| Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| Fantastic Friday |
Dad had a very busy day. He started out with feeding himself breakfast of eggs and yogurt using his swallow techniques he learned yesterday. He then had the speech therapist in to practice more techniques to get his tongue exercised and his annunciation of Ks and Gs. He had the respiratory therapist in checking on him as well to make sure he is doing his breathing exercises every hour. The physical therapist was also in to get him to stand up and walk 3 steps. He had a busy morning and was ready for a nap, but lunch came. He practiced his swallowing technique again and stuck out his tongue at us (to practice what the speech therapist told him). The afternoon continued to be busy with a visit from Dr. Chow who said his heart rate looked good and a breathing treatment from the respiratory therapist which made dad feel so good he was ready to go home.
He had a visitor Luanne, from Catholic Charities visit. She knows dad from Meals on Wheels. She had specific instructions from 3 different people to make sure she saw how he was doing. She talked about the nursing homes/rehab centers. We decided we didn't like either one of those names so from now on it is the SPA that dad will be going to next.
Dr. Rudnick came to visit dad too. Dr. Rudnick said that dad looked "marvelous" which made dad feel great. And he does look marvelous. Dr. Rudnick said that there were 3 options to his biopsy. The first is open surgery which is not being considered. The second is a needle biopsy which would be a needle into his lungs. They would have to see if the "mass" was in an appropriate place to do that. The third way is down his throat. They plan on doing the procedure on Monday. The schedule would mean he would be in the hospital into next week before he went to the SPA. Dr. Hoffman will be in for the weekend to determine which procedure would be best for him.
We left dad after dinner which he ate a lot of potatoes, bean, fruit cocktail, thickened milk which mom snacks on as well. He does well feeding himself which is a big step from us playing "open the hanger" with him yesterday. |
posted by Mad @ 6:33 PM  |
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