Good evening everyone -
Dad had a super busy day today. We hardly got to see him because of all of his therapy sessions! Mom and I stopped by around lunch time, right when his new speech therapist was doing an evaluation on him. We walked into his room and saw him dressed and sitting in a wheel chair! That was a first! We left for a while so we wouldn't interfere with what the speech therapist was doing, and when we came back, Dad was back in bed. Apparently, he managed to "houdini" his way out of the wheelchair and seatbelt and shimmy his way down to the floor, which is where his nurses found him. He wasn't hurt, but they decided to get him back in bed so he could rest. He had been up and dressed and sitting in his chair since 7 am. That's a long time for him, since he had only been out of bed and in a chair a handful of times, and only for short periods of time while he was in the hospital.
We hung around and talked to Dad for a while, but he was clearly beat. So, we left him to get some rest. We doubt they got him up for his 4 PM session. Mom and I decided to take the evening off from visiting to let him get some good sleep. His nurses told us more than once that he did really well today. His eating was good, and he handled all the transferring and dressing well. It was just a lot of new stuff all at once, and it's going to take him a little while to acclimate.
This morning before we went to see Dad we picked up Sydney. She looks great, and will be back to her old self in no time!
BJ and Heather will be coming sometime tomorrow for the weekend. I think they'll be surprised to see how well Dad is doing!
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