Move to Rehab and Out Again-- Monday 1/23/06 11:50 PM

This was a interesting 24 hours. It began with sleep deprivation therapy (at least that's how it felt), the night was disturbed every few minutes. Then this morning we started the preparation to move to Rehab. Joseph was very excited to get going. A little after noon we actually began the migration with all the stuff to the 4th floor, North section of LDS Hospital to the Neuro Speciality Rehabilitation Unit. Gloria and Tim had the grand tour and were given their reading assignments etc. to begin the rehab process. Later in the afternoon we had a wonderful visit from Elder Hilbig of the Seventy (the Executive Director of the Audiovisual Department). The warm and kindness of his visit was so helpful.
A little later Joseph was having trouble breathing when they rolled him to his left side (for some reason, in the random rolling to one side then the other, to avoid bed sores, he has never been rolled to his left before, we hadn't realized it until Joseph mentioned it). A pulmonary specialist came and they prepared to do some another CT scan to see if it might be from a blood clot or something else. The results were negative for the blood clot but it was clear the pneumonia was worse. The doctors made the decision to move him to the Respitory ICU for a couple of days to get the pneumonia under control. Joseph went "willingly because he had to". His attitude has been so humble, willing, and wonderful that Heavenly Father cannot help but bless him. This is a disapointment but only a bump on the road to recovery. The room (C503) is very spacious and comfortable, and the staff in all the areas have been very helpful. But he does look forward to getting into rehab and starting the work back. He has lost about 15 lbs so far. . . lean, but not very mean.