Daily Archives: November 20, 2012

Update

I was there from about 10:30 last night to noon today. His bed had been moved to be flat by the time I had got there last night. He slept decent from about 4 to 8 this morning. Uncomfortable and restless before that.

He is still having the same trouble talking and says his right arm/hand/leg are not quite normal. His right hand had less coordination as he ate a bowl of cereal and a cinnamon roll. He must eat right handed as he wanted to do that, but switched at times when having trouble.

He sat up and took his oxygen off while he ate, which was about 20 or 30 minutes without any noticeable change in his abilities. The nurse tweaked his blood pressure meds down slightly to bring his pressure down a bit, but his pressure went down to normal. This was at about the same time he ate sitting up and I didn’t notice any difference in abilities.

He is very bored and is worried about going stir crazy as he described it, especially if they decide that he has to lay flat on his back even longer than Thursday. And he is pretty worried about the future as far
as the uncertainty of whether he will have another stroke or not, and the doctors not knowing, etc.