When I got to the hospital today John was sleeping. He woke up at about 11am and said he felt pretty good. Although our doctor was supposed to be on call this weekend and said he would see us today, we never saw him so I did not get a chance to get his opinion on what happened last night.
In the afternoon Margie dropped around to the hospital and took me out for lunch at Tim Hortons. But when I got back John was beginning to show signs of rigidity. He told me that he was going home with me tonight. At first I thought he was joking because the lady in the bed across from him with dementia is always wanting to go hom - then I realized he was serious!! I had to tell him he has to stay there until they have a better handle on all of this. For the rest of the afternoon and all evening the symptoms seemed to come and go - never getting really bad but never being far away.
They switched the kind of antibiotics he is being given via intravenous - I thought that the pneumonia was doing well, but apparently the doctor was not happy with the progress so is trying a different kind. I am told he is to get it for 7 days - I don't know if that means he is definitely going to be there for the next week or not.
I ordered a TV for him today to help him fill the time (and to save my voice a little bit)
I have read one detective novel to him and we are over half way through Michael J Foxes book, Always Looking Up. My voice is getting rough!!!
The nurse gave John his sleeping meds at 9pm tonight so I could come home by 9:30pm. They are very helpful. 8:30am - 9:30 pm - feels like a long day.
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