January 30th

If the time comes for insurance to kick him out of the hospital, we have to pick a skilled nursing facility for him to go to. Our number 1 choice is Younker rehab at Methodist. They have such great food there and that is obviously what matters. The rooms are pretty nice too.

Number 2 is Iowa Jewish Home. It is pretty hard to get in there. Apparently you have to be friends with the governor and have no ties to Hitler.

Number 3 is Carlisle Care Center. I never really saw any problems there when I was going in and out of there on the fire department other than the fire alarm constantly going off and 1 particular nurse or aide doing CPR on a DNR patient while the other was bagging the vomit back down her throat. (I hope no one is eating while reading this.) Other than that, the convenience of it for him and everyone will be of most importance. He will have so many of us able to visit him and be there a lot to make sure things are good.

The Nurse Practitioner from the Aneurysm Center in Minneapolis called me back just now. I gave her the low down and she asked for me to get his radiology images put on a disk and send it up to her for the doctor to look at. I just called Martha, but she didn't seem to thrilled about it after the way Chaloupka responded to this surgeon yesterday. She is going to talk to dad and see what he thinks.

Anyway, he had PT today, his back is really starting to get sore from laying around so much. He was eating pure'ed cheese pizza and some random veggies he didn't care for. Sounds yummy. Oh, and he has pooped twice today. Our family talks about poop a lot. Debbie got mad at us yesterday for talking about sharting when the doctors were on the way into the room.

:)