Today has been a great day for Dad. He got his breathing tube out about 8am and got off the ventilator. He's talking now and giving the nurses a hard time. They've been taking tubes out of him all morning. But, the best thing of all was when they began to do breathing exercises with him. There are graduations on the tube and Dad's natural competitiveness came out. He'd seen a person doing the exercises on the video we watched and was determined to beat the woman in the video. The next hour they came back he doubled that level and the third hour he actually banged the little indicator off the top. Each time he would say to the therapist, is that OK for an 89 year old man? They're going to hear that a lot, along with his life story. They told me he's doing better than 90% of the patients they have no matter what age. I had to laugh. He's sitting up now, the bed morphs into a chair
For those of you that follow Dad's scroll saw work, I took a picture of the completed projects he has made and are ready to be delivered.
Thanks for the prayers, they're clearly helping. I head home tonight, hate to leave, but anxious to get back to Mary.
George
