Joye's Update 4/19/08

I saw a different Andrew for a period of time today. He's was sort of angry. Not a "I'm mad at the world" depressed anger, but a fierce sort of anger. He was very determined today to breath with C-Pap as long as he could. He did it for about 2.5 hours. He would have gone much longer, but he had some secretions that needed to be suctioned during and it sort of wore him out. He's resting now, but I believe they will put him on C-Papp again tonight for a little while. He really wants to try to get off the ventilator so that he can go directly to the rehab hospital for his spinal cord condition, rather than to the one that will have to rehab him off the vent first. I know he can do it, especially now that I see how determined he really is. We just need to keep praying . . . God will heal him. I will begin looking at rehab hospitals on Monday. If anyone of you have any experience with this sort of thing, I would be grateful to hear from you. I've been told the best spinal cord rehab facility in the Phoenix area is Good Samaritan. I was surprised, because I had always heard Barrows was the best (I think it is the best for surgery, etc.) Andrew's Doctor is a Barrows doc and even he believes Good Sam is the best place for his condition. But truly, if anyone out there has been through or had experience with someone who's been through a spinal cord injury . . . I would love to hear from you. I have no problem taking any kind of advice in order to get Andrew in the very best place he can be. Well, I think I'll quit for now . . . we're very tired today as there was a lot of activity in the CCU last night (new patients and trouble with other ones too). Thank you again for all your prayers and words of encouragement. God Bless. Joye