12/28 8:15 am

Last night was a good night. I didn’t sleep much, not because of Ethan, more from all the beeping machines. Ethan woke up a few times and his delirium is still there but MUCH less. He can be redirected, he can answer yes/no questions sometimes. He sometimes just falls asleep when you are asking something.

He is moving around his bed turning from side to side slightly. He keeps freaking out when he notices the oxygen sensor on his toe glowing red like ET’s finger. I am better to recognize his issue and once I tell him what it is, he settles. We are both learning this odd form of communication.

Today when I untied his good hand, he reached up and gently pulled my mask off. He then was touching my face.  He then fell asleep. The mask thing has got to be weird. 

The most common thing he mouths, “I want to go home.”

He keeps coughing up some yucky stuff but the general consensus is that it is old funk and he wasn’t able to get that up when he was paralyzed.

I put one of Ethan’s business cards in his nurses window so that when ever he has a new nurse, they can look at his Instagram or YouTube if they want. Last night Ethan’s nurse said he had no idea about Ethan’s YouTube and he felt like he was working on a celebrity. Ha!

Monday’s are always busy and already the line of people in this room has been impressive. We have Ethan sitting up. He is moving all arms and legs. Yeah! We still have a long road to recovery but hopefully we can avoid the potholes.