Slow Day

Many of us would be grateful for a slow day, but not Bob! All day he wanted to know what was next! The plan was a resting day. Bob thinks he has had enough of those kinds of days. He was off the vent for 24 hours and so today, the doctors wanted to see if he could be off it for another 24 hours. They are doing some lung exercises with him to improve lung function and hopefully tomorrow Bob will be able to move back over to Prentice Hospital. Tomorrow could be a big day because they are also going to do the swallowing test. He now has a time for that. Bob really wants to be able to eat so hopefully he passes the test. He wanted me to give him some of my coffee and granola bar this morning. I reminded him that I was a real rule follower so he had to wait! Tonight he wanted his cell phone just in case in needed to call me. He gets a little anxious during the night so we told his nurse it was okay to call at any time. He felt better when I left but said he can't wait until morning. (Me too!)