Day Forty Three

9:31AM
Don just rested most of evening. Somewhere around 7:00 he had a piece of cake and some milk. He got choked on the milk and it caused some issues. Don was very upset. It was already dark and we had to leave the lights on the rest of the night - actually they are still on. He slept upright all night. The door and the curtain in the room had to be open and the TV was on all night too. Don has been real quite since we arrived at the hospital. I know that he is still having issues from what happened in ICU.

The ortho doctor came in a little after 5:00 this morning. He said if the drain tubes and the wound vac doesn't put out a whole lot of drainage today and tonight Don could get discharged back to Rehab tomorrow. Dr. Karunaker (ortho surgeon) said they same thing with the added stipulation that we had to wait to see what the cultures turned up. Please pray that there are no other infections anywhere in Don's body. Don had been complaining after surgery and through the night that his left hand was hurting since they had changed the cast just before surgery yesterday. The casting department came back and loosened it up and immediately the pain went away. They wrapped it again and it seems to be doing fine. We also asked Dr. K about the range of motion on his left leg and he said there was no limits on range of motion on his leg on no weight bearing at all. His right arm still has about a week before they would recommend weight bearing but that he should be able to push off with his right arm but not to put weight on it. He said when Don was back at rehab they should not have to use the Hoyer Lift. He also said that he would like to see Don sitting in a chair here in the room at the hospital. The nurse just popped in to say that OT was scheduled to come in today and work with his arms. She said that she would check to see if PT would be able to come in and get him up in a chair. They added the antibiotic from Rehab to his medicines here so that is 3 antibiotics he is on. Please just pray that there is no more infection in his body anywhere.