an update

so thanks first to sarah for setting up this blog, i have heard that it is a great idea from a lot of people and so now i guess i may as well use it. i hope that you all got my first update some way or another, if you didn't then just ask on the blog and i'll set it up there. it will be easier to not exactly go through everything so if you wanted to really know what happened then it's in the first message that i put up.

any way, Aaron is doing better, he is doing a lot of breathing on his own again now, they have almost turned off the respirator but they are still keeping him intibated in case things go back the other way. so they have told him that if things keep going well then they will take it out quite soon, but he is still having a fair bit of pain when he breathes. other than that, we sat down and read through the first chapter and a half of the fellowship of the ring, and then he was groggy and wanted a rest.

Dad got in for surgery yesterday and so his fore arm is now all pinned back together, but he is still waiting for the swelling to go down in his foot before they can do surgery in there. other than that he is having a decent time, he has some fun nurses that seem to enjoy his courtesy and kind of his sense of humour, it makes it better because the guy next to him in bed is a whiner and called the nurse a bitch the other day, and he wonders why they are slow to help him... but dad gets things all right away. so he is in pretty good spirits, thanks a lot to rob who put some stuff on his ipod for him, he is enjoying that!

mom is doing better too, she is much more responsive, she is doing all she can to be physical, but even still she is hardly able to nod her head, it's almost more of a facial nod with her eyebrows, it's quite cute, but i still have a hard time to see my mom reduced to that. we talked to the doctor about her improvements and they are still concerned about all of the swelling in her body; they are contributing the inability to use her arms to that and they are taking her for another MRI as soon as possible to make sure that everything is still okay up around her head and neck. her breathing is still fairly dependant on the respirator and so she will have it in for a couple days yet. we got to hang out with her for a while and read the first bit of the chronicles of narnia to her, but then she got tired and couldn't concentrate anymore so, that was that for today.

I am hoping to stay here in edmonton until dad is up and about-ish, and until aaron and mom are out of the ICU. my best friend has come up here with me for a while, jason is unfortunately stuck at home with pneumonia, so that's funny timing. any way, everything is going as good as it can be for now, all bleedings are under control and they are slowly regaining strength. all of your thoughts and prayers are very much appreciated!

chris