Physical Torture

Nancy was so sweet to keep Ben for a few hours today and to feed me lunch, too! Ben had lots of fun playing with Jack and I'm sure had a blast with all of his toys. He was tuckered out and fell asleep on the short ride home.

Paul had 4 hrs of dialysis this morning, so I didn't get to come in until just after 2. Apparently, I was a little late because Paul actually called me to see where I was. :) The nurses threatened him with a feeding tube if he didn't start eating something this morning, so now he's drinking pretty well. He's had a couple apple juice/protein drinks and an Ensure-like nutrient drink formulated for dialysis patients. The PT (which stands for Physical Torture according to Uly, arguably Paul's favorite night nurse) girls came in this afternoon and got him moving a bit. They did some leg exercises with him and then got him sitting up on the side of the bed for a few minutes. We're still not getting him standing yet until he's off the Levophed completely. He's down to 5 mcg/min (he was at 14 at one point), so that's slowly coming down. Paul's CK numbers are down again, to 38,000 - still making progress there. Dr. Thomas said his creatinine numbers are higher, I didn't get an exact number, but they'll continue to work on dialyzing that out. I would guess that it would be higher since he didn't get dialysis yesterday.

Suzie came by to visit and brought me a Chick-fil-A milkshake. Thank you Suzie!!! I'm trying to drink it slowly and quietly because I'm sure Paul would love one right about now. I think that will be one of our first stops once we get out of here!