Today...

Visited the hospital today with: Mom, Joey, Jenny, Grandpa, Barb and Grandma. Uncle J's day was going OK this morning. Still breathing without the ventilator, asking to have his hands rubbed, and generally doing well. Later, I got to visit with him and we "talked"- I talked, he mouthed and I repeated to confirm!- and we had some funny moments. He is having some short term memory problems and doesn't remember the accident. The last thing he remembers is October 23 and being at work. He forgets about the accident, where he is, and his injuries at times. Yesterday he went into bradycardia again and they had to use atropine to bring his heart back up. This makes the 3rd time. He was doing well all throughout the day, but this evening his breathing had gotten a lot more raggedy and his heartbeat was a little faster (the reading on the monitor was all over the place.) Mom called for an update after we had all left and they had put him on the ventilator so that he would not get too tired and would hopefully not have any other problems. Grandma and Barb went to look at a facility in Lima where he may go to become more stable before eventually trying to get into the spinal cord injury rehab program down at OSU. We all take it day by day and hope that each day brings good news. Keep looking here for updates and, as ever, THANK YOU for everything!