Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Mark was completely unresponsive to me today, but his nurse Frank said he followed commands earlier. His fever is only at 101.4, not nearly what it had been recently. Frank told me that his doctors were discussing going ahead with the shunt tomorrow since they don't think he has an infection. His cultures will probably come back by tomorrow morning, but his white count was normal, if they were elevated it would have shown an infection relatively soon.

I have an appointment to check out Bryn Mawr Rehab Center tomorrow and speak to Janet Belitsky, Ph.D., a neurophychologist. I've talked to her a few times and she has always been very encouraging.

I bought a white board at Staples today, hopefully Mark will be able to write me another note someday soon.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Mark ... we're all praying for you and thinking about you. Get better soon!

Ken McCluskey

Anonymous said...

Mark,

You are missing some prime Louisiana political theater. Your imbedded reporter is dying to send you some dispatches. For example, the Monroe Chamber of Commerce auctioned off a dinner with Gov. Blanco. The winner bid $1.

We now have a state representative camping out on the capital lawn to protest slow payouts from Gov Blanco's Road Home Program.

Both the House and Senate passed resolutions urging Gov. Blanco to fire ICF International, the carpet bagging yankee company that was hired to run the program for $765 million. So far, they have been paid $60 million and only managed to cut 85 checks out of more than 89,000 applications.

Stay tuned for more about the "sleeping poicemen" on the road home.