We landed a little after 7pm last night, and made it to the hospital shortly thereafter. Dad was good, actually. He was grumpy, of course... And mom had a tons of hilarious grumpy-Billy stories from being there all day (she almost just let his wheel chair roll down the hill on a little venture outdoors...) - But we were thankful that we had Jesse with us so that he had to sort of "behave" in the evening... He was still grumpy, but doing the usual Billy thing... Making himself giggle a little along the way. My best friends from college, Bridget & Jason, sent Dad a balloon a few weeks ago while he was in the ICU... As soon as we got there and he was talking about how "wacked out" he was, he pointed to the balloon and said "Get that thing outta here!!" He told us he had been having a "staring contest" with it for days now and that it wouldn't ever say anything back to him.... Hahahhahahahah, we were dying laughing.... He was somewhat serious, but knew what he was talking about - Knew that he was just going crazy from coming off the sedatives and being in the hospital for so long. He compared the balloon to "Wilson" in the movie Castaway... :)! Anywho... We visited for about 30 minutes then he kicked us out because he wanted to try and get some sleep.
We are on our way back up there right now - Hoping to finally talk to a DOCTOR, darnit!! We are trying to figure out a discharge timeline... People were mentioning today, but a doctor that stopped by yesterday said "no way"... He is throwing up his food (according to him, want to find out why), and still has very little mobility in his right arm (mostly shoulder... due to nerve damage in his C4 disk apparently...). He is still coughing a bunch, but they seemed to be "productive", and he was spitting "loogies" into a cup. :) He is VERY skinny... Looks eerily like my Grandmother right now...
Okay!! Can't wait to see some of y'all! After church we are off to hear the wonderful Gates speak at Christ Church...
Love, Hallie
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