Dad and a few grandkids at Lagoon (summer 2007)It has now been two days since the surgery and so far Dad is, according to the nurses, "doing amazingly well." We are proud of him and his accomplishments. One nurse told us that most patients who have gone through a particularly rough surgery are not up and about for days. But, he was up and walking less than 12 hours after his surgery, took several laps around his ward yesterday and today walked to the waiting area near his room, around the set of elevators and back to his room. Quite the marathon for him and he wasn't even breathing heavy when he finished.
He had quite a few visitors today, mostly family. (Thank you all) So he will probably sleep well tonight, at least as well as anyone can in a hospital. He doesn't go too long without a nurse coming in and checking on him, or some machine beeping, but we are grateful for the good nurses who have been caring for him and their hard work.
There really isn't much new to report other than he is healing well and he is very optimistic (like Dad can be anything else :) ). We are all grateful for the prayers on his and our behalf as well as the beautiful flowers, food and well wishes sent our way. Thank you so much. We also appreciate the comments made on this blog. We read each of them to Dad and your thoughts mean a lot to all of us.
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Carl--Bishop Ericksson, Brother Ericksson, our good neighbor, has always been an example and touchstone for me. I hope you know how much I look up to you and appreciate your service, work, kindness and the fact that you can speak Swedish more than you know. how you keep doing well. We will miss you at group meeting tomorrow.
Be well
Rick
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