for him to be able to swallow properly because his throat is all swollen from the length of time he was intibated with the ventilator. Once this gets better, he should be able to loose the tube.

The tremors in his hands seem to be improving. This, along with some other issues, will continue to improve as he recovers from the surgery and the brain swelling decreases.

The bacterial infections he's been suffering through seems to be clearing up. Huge relief.

And lastly, he's tired of mom and Jen starring at him all day. :)
- Darcy

PS- For fun, click on the link to the left for Postcards From Dallas.