Body Snatched?

We had a visit from Gus and Jack and Gage today.  They were headed Up North to the cabin for the weekend.

Gus and Dad visited while I got caught up on all the Luck sports by chatting with Jack and Gage.

We snapped a quick picture before the kids left to head North with Gus.

Dad continues to do so much better is is almost as if the 'unwell' Dad was body-snatched 

and replaced with a new version of a much healthier Dad!  

His sleep study results showed that he stopped breathing 23 times in one hour and his blood oxygen level dropped significantly to 89% as well, so next week we will see the Neurologist to review those findings and talk about a C-Pap breathing machine for Dad to use at night.  We are also on our last week of home visits for both Occupational and Physical therapy.  

Next week they will do the final assessments and then wrap up that part of Dad's rehab.

We are still working with the Marshfield Warfarin clinic on the dosages of his Warfarin/Coumadin, he is not in the therapeutic range yet, but they are taking a nice slow approach to his dosages, so in due time he will be where he needs to be on that too.

Now we are starting to talk about scheduling the return to Iowa, or as I call it "Escape to Iowa".  I will drive the folks back to Belmond, stay a night of two and then Glenn will come down and pick me up.  We are looking at either October 28th or November 11th as our departure date.  Exact scheduling depends on Glenn & his schedule and also a little about how it goes here between now and then.

If we wait until November, then Dad can have more physical therapy here at the clinic.  Once back in Iowa, I am sure he can take more therapy there.  But all of that can all be decided once we get them back to Iowa and he starts to see his doctors there.

So, Dad will miss deer hunting this year, but we are already talking about planning better for next year.  Hopefully next summer's visit goes a much smoother than this one, but I am pretty confident that Dad is going to do fine now that he is taking the right medications.  He has started using just his cane around the house again and that goes very well, so by the time he is back in Iowa, 

things might be about as they were before they left, 

if not a little bit better.

Happy to share good news once again,