Saturday, March 31, 2012

Hospital number three in 7 weeks...

Dad must have a thing with Fridays as it was 7 Fridays ago that he first went into the HSC. Here we are now at the third hospital. He isn't much better today - very quiet. He has some standard answers he can produce... usually no to a question involving food or drink, and "good" for asking how he is. He was mostly only repeating things we have said otherwise. He seems in ok spirits... not the best, but he wasn't upset or stressed or anything. His blood is low again (not sure why - there doesn't appear to be any bleeding that we can see), so he is having a blood transfusion now shortly. The nurse looked back through his bloodwork and it was be going down since around March 17th when it was 113... now it is 84! Normal would be somewhere around 130. He is staying in the same room as last night - no word on how long etc. Looks like he will be having another CT scan of his brain on Monday and an ultrasound of his carotid arteries on Monday as well. He has some bruise on his hip/bum! That seems to be the only thing that is causing him pain/discomfort right now. It isn't the best spot for visitors at the moment because it is for people just recovering from a stroke but I will let everyone know where/when they can start visiting again.

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