Jan 5th, Exciting Day!

Marion was bright eyed when ever he was awake today. He was able to answer questions with a nod quite often, and all 40 staples were removed from his head!! Hooray, on the road to recovery! He is still on the ventilator, but having oxygen, and not having the machine breathing for him during the day, not even after almost a half/hour of physical therapy. It left him very tired, but they did not have to have the machine breathe for him as they did last week, another milestone passed. About 8:45pm this evening we both got very frustrated as his tried to spell something out for me. ICU has a plastic sheet with letters, but his fingers are not nimble enough yet to point to a single letter. So I stopped at Wal-Mart on the way home and while unable to get magnetic letters, did get poster board and a vinyl type, larger letters to try to allow him to spell out his wishes. As I said, a red letter day. He has awaken so much just from Sat, it just makes me smile. He even was able to gesture to ask me to get the RT person to have her suction out his vent tube, not pleasant, but necessary. Hope to have as much good news to report tomorrow. Thank you for all the good thoughts and prayers, love, Sue