I went to see Elwyn tonight at Tulsa's famous Saint Francis Hospital in the Cardiac unit. He is hooked up to a machine that beeps intermittently when his Heart rate, blood pressure, breathing , pulse, etc. etc are too high or too low. You have to be there to fully unappreciate it. Elwyn doesn't like it either. I had the nurse come in to silence it, and she did, but it kept beeping intermittently, and I would run over and hit the yellow mute button to silence it.
Elwyn is in good spirits and tells me that he didn't know that he had pneumonia. He said that it came on all the sudden, he called his sister, she called emsa, and they took him away to Saint Francis.
He tried watching daytime TV on the main channels (the view) and said that it would rot your brain. He is now watching the discovery channel and really likes it. I brought him a laptop to use, but he has trouble reading and using the keyboard while it is on his lap. He also has trouble reading the screen; the whole thing is too far away from him. and there is no way of getting it closer. Hospital beds are not made to use laptops on.
He is in a good mood and looks and acts like Elwyn. The only difference that I noticed is that he is less inhibited than he normally is. This will probably pass. I doubt that Elwyn will remember too much about this time in his life.
He said that his food tastes bad, and the only thing he could eat today was a banana, and that water and milk tasted pretty good. Things smell wrong also.
He is improving, and for that we are grateful. Elwyn is an integral part of the Gluedobbers, and one of the nicest and most generous guys that you will ever meet.
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