Jan 11th

Hello, this has been a beautiful, bright Sunday day. Marion's kids were up from San Jose this week-end. Today about 1pm, Karen and Janice from Reno and then the San Jose contingent-Joan and Craig were in to see him, plus Jim arrived just as they were about to head back to SJ, so we had a full house! The nurses have been lenient as the group had traveled, plus we kept the "party" fairly quiet.

While his eyes were not their shiny, sparkly usual, they were open occasionally today. He did respond weakly to the nurses' requests to squeeze her hand, or thumbs up, but basically it was a quiet day, especially as he had a bit of medicine when he went down for a brain CT scan in the morning and would not lay still. The MRI was called off when it was realized that he has a pacemaker. The CT showed improvement in the bleed sites, so there is no real answer as to why he has the lethargy when he is taken off the ventilator.

The consents were signed today for 'tracheostomy' and 'placement of laparoscopic gastrostomy tube' (big words), so when they can fit him on the surgery schedule and feel he is up to the surgery, off he will go.

Here's hoping tomorrow brings improvement, thank you again for all the support and prayers, love, Sue