Dads hanging in there - he's still up here on the 5th floor in a regular room, versus one of the many ICU rooms he's been in over the past three weeks. The doctors have been trying to figure out the cause of the air that's still floating around inside his chest cavity that prevents his lung from expanding all the way. They just came in and added a new, larger chest tube which, based on this last X-ray, has now allowed his lung to expand. Now they're hoping that we'll see these air pockets subside and be able to take this tube out in a few days. At best, he'll be here at least 3-4 more days, poor guy!
We're all ready for him to get out of here, as fun as this place is :). I had a dream the other night that I couldn't find my dad in the hospital and as I ran back into the elevator and went to push another button, they now said "1 3/4ths floor, 2 8/9ths floor - just like the train station in Harry Potter, and I had to run at the doors really fast to try to get off. This place is starting to make us all a little crazy! Hopefully we'll all be laughing about this one day soon as we're sitting at home around a nice fire and NOT listening to the old hacking cough and watching him haul his oxygen around. It's still a wonderful life :)
