President George W. Bush walks from the Oval Office, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, as he leaves for a trip to attend the Roundtable on Mentoring Children of Prisoners Initiative in Greensboro, N.C.
U.S. President George W. Bush walks out of the Oval Office of the White House before travelling to North Carolina for the day December 2, 2008.
President George W. Bush walks from the Oval Office, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, as he leaves for a trip to attend the Roundtable on Mentoring Children of Prisoners Initiative in Greensboro, N.C.
UPDATE ON DAD
An up and down day. The oxygen problem seems to be resolved. They now have him on nasal oxygen only and his saturation is in high 90s. It may have been he was getting too much oxygen yesterday and because he was not wearing the mask all the time the figures were not showing that he needed less because basically they were recording them with him not using oxygen but did not realise it.
I suspect the frogs and birds may have been because he was getting too much oxygen.
Today they lifted him out by a hoist into a chair for about an hour.
He is drinking milk even helping himself to the occasional sip or 2, again showing more arm strength and coordination. With this and yesterday telling me the phone number of his friend in London it shows that mentally he is all there.
The down is that he is still very weak and having tremendous sweats 2 or 3 times a time which soak his bed clothes. He had one just before and during the time I left the hospital this evening.
He is very fretful when I am not there and so far tonight he has rung me twice, once about midnight UK time and once about 1.00am. This must mean he asks the nurse on duty tonight to assist him as he would not be able to dial the number on the phone by the bed. Please pray that she will not get cross with him if he asks again.
I think urgent prayers are that he can rest and be more peaceful when I am not there especially at night.
For continued prayer that he will regain his strength, the chest infection will slowly clear up completely and his appetite will return and he will not be afraid of certain foods not being digested properly.
On the subject of food I met with his dietitian today and she said they are aiming at 1700 calories per day, 1000 of which are from the overnight feed and 700 from other means. I managed to get a third of lunch down him and 5 spoons of evening meal that coupled with 2 - 3 cups of milk and half a resource shake I think we were nearly up to that today.
On the whole though things look as if he is slowly progressing, of course he is sill classed as seriously ill but the percentages are certainly going up. His consultant visited him today and said this that it would be a long job but he had improved since he saw him last