Mother’s taking a short nap and I’ll take her back up to the hospital in a few minutes. My sister Terry is staying with dad right now. She’ll then be able to go back home. The Internist told us this morning that they were working on getting him in a position to go into physical therapy so he can relearn what he has lost and get enough strength to be able to care for himself.

The physical therapist also came over this morning to do an assessment. After that dad was pretty down. He wasn’t able to do very much that the therapist was asking. The doctor said that being depressed is common following a stroke. The brain has suffered some damage and the chemistry up there is not normal. They’ll give him some medication for that as well. As things currently look, I expect that by the end of the week he’ll be released to the nursing home in Soda Springs for physical therapy until he can walk reasonably well and can get around without falling. Then he’ll be able to go home. For him right now the future looks pretty bleak. I don’t think so … and hopefully as therapy progresses he’ll figure that out as well.