Getting Ahead of Myself

I intended to start this some time back but you know how it goes. Maybe later... maybe later... and later never gets here.

I'm not going to give a detailed status update about my dad's condition, at least not in medical terms. My sole purpose of this blog is to keep track of my dad's condition and how the rest of the family (mainly myself) are coping with it.

A brief flashback. On October 31st, my brother found my dad lying on the toilet floor in a pool of blood, in an almost comatose-like state. Tonight will be 11 days since that incident and my dad's still in the hospital. He was in the ICU for 2 and a half days. We shifted him to the 'A' wards on Tuesday (3/11) in the mid-afternoon. On Monday (9/11) morning, we shifted him to the 'B1' wards and that's where he currently is.

His condition. My dad cannot sit or stand by himself. He has a cathater; one for food and one to remove his pee. He is able to move all of his limbs except for the right leg but his right hand is terribly weak. He cannot speak full sentences and can only say very few words: ok, fine, bye etc. Mainly monosyllabic words. He is currently undergoing speech and physiotherapy but we need to get him into a rehab centre for more extensive exercise.