Day 27

SUNDAY EVENING OCTOBER 7, 2007

What a difference a day makes. As soon as I arrived at the hospital he wanted to get out of bed and for me to give him his bath. Before I could get the nurse in the room to help me move him to the chair his kidney doctor came in. He seemed very optimistic today. His output has greatly improved and the doctor said quantity comes first and then quality second. That was good news. He still has a lot of bloody drainage coming from his stomach and cannot wait to get the NG tube out. The surgeon said that he thought he heard very faint belly sounds. that is the first time he has said he heard anything. I only got to stay until 2:30 because my son had a ball game and my daughter cheers for the team and I have only gone to one game because of Jeff being in the hospital. After I left he did have visitors, my friend that directs our Boychoir stopped by to visit and our friends that we shared a beach house with this summer went to visit him. My sister and her husband are in town to visit so they left my kid's ballgame early and went to visit him and called on their way home and said that they even got him to laugh. (Today he had wonderful nurses. I truly believe that the attitude of the nurses makes a difference in how he feels)