Today is a good day - he responded to a command! When asked to wiggle his toes, he does. He'll also move his head to look in the direction my mom's voice is coming from, which he was starting to do yesterday. She put a football game on for him and on occasion, he seems to watch it.
Still no word on the results of that culture they did a few days ago. Today's nurse didn't seem to know anything about it, but perhaps that only means the culture did not grow and she doesn't need to be adding any other meds to his regiment.
If all continues on the same trajectory, the surgeon will likely close up his abdomenal incision early next week. Hopefully, this is our last setback for a while and the sepsis doesn't have any long term effects on his recovery.
We're back to where we were just before Christmas - except his trach is working now. Still no long-term diagnosis, but from the stories I've heard people do make amazing recoveries with lots of time and hard work. The Tuesday and Wednesday after Christmas were his 'best' days so far, the time when the doctors had moved him out of the ICU, so perhaps next week will be a good one for him.
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