Sorry!!

Sorry guys! Were you thinking that I reached my journal limits like I did with my 6 year old pink ballerina journal and you had reached the end!??? Nope nope. Just a couple of busy days. When Grandpa is feeling better, boy there sure is a lot of stuff to do!!! Fix his sheets, comb his hair, take some pictures for the journal, talk to him about the toll bridge and listen to his argument about how the city should just buy the toll bridge so people don't have to pay every time they cross the bridge from Moorhead to Fargo. Tell him that maybe the nice man delivering communion doesn't really want to talk about the toll bridge and how the city should buy it so people don't have to pay every time they cross the bridge from Moorhead to Fargo. Srsly. Although the nice man did entertain the conversation for a bit.

Here are some Grandpa pics from today. He's got such an attentive bunch of ladies to tend to him (everyone always comments about all the ladies around grandpa and that beautiful picture in his room)

 Hair dresser Pammy-Jean

 Masseuse Patty-Rae

Eat yo food Grandpa

 Taking a stroll

Major news of the week.....Yesterday Grandpa was moved off of the intensive care unit!!!!!! WhooooHooooooo!! What this means, however, is that Grandpa's nursing care isn't as top of the line. Jodi kindasucksalot (no, that's not her last name, but it could be). On the ICU floor every nurse gets one patient (usually, at least. I think there are times that a nurse can share two). So grandpa's nurses were basically in his room 24/7. I've probably said this already, but it was amazing to see how much they genuinely cared about people. It was inspiring just being around them. And they sure got to enjoy his company. Bri, Grandpa's blonde nurse who took care of him the first couple of days when he was brought into the ICU and was incredibly sick requested him on one of his last days there. She was so impressed with how well he was doing, but she was kind of sad he would be leaving :( She said they all enjoyed him so much. We all made pretty good friends with the nursing staff in the ICU, I think it took us 45 minutes to actually leave the floor the other day because we were saying goodbye to the nurses and chatting with them on how well Grandpa was doing. We took a picture today of Grandpa holding a thank you balloon and tomorrow the sisters have ordered cookies for the floor which will be accompanied with that photo of gramps, it's pretty cute.

Even the nurses who weren't directly assigned to Grandpa miss him. Jamie one of the ICU nurses who helped Grandpa down for surgery saw me walking up to check on Grandpa in the dialysis unit today and stopped me to see what was up. I said he was SOOOOO much better so he came up with me to say hello to Grandpa. They are such great people.

So now....the nursing care leaves a little to be desired. He still gets some amazing nurses but there are a few that just kind of suck. You can tell right off the bat when that genuine human compassion element is lacking. It also makes Pammy-Jean's job a little more labor-intensive. Every time Jodi Kindasucksalot does something that we don't like we send nurse administrator pammy-jean in to set her straight. Meh meh meh.

All of Grandpa's blood work and tests are looking great. He's still doing the dialysis to help out his kidney function and also pull some of that extra fluid off of him. The only downside about dialysis is that it makes him cough for about an hour after the procedure, it's weird, we don't know why. Tomorrow we'll start thinking/talking about transferring Grandpa to a transitional rehab facility until he is good enough to go home. Below is a picture I brought in for Grandpa, I put in a caption: "I'll just wait here til you get better."

Miss Keagyn Lynn is also on the Grandpa-get-better cheering squad. She's doing a pretty good job. Too bad the little squirt isn't here herself so we could here that squeaky southern accent of hers! She'd also probably do a pretty good job of boss'n grandpa back to health.

Get better Grandpa, we lob you!