This morning's visit was the opposite of yesterday's. Gone is the ambivalence and serenity. Agitation and frustration seem to have swooped in and, with them, a tremendous amount of movement and awareness.
Oh yeah, Walt can move his arms and legs alright. As far as purposeful movements go, not only is he grabbing for his tubes (which one might mistake this for involuntary reaction to uncomfortable stimuli), but this morning he put his mits up to his mouth, bit into them, and pulled on them in a vallient, yet vain attempt to free himself from these harsh restraints. That, by any measure, is a purposeful movement (at least in my book).
Although he shook his head "no" when I asked him if he knew who I was, he did shake hands with me, upon request, when I left. And he actually raised his hand to meet mine, gripped hard and shook. No "dead fish" handshake here...
I hear that my brother and Tippy went to see Walt last night. They have him a good "talking-to". It appears that a followup conversation might be in order. Hey Brian, Tip, how about a comment hear on your visit last night, we'd love to hear from ya!
Medically, the nurse reported that Walt spent 8 hours off of the ventilator yesterday and they will continue to ween him off. His fever rose again last night, they cultured him (I didn't know he had so much culture?) and tweeked the antiobiotics.
That's all for now...please keep the comments coming!
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I guess the agitation is a good thing even though it makes me sad to think about how frustrated he is. I wonder if he is starting to realize all that has gone on or if he is confused all over again every time he wakes up?
I will be up there this weekend with him so I can share any insight I have.
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