Saturday

Gene seems to be gaining strength and doing better every day.

He seems to understand what happened and is now processing that. As a family, we are reminding ourselves that we've been processing this for three weeks. He is definitely eager to move to Shepherd and begin the process of rehabilitation. We hope to hear something early this coming week.

He is still receiving support from the ventilator, and I know it's frustrating that he can't talk and we have to try to read his lips. But he is doing a lot of breathing on his own with the ventilator providing support for oxygen and for some pressure.

We are still very scrupulous about putting on robes and gloves before we go in to keep from introducing some kind of infection to him. Last night Mom and I got focused on getting a message to his night nurse before we left, so I disrobed and found the nurse. By that time Mom was ready to leave. So I stood at the door and said "Dad, I got my robe off before I had a chance to kiss you good bye." He raised his right hand up to his mouth and then stretched it out toward me - blowing me a kiss!

Visitors on Saturday:
Emily, Dr. Carver, Russ, Lynn and Alan, Arvin

Prayer Requests
Please continue to pray for increased respiratory strength, and the return of strength and mobility especially to his arms, hands and fingers.