March 8 & 9

Day24 & 25
I typed in "booger" instead of Blogger! Hmmm.. quite insightful, don't you think? Anyway I didn't hit search, but maybe I will after I'm done just because I'm curious to see what might come up!
The past few days have seen more improvement in range of motion and general well being. Last night the Doctor commented that the nurses would try to get the extra liquids to flow through the feeding line, thus eliminating the last IV line. That will be great. He still has an antibiotic to finish, which may hold that up, but it was good to hear. His urine has cleared up (sorry Glenn!) and his chest is more clear every day. The student who was teaching me the stretches we can do over the weekend, suctioned the trache and didn't pull anything out. She said that was the first time that happened, so she was happy about that.
On Thursday I was in the therapy room talking to the therapist about the plan they are implementing, when she stopped in mid sentence and said "That is huge!" Glenn was in the wheel chair, they had just moved him and he was still leaning forward a bit, when he lifted his head and leaned back against the head rest. She said that was significant because the torso is the last part to come back after a stem stroke, so she was pretty happy to see Glenn do that. She also explained that they are going to deflate the Trache collar during therapy to see how Glenn will manage with swallowing and coughing while they are working with him. If he does well, they will work on communication ( talking) and perhaps we will see the last of the trache soon.
On Friday the therapy room was backed up so the collar thing didn't happen, and Glenn hadn't slept well Thursday night, so they dangled him ( sat him on the side of his bed) and worked on his balance and got him to help do a "squat stand" off the bed ( assisted of course) just to put some weight on his legs and get him to help with the lifting a bit. On the weekend, I will do some stretches with him to help keep his muscle range loose (I'm not sure that is the right way to describe that) so that Monday he will not have tightened up as much as if he had no stretching.
On the home front, we moved Jackie back to the farm. She and Chris dug out the 1/2 ton, and we loaded up her bed and a few other pieces of furniture so she actually slept in her own bed Thursday night. The roads were nasty on Wednesday, so we stayed in Regina that night, and now the city is a mess with the snow melting, but at least it is melting. Maybe this is the break we've been praying for!
I had lunch with a friend yesterday, had my haircut and had coffee with more friends, so it was a busy day for me, but Glenn needed sleep more than he needed company, and the kids came up around 5:oo, so we had a visit over supper hour and then left him dozing. Hopefully he slept better last night.
I'm just getting ready to leave, so usually the wards are more quiet on the weekend. We'll do some stretches and listen to the radio and generally chill out a bit. I'll try to get on the blog tonight and let you know how the day went. If you want to send a comment, all you have to do is click on the comments at the bottom of my post. On the comment page that opens, you will see a box on the right. Just click on that and type away. There may be a box to hit on the bottom to send or publish, but there is no sign in necessary. It will appear for all to read. Thanks for sending comments, and don't be scared to try it, it is quite easy.
Louise