Update 25

The physiotherapist, like everyone else here so far, is delightfully pleasant. Through no lack of skill on her part and mountains of determination on Captain Jim’s part, we were able to actually get him to sit up and even stand up with assistance. He might have done what could be perceived as a dance but really, with his moves who knows if he was just unstable.

At one point when they had him standing up for the 1st time the therapist asked him “where is your head?” to make sure he was not dizzy and he said “Its on top of my shoulders”

It will be a long road but then so is life, and we are all just happy to still be on it together.

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Update 24

Dr. M has come in and reviewed all the X-rays and results, he is very pleased with his progress and based on the physiotherapists report and his management of all the pain we might be on the road to recovery very soon.

The good news is my dad is pretty much the toughest human I know, second only to Kareen, who might not actually even really be human considering how many medical ringers we have all put her through – prior to flying to Canada for my heart surgery in 1983 (i had a baboon heart installed) Trudy fell ill with bacterial Meningitis, I am fairly sure she was faking it. – All the while Kareen maintains excellent health while having O- (universal donor blood) she is always jetting out of the house to go donate. She really got herself in with a dud of a family an awesome family.

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Update 23

The best part about sleeping in a hospital bed is….nothing…. there is no good part of sleeping in a hospital bed.

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We had a bit of a rough night as its hard for him to get comfortable and the change in pain medication was a bit of an unpleasant shock to the system. Instead of having a lovely sweet velvety flow of opiates through his IV he is now on pain pills, which he initially refused because he is an asshole didn’t think he had any pain yet. He was très le wrong (thats french)

Got it mostly all sorted out now and waiting for the Magic Dr. Surgeon Extortioner to come give us a review.

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Update 21

Callum, my 2.5yrs old nephew would like to give you all the following message:

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he said “me type” while working on this piece, his ability to articulate so eloquently at such a delicate age truly astounds me. Good lad.

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Update 19

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Dad should be back in our room on the ward this afternoon. Please give us a call at 680-6764 before stopping by just incase he is resting or we are having a tsunami of visits.

Thanks again to everyone for the unending love, support and well wishes. It has made this extended nightmare of a week so much easier.

xoxox

Update 18

Dr Mahadeo just came in to give us the run down of his status. He is very pleased overall about the healing of the surgery and the setting of the plate in his neck. He is also happy that he has mobility in his left leg and some in his right, though at the moment his right leg is not useable at all. His right arm is still a concern but the fact that he has feeling and some slight movement is very promising. Jim and I have already had lengthy discussions about the merits of having a robot arm with interchangeable attachments; hook, clamp, disk, swizzle stick….the possibilities are truly endless. In fact even when he does regain full use of his arm (and he will) I think he should still have one installed anyway because it would look pretty cool. Again, I am not a doctor.

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There will be lots of rehabilitation and physiotherapy required and quite a long road ahead. If anyone is able to recommend a physiotherapist that will  a) be able to come do home visits and  b) be able to tolerate extended amounts of daily shit talks. Please forward us some recommendations to either trudycraig@hotmail.com or tracycraig@gmail.com

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