I’m all verklempt now.
I am so happy to hear about the snowballing recovery. May things continue to improve.
I am so happy to hear this good news! I can’t wait to hear the day he gets to go home!
now we do the dance of joy! 
+1
& **HOODY HOO **for such good news!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D
I love all the good news! Keep it coming!
Oh that’s wonderful news. So good to hear.
I briefly forgot what the heck you were talking about and pictured something sorta like “The Shining.” 
That really touched me - how many people said they check this thread. That was nowhere near why I started it, or kept posting, or anything. I just had all this … stuff inside, and I had to put it somewhere. It still amazes me that people read it.
Oh, they have long ago made him promise to come back and say hi.
Yeah. Me too.
ETA: Change your clocks, USA-dopers!
A wise man once said..
And I stole it. 
Still applies.
-D/a
LOL - I didn’t get it either and was thinking “huh? I thought she and the inlaws were doing OK now…
” :). Hadda search the thread.
I wasn’t online at all yesterday and missed the initial “not on the vent at all!” thing - what a lot of great news to see today :).
Uh , purp, you and TOS are family to us. We care about you guys. If you doubt this look at the number page views this thread has.
Now if you will excuse me I have some happy dancing to catch up on.
Oh, oops, sorry about that. I was too happy about the no vent thing to be clear.:smack:
Happy dance and prayers for more good news keep coming.
Aand a little more judicious happy dancing 
please send me purple’s email? I have (finally!!) some money I can kick in to help.
I am so pleased to hear the progress of TOS. :):)
I think I’ve responded via PM to those who wanted it, but PLEASE hassle me if you haven’t gotten a reponse.
He’s still OK today, and polished off his breakfast entirely. The plan timeline so far is to:
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get him standing sometime this week, like Tuesday or Wednesday. (I really don’t see how this can work, since his legs and feet don’t work, but … ooookay… I figure it’s less “standing” and more “hoisted to perpendicular by a couple of brawny people…”
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get him out of acute care and into in-patient physical rehab around the week of U.S. Thanksgiving (11/19 or so … ). Of course he (well, WE) would like to skip that step and have him the holy hell HOME already but I suppose we’ll have to be patient.
He’s been gone so long** I’ve gotten used to:
- rolling around on the bed when I can’t sleep and taking over his side
- farting with wild abandon
- eating what I want, when I want
- watching tons of animal documentaries on Animal Plamet
- talking to the cats (that can’t be good … )
** A quarter of a year?!?! WTF?!?!
They may be putting him in a standing frame. Basically they strap you in in an upright position so you can be erect but not have to use all the usual muscles for it. I’m not sure exactly the mechanics of it (I’m in speech, not PT) but I saw a 92-year-old man who’d been in a wheelchair for years using one with a physical therapist and he seemed to be having fun. She got him all set up and then he just enjoyed the view for 15-20 minutes.
Huh. Neat!
Feel free to unload everything in your brain about speech therapy … (Not sure how much they’re doing with him, since he can TALK and all!
Are his legs not working just from disuse and muscle atrophy, or was it part of the virus?
Obviously they did the swallow test (I think those are done by speech pathologists) but might there be some retraining needed as he gets back into eating real food and ultimately getting rid of the trach?
Speaking of that: he still has that, right? is he still breathing through that or does it get capped off?
Have they started any kind of PT evaluation or therapy? or will that wait until he goes for rehab?
Still has the trach (it’s weird-looking to see a hole in his throat!) but it will eventually be capped. He has occupational and physical therapy coming around every day.