Matt Man VII

Tuesday morning. We 'slept' in a regular room last night. Let me add that 'sleep' is not quite the right word when you are in the hospital so let's change that to 'stayed in a regular room.'

The good news is that after a horrible day yesterday, he's doing much, much better. He had a good 4 hour nap late yesterday which was good for the move from ICU. After getting up here, he listened to some tunes on his iPod and then I had to force him to go to bed.

He's handling the junk in his throat a lot better. He's off of his oxygen for now. He's keeping his oxygen levels in a decent range without the O2 so that's also good. He's getting in and out of bed easily when directed.

He's also got his sense of humor back - in part due to some pain medication - but as the doctor said to Matt as he left the room, "If you are fist bumping, then I don't think you need to be in the hospital." :)

The plan for the day is to see speech again to see if he can swallow and ultimately eat by mouth instead of by tubes. If all goes well, the ENT doc thinks we could get out of here tomorrow!

I would love to have God's vision of all of this. I believe pretty strongly that when a number of people come together and pray for something that God moves. He's told us in the book of James that if we are in trouble, we should pray. I know a number of you have prayed. When you add up all of those prayers, God moves. Not that we manipulate God, because we can't, but it's like ALL of your children asking you for the same thing. You think about it more simply because of the number of requests. So thanks for praying, it's having an affect.