We saw Jon around 11:30 a.m. today. Amy was there too. Today was one of Jon's down days. He wasn't nearly as alert today as he was last Thursday. In fact he was pretty out of it.
Apparently he was feeling restless last night and attempted to pull his IV tubes out last night. Subsequently, the nurses sedated him with a sleeping pill around midnight. Because Jon doesn't typically take medications, they tend to hit him pretty hard. He was completely passed out when we got there.
He awoke a little later, but wasn't very talkative and only minimally responsive to our questions. We don't know whether he was still experiencing the after-effects of the sleeping pill, or whether he was just tired. The whole time I got the feeling he just wanted to get out of the hospital.
Jon is still going to be there at least until the 8th, since that's when he's scheduled to finish his anti-viral treatement for the encephalitis.
According to Amy, Jon is having three therapies each day: physical therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy. When those start getting better, the doctors and therapists will decide if he needs to continue staying in that hospital.
The next progression is sending him to a skilled nursing facility, or possibly in-home care that Amy is looking into.
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Cam and I plan to visit TODAY, Monday the 3rd at 12:30pm. I have taken note that yesterday was not a good day for Jon. We will spend time asking him about various people in the limousine industry to help Jon with his memory. We are excited about seeing Jon. Sorry we could not make it yesterday due to conflicting plans.
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