Saturday, July 26, 2008
Yesterday...Friday We, that is Elden, Connie, Bill & Ellen, went to visit Leon and Eva at St. Vincent's hospital in Billings. We found Leon in Room 532 in the stroke unit asleep. He is under 24 hour per day observation, someone is in the room all the time. That morning they had done some surgery to put a tube into his stomach so that he can receive nourishment because he can't swallow. He also has MRSA infection http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/understanding-mrsa-methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus I looked that up and found the indicated link which is a discussion of it.We didn't stay there long, just long enough for the nurse to tell us his condition and why they'd done surgery. It didn't appear that a long stay would be satisfying to him or us, so we went looking for Eva. We found her room just as Butch and Diane had stepped out, so we visited with them for a while. Then when the nurses finished what they were doing we went in and visited Eva a little while. She is looking better. She tries to communicate and appears to be making some progress. She seemed happy to see us. I told her that she had found a good place to hide out as I had a hard time finding her room. (But then I get lost really easily!)Yesterday was a long day. We left home at 5:00 AM, went to the temple and did our shift there until noon. Then we took in a session with Ellen and Bill after which we went and did the visiting. Following our visit at the hospital we went to the Golden Corral and you all know what goes on there! We enjoyed the meal and visit! Then, Connie and I went and visited a few minutes with Connie's sister Judy. To finish off the day we went to the temple again for the 6:20 session. Our ward was to be there...The Bishop and wife, his 1st counselor and wife were the only ones to show. I had somewhat of a hard time staying awake. I think I went unconcious at least twice! We arrived back home at 10:00 pm and went right to bed, we were really tired. And now this morning I am REtired, just got back from a long walk and I'm putting off mowing the pasture!
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I didn't know Uncle Leon had another stroke! Lucky he was at the hospital at the time, right? It's sad to hear about these two in the condition that they are. Hopefully they can recover.
Thank you for the update. That sounds like a tiring day, but well spent. I am sure they appreciated your visit to the hospital.
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