New Room!!

Sorry for posting so late at night.

Sunday Mom, Jon and I played 3 handed turn up euchre. Jon prefers bid euchre but I'm not good at bidding so he agreed to turn-up. Before the accident it was hard to get him to play with us at home. He was always playing so much with his friends. It's nice to have him play with us. We don't keep a written score but Jon seems to keep track on his own.

Jon is not a yogurt fan but Mom has talked him into trying the Probiotic yogurt to help with his bowels. He tolerated it but didn't like it. He has not wanted to eat anything that he doesn't like the taste of. Mom has been trying to get him to understand that he needs to eat for nutrition and not just taste if we are going to get the bedsore healed. I am proud of him as he is eating more even if he doesn't like it. Yesterday (Monday) his bowels were thicker than before (sorry if that is tmi) which is a good thing. Solid food seems to be helping. It's been liquid in, liquid out for so long.

Yesterday (Monday) Jon was moved to a new room. He was originally in a room intended for a ventilator. They had 2 people coming that needed a vent so he was moved out. He stayed on the same floor. His new roommate came at 11:00pm!!! There was quite the confusion. While Jon is not on a vent, he has 7 different plugs and there were spots for only 6 things to be plugged in. That is with taping a cord on the floor and having 2 stretched and taped over the air conditioning unit. That means that either his IV or his suction machine is unplugged at a time. Carol just informed me that the new neighbor is sharing a plug with Jon. The neighbor's feeding tube (which is battery backup) needed to be charged so one of Jon's machines, which is also battery backup, was unplugged. This is going to be very interesting and hopefully not harmful.

I had a class tonight so I didn't see him tonight. Mom and Carol came down this afternoon. They played 3 handed turn-up euchre. They only played 6 hands before Jon was done. Mom won 3, Jon won 2 and Carol 1. He did not eat very well today. He likes his salads. Apparently he demanded to have a salad for breakfast!!!! They forgot one at dinner and had to have one sent up. He eats it first. Carol told Mom about a liquid Probiotic. They picked some up and he did better drinking the 3 ounces instead of eating the 4 ounces. While 4 ounces isn't a lot, he eats smaller bites. He was having some trouble breathing today.

Jon is due to have a shower at midnight tonight. It has been a week since his last shower. He isn't too enthused about having one at midnight. He was measured for his hand braces (as they lost his original ones) today. Tomorrow he is being measured for a special power wheel chair. It will be a "Tilt in space" which means that he can relieve his pressure by tilting back. He will also have a special cushion to help with the bed sore.