Wednesday Night Visit
Sorry for the belated update -- I visited Dan last night and then camped out in a cafe to write this post, but my laptop has been on the fritz lately, so it shut down mid-quip. And since I'm writing this on my laptop and not my office machine, the Microsoft Paint drawings will have to wait.
Dan can sit up now -- at about a 45 degree angle. This seems to have made a huge difference in his general attitude. He's still in a lot of pain and the nurses still haven't found the right dosage/schedule for his pain medication ... so I will continue to mock them. But being able to sit up makes him less groggy and more functional. He's still on a liquid/plasma diet consisting of water, juice, and Jell-O. I understand NIH has patented some gravy-flavored Jell-O for special occasions like today. The rest of the family is having Thanksgiving Dinner at "The Lodge" -- a rather plush hotel on the campus that looks and feels like it should be on a mountainside in Vail or Lake Tahoe.
Polly left yesterday morning, Dan's buddy Mark is coming to town tonight and Tom and Mindi will be here tomorrow! So there's a healthy rotation of friends and loved-ones for the next couple days and hopefully they'll get Dan off the morphine soon enough so we can have a sustained conversation with him. I promised Dan I'd make a more detailed post today, but I'll have to return to the keyboard later this afternoon -- turkey-cooking duties beckon. I'm going to visit him again this afternoon and maybe escort Mark over there tonight or tomorrow morning, so ... be sure to send on your T-day wishes. I'll post again tonight.
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Dan can sit up now -- at about a 45 degree angle. This seems to have made a huge difference in his general attitude. He's still in a lot of pain and the nurses still haven't found the right dosage/schedule for his pain medication ... so I will continue to mock them. But being able to sit up makes him less groggy and more functional. He's still on a liquid/plasma diet consisting of water, juice, and Jell-O. I understand NIH has patented some gravy-flavored Jell-O for special occasions like today. The rest of the family is having Thanksgiving Dinner at "The Lodge" -- a rather plush hotel on the campus that looks and feels like it should be on a mountainside in Vail or Lake Tahoe.
Polly left yesterday morning, Dan's buddy Mark is coming to town tonight and Tom and Mindi will be here tomorrow! So there's a healthy rotation of friends and loved-ones for the next couple days and hopefully they'll get Dan off the morphine soon enough so we can have a sustained conversation with him. I promised Dan I'd make a more detailed post today, but I'll have to return to the keyboard later this afternoon -- turkey-cooking duties beckon. I'm going to visit him again this afternoon and maybe escort Mark over there tonight or tomorrow morning, so ... be sure to send on your T-day wishes. I'll post again tonight.
-->KM
posted by Dan at 8:14 AM
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