Update

Sorry for the lack of posts this week -- it was important for me to get back to work. I'm still visiting Dad twice a day at All Saints, and he's still the star there, especially with the students from the nearby vocational school. He got a kazoo band going yesterday, though he said that everyone was playing a different song.

Dad will be coming home with me next Wednesday. I'll pick him up at All Saints, then drive him to Kaiser for a follow-up appointment with the neurosurgeon. We hope the hard collar around his neck will come off at that point. Then I will drive him back to my house, and I will I hope by that time found some people to help me get him upstairs -- maybe one of the medical transport companies recommended by All Saints. Once he is upstairs, he will have a bedroom, a bathroom, a TV, a telephone, room for his computer. I've got a list of things that need to be done, and he can begin to pick up the threads of his life by contacting the insurance company, thinking about what to do with the plane, and otherwise making plans for the future. I think I will also make him blogmaster at that point, and let him keep everyone up-to-date himself.

He's doing very well, and looking forward to getting out of All Saints, though he will probably miss all of the attention.