Another room change - downgrade this time

Good Morning,
Liam has been moved again, just a couple doors down to 272, bed 2. He is in a shared room again, I think they moved him becuase they needed a single room for a patient on contact isolation. The woman in his old room is on contact isolation, so they don't want any other patients around her so they don't get whatever she has, and she doesn't get anything else from them or their families. The frustrating part is that they didn't move all of his stuff, I eventually got them to bring everything out of the closest, my blankets, snacks, magazines and books. But, they hadn't removed everything from the walls, and that stuff can't be moved because of the new patients state. It sucks because he lost some of the drawings that James and Marcus kids drew and some of his cards. He lost his private room and his awesome view of the harbor and park, which sucks. But his new room is okay. The other patient was getting dressed and walked out of the room to go home just as I came in. I don't know when they will bring someone else in.

Yesterday was another long, but great day. He spent time with all three therapists (speech, occupational, and physical) and was very successful. He (with help of course) stood up a couple times, shuffled around the room a bit, and even did a little dancing for us all by himself! Someone had made a comment about Liam being a great dancer and he smiled and started shaking his hips and moving his arms dancing, it was very cute and fun to watch. He loved it, and so did all of us. He was also able to put on pants and socks yesterday with just the tinniest bit of help from the occupational therapist - the biggest thing hindrance for him is not being able to use his left arm. If he had use of his left arm he wouldn't need help with these things.

They also started him on some broad spectrum antibiotics last night since his white counts have been high. They can't find a source or infection, but they want to try to knock down whatever is causing the rise in white cells. So far they have dropped a tiny bit, but not much. They just keep checking and trying to figure it out.

He loves visitors, and definitely recognizes everyone and love to interact. So keep coming to see him. He also really likes the cards and pictures, so keep those coming also.