Daudy-6/22

Today marks a week since Dad’s accident. It’s amazing how our schedule has changed in 1 weeks time. We all 3 specialist come in today and non have answers. They said we could do more tests but that wouldn’t change what we are doing, so for now, it’s one day at a time. At this time, Daudy opens his eyes and his eyes will even follow you, but it doesn’t appear that he knows us. He doesn’t attempt to talk, he doesn’t squeeze our hand and has not had anything by mouth since he is in the hospital. He is getting high doses of oxygen in order to keep his saturation levels up.

Wil was expressing concern to a co-worker about not knowing what the next step is. His co-worker said, “let go-let God”.

This morning Wil went into the hospital early as usual, so he can be there if any Doctors show up. I got there around 9:00 and was there until 5:30. Wil’s nephew, Jim was there with Daudy when I got there. This morning Daudy had his eyes open a lot but also moaned a fair amount. Wil was working downstairs and would come up whenever a Doctor came. I sent him a text once that said, “please come!” Daudy had phlegm issues and it appeared he was choking and I panicked. Soon after that they gave him another dose of morphine and that helped a lot.

Dave and Agne stopped in for a while this afternoon.

Mary worked today and then after work, she went to LaGrange to get Mom. Mary then went on home and Mom stayed for around 2 hours, before I took her home. Mary along with Jim's family spent time with Daudy in the evening.

The drive from Goshen to Lagrange is quite long, but today it seemed much shorter. I had a very special time with Mom on the way back. She cried as she talked about her fears of never being able to talk with her husband again. She talked about her love for him, how he tried to treat people fair, we talked about our ultimate goal being heaven and how she doesn’t want him to suffer, but she would really miss him. I encouraged her to be open about her feelings at the Nursing Home and she said how good they have been about it.

I got home in time to mow the yard and work in the garden. Wil got home in time to till the garden. It was really bad.

Wil is getting pretty exhausted. It’s been early mornings and late nights. I am fortunate to have good replacement and have not worked much since the accident, so I can sit with Daudy.

Daudy-6/21

     

Today was a day, of a lot of tests. This is a picture of Daudy with his new Oxygen Mask and how he looked when he was wired up for his EEG test.  His skin on his nose broke open, so they had to change his type of mask.  He also had a PICC line put in, chest X-ray, CT Scan and his cast put on today.

In the morning, he didn’t open his eyes at all.  Sue and David left for Kansas around 2:00 this afternoon.  Daudy’s saturation levels on his oxygen dropped quite a bit during his CT Scan, so they had to increase the oxygen for a while.  After all the tests, he did open his eyes and appeared to follow you.  What he was comprehending, if any, we don’t know.

Mid morning, Mary Ellen, Joyce and Marilyn showed up to support us, and brought Rise n Roll donuts with them.

Aunt Sarah(Daudy’s sister), along with 2 neighbor ladies, went to the Nursing Home to visit Mother, so she wouldn’t be alone.  Mother had been at the hospital, the previous 4 days.

At the end of Daudy’s EEG test, his sister Barbara stopped by.

Daudy’s brother Neil, and his wife Alma were there when he was more alert.

My sister, Anna brought a wonderful Salad and bread sticks for our supper.  Daudy’s cast was put on while we were downstairs eating.

When I was about 1/2 way done eating, we got a phone call saying that my Dad was being brought to the ER with an ambulance.  It was a bit more than I could take for a brief moment.  My Dad’s hip had popped out and was in extreme pain.  They got it back in under sedation, without surgery, and he was given some very strict rules.