Paul is scheduled to move up to the rehab unit in the morning. Hooray! He did about the same with things today. He walked around the unit today then sat up in the chair for an hour. He's been eating a bit better, but he has to take meds for his kidneys (4 horse-pills, every 4 hours) before food make him nauseous, so then he gets nausea medicine... It's been an interesting challenge to get the sequence of meds right so he can still eat without vomiting...
Dr. Thomas took away his Percocet today. He has always been sensitive to Percocet; it works great on the pain, but it puts him to sleep pretty quickly. He'll only have Tylenol now since his level of pain has decreased and we need him to be conscious for more of the day.
The move to rehab should be good tomorrow. He'll have 3 hrs of dedicated time every day where they'll do Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy with him. I'm not sure yet what all that will involve, but hopefully it will give him a good start to getting out of there. Our insurance has only approved rehab for 3 days, so I expect he'll get sent home Friday or Saturday. They said they will request more time if he needs it, but I'm hopeful that he won't need more than 3 days. He's already getting around well enough to handle himself with the help of a walker, we just need to make sure he can get in and out of the car and up the 2 1/2 steps to our front door. :)
Visiting hours will get squirrely again. I think they are only 4:30-9:30pm on weekdays. Also, he's on a MWF dialysis schedule and with PT in the mornings, he'll be going to dialysis in the evenings. So, visiting may be difficult tomorrow and Friday. I'll post tomorrow once we know the schedule a little better and when we know his room number in case anyone wants to stop by.
Again, thanks for all the prayers. We are overwhelmed by them all; we even have strangers (albeit from the hospital chaplain's office, but strangers nonetheless...) stopping by to pray with Paul. Keep 'em coming, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel!!!
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Catching up... much has happened in the last few days towards Paul's recovery I see. Sucks that he had to have that catheter re-installed, but sounds like that didn't mess up progress. Hope you got into rehab floor today. Guess I will look for that update tomorrow. Please send Paul my best wishes.
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