Sunday September 14...1:00 pm

YEAH!!!! (That's one exclamation point for each one in our family - Robert, Jeanette, Rosanna and Robby)
They extabated (sp?) him today so the tube that was making him crazy is out!
When I told him they were taking it out and that was good news, he nodded harder than ever.
He is trying to talk - the first words we could understand were, "when can I go home?" The next word was after I told him it is Sunday morning and the kids are at church. He started mumbling something and the only word I could understand was "church". I finally asked him if he was asking about Sunday School at church and he nodded yes. I told him everything at church is looked after and he relaxed. Next the word I could understand was "house" and sure enough, he wanted to know about the gravel and drainage ditch project we were in the middle of completing. So, his mind went to the very last conversations we had 11 days ago. Right before the attack, the last conversation I remember, we were discussing his need to find a Sunday School teacher. It's like his brain today picked up where it left off! I asked if he was hot and he said yes - the rash appears to be like a heat rash - everywhere something is against him, the rash is the worst. So I told him that he has pulled off every robe they have put on him. I said to Richard, his current safety companion, this man must like to be naked...and Robert grinned and we could tell he chuckled by the way his belly moved!
I look forward to now concentrating on what comes next...I haven't talked to the Dr about the condition of his pancreas, so hopefully soon I will know what the next focus will be. So far today his heart is stable and his breathing and oxygen are stable.
That's good news.
This is a good day.

~Jeanette