I only dropped in to see Dad for a few minutes on the way home today, but I managed to get a bit of an update while I was there. Dr. Bhalla (sp?) saw him today and said that he is very malnourished and probably wasn't eating very well even before all of this. That isn't too surprising to me. We have all talked about how since probably just before Christmas Dad didn't seem to have much of an appetite and probably wasn't eating very much at home. This, combined with not being fed for an entire week from the Friday he got sick to the Friday he went into ICU has made for a very malnourished body. It has been a struggle to get him to eat much even since he has been stable. Needless to say, after this news, there was no sympathy at dinner time today and he was pretty close to force fed his supper. They also have started him on a diabetic diet as they are testing him for diabetes.

ALSO, he now has himself a case of gout, which is like inflammation in your big toe (mostly) that all the men on Dad's side of the family seem to get. It is VERY painful. He is started on meds for that now today.

He had his CT but they didn't have the report back. He did not have the ultrasound of his neck/carotid arteries yet today. He is also scheduled for the test that sees if there is seizure activity (echo? EEG? can't remember what it's called).

He also had a visit from a neurologist. Not sure who or what happened with that - this is the unfortunate part of having to be at work all day!!!

And finally, physio was in to see him but he didn't manage to do much I guess where the gout was flared up.

He was still pretty quiet but Rick said he was a little more chatty than yesterday but he is still having major difficulty communicating. Rick was with him for a few hours this afternoon and Mary Lynn was going to be there with him this evening. We are trying to switch it up so that we aren't all there at the same time and there all night every night. We have to realize that this could be like this for a VERY long time and we have to start getting into a routine. Or else none of us will be very much use! He was super cranky tonight too with the whole eating thing too so it will be good to switch it up.

Ok, will update again tomorrow.