West of Mpls MN about 50 miles on Hwy 12 | Our son is doing pretty good considering he was on a ventilator more dead than alive for eight days and has only been off the ventilator since Friday afternoon.
It surprises me how weak he is. We just got back from our first in over ten days walk down the hallway for a couple dozen steps and back.
After our walk it is his first time with no supplemental O2 and he's doing great maintaining "normal" O2 levels on his own.
He got bucky with the speech person when she tried to get him to drink water for the first time (we weren't here yet this morning) so we talked the charge nurse into giving us a spoon and he's doing great drinking spoonfuls of water for us...next step is bootlegged apple sauce.
We've been told here is no need for us to be in the ICU any longer and that we are classified and being billed as a "regular care patient"...but believe it or not there is still not a regular care room available at Abbott mainly due to staffing issues as far as we understand.
It's currently shift change so hopefully it will be moving day yet this afternoon to a regular care room for a couple days then home to the farm for a week...or two, then back to his house.
He is severely depressed now that he's under no medication and the best medicine right now is for him to get the hell out of here to finish recovery at the farm.
Now to convince the people that literally saved his life of that fact is our main mission in life...and they don't seem to be totally against the plan so we're selling/proving ourselves as being capable...his mother's nursing home employment experience of over a decade just might tip the scales in our favor... telling stories about farrowing a 150 does at one time in our lives doesn't seem to be hurting our case either.
So long story short, our son has a long road to full recovery ahead of him but in the past 24 hours he had made a lot of quite remarkable progress towards being discharged ahead of schedule.
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