Not as strong as yesterday, but still hanging in there

Dad had a pretty good night. Not sure how much he slept (without the constant monitoring of ICU, it's hard to tell unless you're in the room with him). He's in the corner room by the ice machine which is great during the day for family members, but not so great at night when trying to sleep.

No word from the Mayo Clinic yet, but we did hear from Dad's oncologist this morning. He definitely wants to check into having Dad be part of the in-patient rehab there at the hospital once he's medically able to go. This allows his doctors to check in on him daily and monitor progress closely. Mom is talking to the social worker today to get everything lined up to ensure that the insurance would cover it. He also wants to talk to Neurosurgery and find out when they can start a low-dose blood thinner. With his high susceptibility to blood clots, they'd really like to have him on a therapeutic dose just as soon as he gets cleared from the neurosurgeons that the bleed is all healed up in his brain. His daily chest x-ray still shows no pneumonia or other issues with his lungs -- good news. Being in bed that long without a lot of activity tends to lead to pneumonia. Definitely not what we want.

There isn't a nurse's aide on the floor today, so we're making sure that someone is in the room at all times. Mom and Grandma just went up, and I'm hanging back while the house is cleaned (which is going to be awesome!). Everyone is pretty tired after the past week and a half, without much of a break in sight. Thankful we're not dealing with this from a hotel room, as there is something to be said about being "home" at the end of the day.

I plan on going up after the merry maids are done to see him, and then on to shop for a microwave at Nebraska Furniture Mart. Fixing the old one just doesn't seem like the right thing to do, especially when you can get a new one for the price of fixing the old one. Not sure Mom agrees yet, but we'll see.