We are doing well still. Daniel moved up to the rehab floor yesterday afternoon. Here he will learn how to manage with putting no weight on this left arm or leg. He will learn to transfer from one seat to another. We are not sure if we will need to get a hospital bed and handicap accessible things for the bathroom. We know he will be in a wheel chair for a while. This means building a ramp and making sure our doors are wide enough to put a wheel chair in. All of this will come in time. We have a case manager to help with all of this.
He did well this morning with getting out the bed for the first time. He was definitely in pain, but that is to be expected. He will be working every morning from 9 till about 2 with lunch in the middle. At 2 he comes back to the room to put a machine on his bad leg for 6 hours. So pretty much he is working all day. Although a little scared, he is doing so much better than they could have imagined at this point. Each day should get better from now.
We were warned again of his high risk of blood clots. That risk actually increases as he starts moving, but then will begin to go down. This is his reason for still being in the hospital. He could not go home right now with this high risk.
Thanks again for the prayers, cards, and support.
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glad to hear things are looking on the up and up...check dan's facebook for a message from me!
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