I just got off the phone with Patti and here are the details on Daniel’s move to the Physical Therapy center today. He’s on the third floor and when Patti and the kids and her mother got there at 12:30, he was awake. He no longer has his special bed, so the nurses have to move him manually, again. He shares the room with one other guy and the it has room for two more people. When they brought him in, he told the nurse, “My wife isn’t going to like this”. The nurse asked who his wife was and he told her, “Patti”. So that gave Patti a good chuckle when they got there and the nurse was immediately able to call her by name.

Patti says she can tell Daniel’s becoming frustrated because he can’t do things or can’t remember things. He shows this when you ask him something and you can see him trying to think and being frustrated that it’s not “coming” to words. The doctors have voiced concern and want to do another test on his head again as well as on his legs to see if theres been further clotting in his legs.

As to Daniel’s memory, Patti said she picked up that he’s talking about when he was a welder, which was about fifteen years ago. He seems to know Stephanie but kinda doesn’t recognize Jared and doesn’t Trevor. Though he smiles at Trevor when Trevor kisses him goodbye, as if he just kinda knows there’s a connection between them both. On a funny note, they asked Daniel who Joyce was and he sat and thought and thought and thought and finally said, “She’s a dusty old cloud.” Too funny. Patti told her, “That’s your new name, mom. Perfect!”

He has also lost a lot of weight, about 25 pounds, and they believe it’s mainly muscles.

As to his physical therapy, he’ll be doing it from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. six days a week. The doctor said that you can visit after that and any time on Sunday. The nurse did tell Patti that there may be breaks through the day and then you can visit during that time, too. They said those breaks will be better defined when his schedule is completed. Patti didn’t know if they’d be doing PT on Christmas day or not. One very neat thing about his room is that you can spend the night with him in the room with him if you want as he has a cot next to him. So Patti, his father, sister or anyone could spend the night with him if they wanted. The center was very open to that.

So that’s what Patti could remember. She hopes that she can get there on Christmas and I hope to get out there soon, too. I’d like to get some pictures of his new place for you all to see and get a better idea of what he has a head of him. Please keep him and his family in prayer as their journey has just begun. Thanx!

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