Not too much to report, apparently

I talked to Mom and Dad today and they are still having trouble getting online at the hospital.

The udpate is that Dad was sitting in the chair, and was picking at his lunch. Mom said he even ate a piece of mac & cheese (that wasn't Kraft dinner!). And that he had not had any pain meds today and maybe not yesterday either. That's impressive.

Dad said that when he first gets up to walk (they've had him walk around the room with a walker at least once each day), or do anything, it's very painful, but then the pain abates. I suspect that his pain threshold has increased dramatically in the last few months. And the rest of us wimps would not be handling it as well.

The infection specialist was in today and said that they were still growing the cultures and so far had found staph (again) and two other bugs, names had not yet been determined. But already they know that he will be back on the IV drip of antibiotics at the hospital daily for 6 weeks for the staph. Again. So they will have to plan their days, for some time, around the daily hospital visits. No word on what other measures will be taken for the other bugs yet, but I'm sure there will be some.

He sounded pretty good, considering that he's being held against his will and forced to endure numerous indignities. Including eating hospital food.

Someone will update when there is news to report, I'm sure.