Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Weekends are always slower paced here, and today was no exception. When Patty and I got over to see David he was sleeping. The nurse told us that Khyla and her mom, Elena, had stopped by earlier to see David, but he was sleeping then also. They had planned to visit with David and then sightsee in San Francisco. At least they got to see S.F., and had a good time.

We moved David to a bigger and better room with a handicapped sink, (there are a few in the hospital!), right across the hall from his old room. It has windows that face our “Fisher House”, so David can almost see us from his room.

When it was time for David’s lunch, I asked him if he was hungry and he said, “no”. I asked him why, and he said that the food sucked. So Patty heated him up a can of ravioli, and we defrosted the In-N-Out shake that Khyla got him yesterday, (he had only drank half of it so we froze the rest) and suddenly David was in heaven. He really is a man of simple tastes.

David worked hard during PT, stretching, strengthening his ‘trunk’ muscles, and walking back to his room from the gym, with the ‘really cool’ walker, and two therapists helping.

In the evening we started watching a DVD in David’s room (he picked The Bourne Ultimatum), and pretty soon Khyla and Elena stopped by on their way back from San Fran. We visited for a while and had fun shooting each other with Nerf guns of all shapes and varieties, and playing ‘volleyball’ with a large balloon. We told David that when he shot us he at least he needed to smile as he pulled the trigger. So he smiled his crooked but fun smile as he shot us. I commented that Jason Bourne always smiled as he shot people. About a minute passed and David said, “let’s see”. It took a moment to realize that he was asking to watch the movie again. So all of us watched the rest of the movie together. It was a fun night. As we said goodbye to Khyla and Elena (David had already fallen asleep) we mentioned that he may or may not remember that they had visited. His short-term memory is bad still. We will ask him tomorrow if he remembers their visit, and if he doesn’t, we will continue to remind him, as we do with all of his visitors. We have pictures that we can show him, and hopefully when he is better, he will have some memory of those friends and family that have visited him.

Thanks again for all of your prayers.

Steve