Evening

Well, you learn something new everyday. Mark’s evening nurse told me about the Glasgow Trauma Scale. Here’s a link. http://www.trauma.org/scores/gcs.html
Seems they’ve been evaluating him every four hours for the last five weeks on his alertness. I had to do some arm twisting to get his numbers for today but it was a 9. Now I know what to ask for.

Mark had some voluntary movement tonight. He brought his hand up to his face and looked like he tried to scratch it. And he responded to pain with withdrawal. Except for when they draw blood and can’t find a vein, this is the worst thing to witness. Other than that, he’s medically stable.