Rehab (x2)

Michael has had quite a day. In the morning we got up and took a long walk followed by a shower! He is a strong lad and it takes my 200 lbs of solid six-pack muscle to handle him. (OK 200 +) He followed that up with some ice cream - yum.

The bigger news is that the doctors have finished up the treatments and tests and we are now in a new room in the rehab floor! Yea. It is a big difference in making just a short move (up one floor). The hospital is all about tests, diagnosis, poking, prodding, exploring, and medications that are not very nice. But his doctors and nurses were very nice and did get Michael much better than when he arrived here. For that we are very grateful.

The rehab folks have a different mindset in that their job is to work your butt off to make you better. The therapists have been visiting Michael but now they will have him for a minimum of 3 hours a day to work on his skills. Another yea.

I am not sure we will ever know exactly what happened to make Michael so sick. We know he had a nasty case of HSV, but me thinks there was something else that followed that made him sicker. Unfortunately, there is no definitive test or analysis that you can point at and say Aha, that's it! All I can say is that at this moment in time, he is clear of viruses and has had his blood treated and immune system boosted. There should be nothing working against him and hopefully his brain can get about the business of healing. His MRI's show a lot of inflammation so it will take some time, but I am already seeing improvement and some words are coming out loud and clear.

I am betting on him and hope he kicks some ass.