August 22, 2012 - 4:00 visit

Just time for a short post tonight (well, not really but I will anyway).

Gretchen was out of it for the most part at the 4:00 visit but there was a crowd so she may have been playing opossum.  We had a crowd because I went back to work for half a day today.  That meant Peter didn't go with me to the 10:00 visit and his grandparents brought him down for the 4:00 visit (they usually only come for 8:30) and we had a couple of other family members as well.

She is still battling a fever.  They are treating the UTI and I don't think they had the results of the blood cultures, yet.  If they come back negative they will probably take new specimens to culture so they can figure out why the temp is elevated.  There was also some leakage where the drain had been (don't know if it was straight blood or if it was from inside the skull).  The doctor put a couple more stitches in and the nurses put a pressure bandage on it.  They are going to watch it and the CT scans to make sure we are okay.

The case manager asked me if we were considering therapy and if so, where.  I told her we were and (playing dumb to get her reaction) said I had heard good things about Siskin.  Apparently she wanted me to pick Siskin, both by the reaction on her face and the fact that she never asked if that was what I wanted to go with.  I didn't tell her that one friend had told me that if we didn't pick Siskin he would have some serious words with me.  Apparently that means she has reached the point where they want to get a baseline so that they can measure her progress.

I removed a paragraph here.  It talked about Gretchen being awake yesterday at 10:00.  It mentioned something that Gretchen would be horrified to find out that I mentioned (even though I wasn't specific).  If you read it please forget it.  We can rejoice that she was awake for most of the 20 minutes I was there.

Being back at work today was good but I barely got my email cleared and took care of a couple minor things.  It is amazing how many people in my underground bunker haven't heard the details, just the rumors.  I don't mind telling people (I actually enjoy talking about what God has done through this) but somebody is paying for me to tell this over and over.  (To offset the cost of my repeated explanations could everyone reading this in the TVA area please leave an extra light on 24x7 for the next year to cover my pay)

Well, I have gone on for too long (this is short???).  Goodnight and thank you for the prayers and encouragement.