Wed. June 15th

The move was successful. He opened his eyes quite a bit yesterday. The best news is that we watched the news last night. I placed the speaker next to his ear and he saw and heard President Shelton trying on his new jacket and talking about his new position. Whether he understood what was happening or not, he did raise an eyebrow. He stayed awake with me through Dateline, a little of Jay Leno and then he started nodding off during The Deadliest Catch; 1 1/2 hours with his eyes wide open truly incredible! We have pictures of the family taped to the wall and during our TV time, I took each picture, one by one for him to hold up for viewing. I'm hoping he recognized all of us. LOL!
The nurses came in every 2 hours to suction and turn him.
The physical therapist came in at 7:30 this morning to begin his exercising. Dad moved only his left side on command and the therapist helped exercise his right, his weak side. He sat up on the side of the bed but was not able to balance himself. So after 20 minutes of therapy, dad is now back resting. They'll get him up again later this afternoon to do it all over again. He's slowly coming back around. "Valdez is Coming...Back"