I'M STANDING TALL

Me and some of my clan. (Gayla,Vicky,Bonica,Dad,Ricky)

First real group picture. Snagged a nurse from the hallway to take a picture of this motley crew. These smiles are sooooo expressive of our feelings of how well Dad is doing. There was a small set back this afternoon :( His right lower lobe of his lung is collapsed and doesn't want to inflate. They are not sure why so they have hooked him back up to water seal suction on his chest tube. The dressing continues to have episodes of saturation of serous drainage but much less then last 2 days. They will re-X-ray tomorrow morning to see if it is resolving. If it doesn't then they may have to go down into his lung and see whats going on. This news isn't about to get Dad down!!!!!!!!!!!!

He did a total of three ambulations today around the nursing unit which is pretty big. Sat up in the chair three times for 1/2hr to 1hr each time. He had one episode of nausea after walking around the unit and having a 30cc swallow of water so we decided to give only 1/2oz every 30min so not to over stress is SKINNY STOMACH :) He is now sleeping really well while the three girls are sitting at the foot of his bed with our feet on his bed and Rick is looking busy on his computer...work stuff....POOR guy.