Well today is a very different story from Saturday and yesterday. The dr. said that the lung is not as congested as it has been and the dialysis seems to be working. So the plan today is to dialyze him and put him in a room on the 6th floor!! I really feel like a change of scenery for daddy will do him good. They are also going to start giving him nutritional shakes to try and build up his strength since he hasn't been eating so well. Yesterday when I left, I was very down, thinking he was giving up. But today, I feel like, with a change of venue, he will at least have a little hope about himself!!! I was so afraid he was ready to throw in the towel. He tried to get me to take him home last night. It was so hard to leave him like that.
Job 6: 8 - "Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for.
Postscript: I took mama by the hospital when I got off work to see daddy. It seems we have a small setback. He wasn't able to do the full dialysis because his blood pressure dropped, so they aren't moving him to a regular room today. Dr. Brennan told one of my brothers that his heart muscles are working too hard so he wanted to give daddy some medicine to slow those muscles down and try to make his defribilator kick in so his heart doesn't have to work so hard. The problem with this is his blood pressure will drop so they have to watch him closely. So that's where we are right now. Mama had only been there for about 45minutes, when out of a deep sleep, he woke up and said, "Nancy take her home so she can get some rest." When I bent over to kiss him good night, he said, "Thank you for taking care of her." He loves her so much and it is so hard for him not to be able to provide the care he has given her for 58 years!!
Also today, we found out he'd rather have his sons staying with him than anybody else. He specifically asked for two of them this afternoon, so we had to find one to go sit with him!! I guess I know my place!!!
