Randy was incredibly active today! At one point, I told him that our four hands (his mother and myself) were losing against his one hand ~ he stuck his tongue out in a "ha ha" sort of way). He did get to the point that he was too much for us to handle and his blood pressure was elevated, which could be a sign of pain. So we gave in and said okay to the oxy stuff. Normally that stuff knocks him out, but it didn't! He was like the energizer bunny ~ he kept going and going and going... After the meds, he did calm down a little and his blood pressure went back to normal, so I am guessing he was in pain.
We had to keep his right hand restrained most of the day because he is so much stronger than we are and he was so determined in pulling everything off and out. He succeeded in pulling out his IV, but part of that was because the nurses were there and had untied him to move him and weren't paying close enough attention ~ he hasn't pulled out an IV yet when his mother and/or I are watching him! He even bite the finger of one of the nurses, hard enough to pull off part of her glove.
Randy did some talking today, but nothing quite on the level of recommending fish. At one point, he said out of the blue "If I could fly". At another time, when I asked him if he knew where he was at he said "I don't know" He actually said that a few times throughout the day to various questions. The nurse asked him some questions and he did good at responding to them, though not necessarily with the right answers. She asked him what year it was and he said 1924. She asked him how old he was and he said 24 (he is 29). She asked him what year he was born in and he said 75 (he was born in 76, I was born in 75). I am just happy that he was trying to answer her rather than doing to the random mumbling he did for so long.
He is coming back to us a little more every day.
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