This morning, Patti and the kids, myself and the the Jones’ drove down to see Daniel. When we got there, he was in a sleepy state and we let him know that we were there. But, his bed is cozy and warm, he just kinda looked at us and drifted back off. Patti woke him back up and asked if he recognized us. She asked if he knew I was, and he said, “Ya, that’s Sven.” Then she pointed to Tom and asked about him and he looked at Tom, gave him the look over and you could tell he recognized him, but couldn’t come up with his name. So, I volunteered the information, saying, “It’s world famous Tom Jones, Daniel!” He smiled and then Patti quizzed him who she was. He didn’t say Patti, but I did hear him say ‘my wife’, but she didn’t hear it. She was joking with him telling him it was bad that he knew my name but not hers. I told her I’m hard to forget ’cause I’m so loud. She laughed at that.

Tom had to rush off to work but before he left, Tom, Patti and I laid hands upon Daniel and prayed for him. We told him that we were going to lay hands on him and he fully understood and shook his head yes. We just prayed that God would work in him mightily, bring him back to health, fill Daniel with His presences and if it were His will, have Daniel walk again. It was a good prayer time and I’m glad we got to do it. I know Patti was very happy, too.

Patti then went and brought the kids. Daniel has only seen Stephanie once, briefly, since the accident and none of the boys. So, this was special. When the all came in, he was in his dozy state and wasn’t talking too much. He did recognize the children and he smile a few times at them. Both Jared and Stephanie read him home made cards to him and opened them up to show him. Their meeting was brief but good. I know Daniel was glad to see them and it was a relief for the children to finally see daddy.

After the children’s visit, the Jones’ left and we went to the cafeteria and had lunch. Well, they did and I ran over to Erik’s Deli and grabbed my favorite and came back and ate with the silly hot dog group. Steph’ commented on how good my sandwich looked and I told her, “All sandwiches are this good at Erik’s!” hehehehe, I think she’ll go with me next time.

When we got back upstairs, we saw his father , Ted. He had actually bumped into us on the way down and we kinda filled him in on what was going on. So, we met back up with him and I hung out with him and Daniel as the nurse really wanted to try to keep it to two visitors at a time. Ted and Daniel talked some and then Daniel’s cousin Nadine and good and long time friend from Junior High, Richard, stopped in to see him. Richard is an officer of the law and I told Daniel that he had to be careful when Richard came in. Don’t call him ‘ossifer’ as that’s the first sign to them that there’s something wrong. Daniel totally laughed at that. Through the conversation with Richard, Richard at one point told Daniel that morphine is your friend in times like these and Daniel said yes and totally laughed.

Now Nadine is a nurse herself and she has some pep in her. She wasn’t having any of Daniel’s doze state and forced him to talk to her. She told him that they drove a long distance and that he needed to talk to her (in a sweet, loving way, of course) and he said, “I know , I know. Ok, ok.” It was funny to see her really get him talking. She asked him a bunch of stuff and he responded to most of it, but much of the response was like we were getting, work related information. Things having to do with “firing up” a truck, moving a crane and starting a new pile. She was holding his hands and asking him to squeeze her hands and he was trying to do that. She asked him if he could move his fingers and he said, “I don’t know, I haven’t tried yet.” It was an interesting response.

After that, the kids came in one more time to say goodbye and then he was visited by Connie and Aunt Georgia. I was out with Patti, the kids, Richard and Nadine, so I didn’t get any pictures of that, but they did come back out and say they did enjoy their visit with him. Aunt Georgia will be coming back to see him Wednesday.

I got a group picture, minus Trevor who didn’t want to sit with everyone, right before we left. So go to the digipix section and check that and the other thirty odd pictures from today. There’s a really good one of him laughing in there, too!

I told him that his son likes Raiders and should like Steelers.

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