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I just left Dad's room. Mom went to Crosby to get papers and stuff for bills that needed to be taken care of and to love on those sweet puppies she misses so much! She knows they will lick her and love on her and lift her spirits!
I ran to Walgreens this afternoon and printed some pictures off, took them up to his room and just about covered the windows in there. They are nice to look at to keep us motivated about how truly blessed we are.
Some amazing men from Dad's work dropped by this afternoon. Man, I tell you what the Lord is answering our prayers for comfort and love and reassurance. I got a card this afternoon from all the guys at the plant that love him... the inside of this card was literally filled with people wishing him well. I got to talk to them and they just kept telling me how much everyone who he works with loves and cares about him, how great he is to work with and just be around. He has such a character about him that he just wants to do things for others... very selfless and thoughtful. It doesn't go unnoticed! He is being missed there right now and they are all in just as much shock about all of this as we are.
It sure isn't a coincidence that people surround you with love and comfort at times like this, and we sure don't take one bit of it for granted. The cards keep coming in, and we got a wonderful gift today which Mom doesn't know about yet, I wanted her to see it when she got back tonight. A prayer blanket. This blanket was blessed at a mass and prayed over for his healing and was given to us. What an amazing amazing gift. How special and wonderful!
As far as a status update - they took dad off the ativan sedation medication. It is completely shut off, but because it is a slow acting drug, it will be in his system and slowly wear off. Hopefully he has enough morphine in him for him to stay comfortable. His temp went up a little bit so they turned the cooling blanket on and gave him some Tylenol to bring the fever back down.
This afternoon while I was hanging pictures and talking he moved around a little, not like before or anything, but just to see a little bit of movement of him made me smile and feel a glimmer of hope.
I love you all and will write more tonight if we hear anything new.
Love Megan
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Good Morning Megan,
Great to have you back posting reports for all of us. Just wanted to let you know how much these reports are appreciated. Lots of folks have sent comments, but I know there are a bunch out there who are not "talking" but they are keeping an eye on how y'all are doing. I'm like everyone else, I check the blog many times during the day. Mark is my first thought when I wake up and my last before I get to sleep. We love all of you and wish there was more we could do to help. You are doing a great job keeping us informed. My admiration for how y'all are handling this.
Love, Janet (Mark's cousin)
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