Jan 23rd, Friday

Hello, the day started with a trip over to Sparks to Dr. McNulty's office. She is the Cardiologist that saw Marion every day the last week at Renown. Her office staff was wonderful about fitting me in before she started seeing her am patients. She was encouraging and said that the lack of strength from just being in bed for over a month and having suffered such a trauma would/could take a loooooong recovery time. She also was surprised to hear that no cardiologist was following him at this time, so the trip was excellent. She called their office located in the building where Marion is and made arrangements.a doctor came to see Marion at 12:45pm and I can not pronounce his name, but his smile more than makes up for his name, and he explained things in such detail that I wish I had had pen and paper to take notes. Suffice to say, that he plans to test Marion next week or so, when he has more strength, or sooner if problems arise. He explained to Marion that recovery would take hard work, and that he could expect to"hate his physical therapist at the end of each week, or he was not working hard enough". He said even bending his legs in bed is a beginning, so he was all for Marion getting his strength and lung capacity back, and heart capability.

Also, we had a call Weds from one of Marion's Temple friends Brother Munk, and he came to visit today. That brought many smiles to Marion. Clayne was saying that soon he and Marion will have worked together 9 years at the Temple and are very good friends. The hospital has a set of ear phones with a piece that the visitor speaks into so Marion can hear what they are saying. This works well, perhaps better than his hearing aids, and much less likely to get lost in a hospital bed! With the speaking valve on the trach, you can have a two way conversation, it was wonderful to watch.

Marion is getting back to himself. Today he asked where his car was, and then wanted to talk about gold. So our dear Marion is back to current times, and not back in the 30's or 40's as some head injury people can be.