Late start on updates this morning.....sorry

My poor mother is exhausted. I can hear it in her voice. I'm feeling so guilty that I'm not there....I should be, but I can't. It sucks!
Anyway, it doesn't seem like updates differ at all. Everyday is therapy, everyday he gets a little better, everyday he's annoyed he's there, every night he can't sleep.....same old same old. Last night they did a sleep study on him and apparently he got NO sleep. I don't know the results on that yet but of course when I know I will post it. Dad's blood pressure was a little high again today but they went ahead and did therapy anyway. He is with the speech therapist now and will be doing another swallow test. Watching Dad go through all of this is taking a toll on Mom. We tend to focus so much on the patient sometimes we forget how hard it can be on the loved ones.....good thing she's so strong!

I was able to get the full details on Travis's story..... He has Histoplasmosis.  It's a nasty fungus that is incredibly difficult to get rid of but it is curable. YAY!  He will be going back to the hospital everyday for 2-3 months for IV therapy.
The story on how he got it is actually a scary one but it makes you understand just what kind of a person he is. He was kayaking down a river in the jungle of Ecudor with a friend and his friends kayak tipped and went underwater and he got stuck under a rock. Trav dove in to save him and in the process swallowed a whole bunch of water. And that is how he ended up with Histoplasmosis......but he saved a life in the process! I'm proud of Travis and I am so happy to know he will make a full recovery!!

Today I am very stir crazy. I need to get out of the house and enjoy the beautiful weather. Tyler is a t work so I decided to take the kids on a picnic. We are going to Fain Park. We have never been there but it is only a 5 minute drive from our house.  I will post pictures soon!