Praise God, Dan hasn't passed out again, so the adustment to his heart and blood thinner meds must have done the trick. FYI, VP Dick Cheney was treated yesterday for afib and received the cardiac ablation procedure - this is what Dan has and the treatment I blogged about on Tuesday - you can read about it at www.honoluluadvertiser.com and search back issues for Wednesday, October 16 (or just google it) - pretty good info on afib and cardiac ablation which the article calls "electric shock".
Today's good news: Dan went to the rehab gym again and rode for 10 minutes on the NuStep Recumbent Cross Trainer, reminds me of a sitting down Nordic Track, it exercises both arms and legs. Dan then walked with the parallel bars, he walked forward then backward then side steps. A very good day's workout. The PTs said they notice a difference in just the past few days. More good news: we enjoyed visits today from Nancy Norwood, pastor's wife from First Southern Scottsdale; Sean Lathrop, director of Next Generation Ministries at my workplace-Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention; and Vicki McDermott, a professional jazz singer and also a pastor's wife who visits Mayo Hospital to sing for patients. And praise God for Dan's sister Debbie getting to visit during the week while she's on fall break from school, and of course I am grateful for Dan's folks being here every day, they are the best.
Today's challenges: Actually beginning Wednesday evening. Dan coughed up some blood and also passed some blood in the stool. Doctors are watching this closely, they do not think it is an active bleeder but old blood, and they suspect all the blood thinner he has been getting has something to do with it. His labs show his blood count stable, if this number had decreased that could indicate internal bleeding. They decreased the coumadin hoping this will take care of it. Again, the doctors do not want to stop his PT exercises and are keeping close watch of this.
Things change so quickly and we never know what to expect each day, and it's pretty unnerving. God reminded me of this promise today, I really like it in The Message version: "Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes." (Matthew 6:34 The Message)
Aloha from the desert,
Debbie and Dan
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