May 16, 2011

Just left the hospital visiting dad this morning. Dr. came in this morning and said that the test they did on his leg in surgery came back negative. The little bacteria they did find before in the cultures might have just been a little dirt from accident. Nothing major, as of now, in terms of infection. They are planning on having surgery Thursday or Friday to try to go in and put some rods in his knee. They did a scan of his knee yesterday to double check it and I didn't hear anything negative, which is good. They seem positive of trying to reconstruct his leg. The main Dr. is excited because she is doing a grant for this type of surgery right now so she was excited to see what they can do to keep the leg. Swelling went down in neck and face a ton and he has been doing his breathing exercises to keep him off of the ventilator. We use to have to make him pick up the device to open up his lungs but now he requests it. We are thinking because of the 15 or so different doctors and therapist to come in, EVERY single one of them have preached using the device to stay off the ventilator. I haven't talked with my aunt this morning yet to check on Grandma. I will call her later and update the page tonight. Keep praying!!!!