And the Travel Continues

Just got the word that Jon is to be transferred back to Select Specialties Hospital this afternoon. He will go back with orders to be put on the VAC for his bedsore which they cannot do until tomorrow morning. However, the doctors here at OSU looked at it and debrided it yesterday so hopefully the delay will not be harmful. Select is locating a different kind of air bed and we devoutly hope that it will improve things also. The speech therapist here was going to work at trying to find out what causes Jon to aspirate when he eats but I hadn't a chance to talk with her in depth this morning and counted on speaking with her this afternoon. She was going to have Jon do exercises 3 times a day which I would think, in and of itself, would have been an immense help. Unfortunately I got the call notifying me of the transfer just 15 minutes after talking with her! Hopefully Jon's pain can be managed more effectively without putting him to sleep all the time and we can do the exercises with him ourselves.