Tuesday, 5/14/13 @ 11:00 am
We have some good news!
Today when the trauma team came by to see Samuel, they said he was
starting to look too good to remain in Shock-Trauma ICU!!! He has a lot of thing that have to happen
before they will move him, so they said it probably won’t be today, but
soon. They are going to continue his TPN
lipids until tonight and then they will remove his central line. They already removed two of his IVs this
morning. They are going to start cutting
back his oxygen today. He is making a
lot of progress, praise the Lord!!! He
is even starting to get a little testy when you ask him questions. They tell me that is a good sign…men get
cranky and women have a Revlon recovery and start caring what they look
like. So, it sounds like we are on
track.
The social worker said she would come by last week to talk
about what we would be looking at long term. That was the day Samuel went back to surgery,
so she never came back to talk to me. I am
not sure how all this works, but it doesn’t sound like he will leave the
hospital and come straight home. They
said it will take a lot of therapy and rehab to get him strong and healthy
again. The physical therapy team already
works with him each day, but it is mainly moving his legs in the bed and
helping him use the walker to transfer from the bed to a chair. They are also the people who put him in the
spine brace each day.
X-ray took pictures of his leg today to put him in a real
cast now that the swelling is going down.
As long as nothing has shifted, he won’t need any surgery on his
leg. It’s not even noon yet and we have
already received a lot of good news today.
God is answering our prayers and we are so thankful He has! Blessings!
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