Saturday Evening

It is saturday about 7 pm and dad and I are pulling for the mavericks as we eat copeland’s Catfish Acadiana and Broccoli balls, we have to get our veggies and what better way than to mix a heart healthy veggie and cheeze and bacon and fry it, yeah that is what i am talking about. One thing i can say about my father that has always and always will be true: he is firm just and he knows how to eat and better yet where to eat. I know that is four J Taylor. He is getting stronger i am getting fatter. Dad took 33 feet of steps yesterday and not to be outdone today he walked 77 feet. Then he wheeled himself to bathroom door and walked with his walker to bathtub and got in and out and walked back to his wheelchair, which totaled about another 30 feet, plus the getting up and down. He has had some pain both boney and muscularly this evening. But that will only get worse the next week or two. Superman is ready though. He told his nurse today he was ready, to “bring it”. He is getting cooler by the second, i mean he is even tweeting. I ask him why they did not call it twiting but he just said it was tweeting. Anyway, i digress, he is getting stronger. He probably will be healthier when he leaves than before he got hit.

Mom on the other hand has had a step back. Not really back, but she has a mrsa infection in her blood to go with the two decubiti on her sacrum and head. She is breathing well and heart is doing good. She is still alert and even winked at me a bunch today. I think she loves me? She will move her feet still. But as we have said for a week this is the important time to pray HARD!! We must pray for her body to fight: to fight infection, to fight to gain strength and mobility, to fight to gain ability in speaking and swallowing. Pray that the techs will be diligent to turn mom every 2 hours so that she will not get another bedsore. I talked to friend from med school who was consulted to see mom for neurology. They thought she had a L sided ischemic stroke that was extending. The neurogist thought this was all old from the trauma and was from the contusion and inflamation around those contusions. He reassured my thought that she was a good rehab candidate and would probably have some residual disuse in her L arm and hand. Otherwise she should do well in rehab as we progress to that point. We will not really know what she is going to be able to do or not do until 2 years from now. Just keep praying for her.

Pray for logistics for insurance, the legal stuff, for transfer of mom to Orlando to Brain Center there, not only that we can get in but that we can get someone to fly her there. Pray for dad to have strength, peace, and joy as he gains strength and mobility. Pray for their nurses techs and doctors to take care of them as if they were their own and to communicate with jason and me.