THE PROGRESS CONTINUES

I apologize for getting this blog in so late. We have a full day today. My in-laws brought Thomas back to town for the Christmas weekend. It was so good to hold him again. I went back to the hotel last night so that I could see him first thing in the morning. He was as happy as could be. He is fighting a bit of a cold right now ...to be expected after of a week of daycare....
He was very happy to see his daddy today. He had to keep his distance though since he has a cold. Daddy's face lit up as soon as he saw him, too.
Ron had another good day. I was told that overnight his kidney started working! He had really good output for his first night off the dialysis machine. The kidney doctors were very happy this morning. They were able to take his catheter out today as well. He was very happy about this. He started back on his plasma treatement today. He will have another tomorrow. He may have dialysis tomorrow just depends on how they feel his total output was today. I did not get the final total from the nurse but she said it was looking to be a really good day for him. He is still having a lot of weakness in his legs ...a lot of this not only stems from the fact that he was in bed for a full week after surgery but also because of the paralysis medication he was on...I have been told this takes time to recover from ...your muscles need to learn how to work all over agan. He stood for about 30 seconds today...it took quite a lot out of him. He sat in a chair for about two hours. He was so ready to be put back in bed after that. He slept off and on most of the day. Our new friend, Tracy, who also attends PVC, was kind enough to make the drive down from Goodyear to visit us. She also came to bring gifts to Thomas from Santa. We are so appreciative of her kindness and generosity...we really enjoyed our visit with her.
The doctors are slowly starting to switch a lot of his medications he is receiving via IV to pill form. So...the IV lines are slowly being removed. They are also planning to remove his A-Line and place a PIC line instead ....since most of the IV lines will no longer be needed. I know he will be happy with this. He gets so frustrated when the IV lines gets to tangled in his bed. Most of the nurses are real good about keeping them neat...but sometimes they do get overlooked. Ron was a little cranky today ...he is very sore ...his lower back continues to give him problems...and he is a bit overwhelmed by how weak he is. I continued to give him encouragement that with every little bit of movement he makes a day...the closer he will be to regaining his strength. Two surgeries is a lot for any body to handle....he will just need to be patient with himself...it will all come together and he will be walking before long. He still continues to eat well. Tonight he was not in the mood for hospital food so he sent me out to get him a sandwich from subway..only a 6".....he ate it all! I was very impressed. We are still waiting on final results on his biopsy. Hopefully, some news will come our way tomorrow. Until then.....

You will know that God's power is very great for us who believe. Ephesians 1:19