I reported awhile ago that Dick's father was placed in the hospital in Visalia on January 2nd. Well, unfortunately, he is STILL there!! It appeared he had pneumonia when he arrived. They cleared that up - thank God. He was STILL complaining of his upper back ache. After more testing, determined he needed surgery on his back! They performed the surgery on January 12 - we were told, they put 'cement' between the vertebrae due to a 'fracture'. He is no longer in any pain! After the surgery, things were looking better but then he had a blood problem. After two blood transfusions a few days apart, things were looking good. Then, this afternoon, we received a phone call from Dick's brother that things were not OK. I guess Bill is not the best of patients. The therapists arrive and he refuses to try and walk! He is very very weak from laying in bed all of the time. Jane and David get frustrated because he is unwilling to TRY! There is talk that perhaps he can be moved to a rehabilitation hospital but, he is going to want to attempt to rehabilitate!
Dick and I have obligations up here until next Sunday, then, we plan on going down to Visalia. Thank you for adding a few extra prayers for him and Jane. She spends every day, all day, at the hospital by his bedside. She told me, in the evening, she opens her Bible and prays that he can come home soon.
I will do better of updating this blog too.
2 comments:
thanks for letting us know how Dick's dad is. We were wondering and did not know the latest about not wanting to walk. We will keep him in our prayers and hope you and Dick can somehow help out the Mom and Dad while you are down in Visalia.
love you
Thanks Mom. Today's update from David was about the same. He seems to sleep A LOT now. He stood up out of bed today but that was it, no walking. He is eating food now, so that is an improvement from a few days ago.
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