Dad had dialysis this morning at 6:00 a.m., so by the time we got to the hospital at 1:30, he was pretty wiped out. They've been doing dialysis every day for the past several days because Dad's potassium level is too high.
The physical therapist came in while we were there and was going to sit Dad up in a chair for a while, despite all the IV's, etc., that Dad is attached to. The room Dad is in is pretty small, so we opted to go home and let Jason work with Dad. The physical therapist apparently had visited Dad this morning and did some bed exercises with him to try to keep his leg muscles from atrophying so bad.
We also spoke with the speech therapist. She can't work with Dad on the swallowing problem because she doesn't want to make him gag and run the risk of him aspirating. It sounded like they were going to try to do an endoscopic study tomorrow to try to see if there is some kind of blockage in Dad's stomach and try to figure out why his throat is still so swollen.
Obviously, not much more can be done until Dr. Cook figures out what is going on with Dad's digestive system. They were going to try to run some tests this afternoon and have a whole day of tests planned for tomorrow (if Dad doesn't have to have dialysis again tomorrow).
Hopefully, tomorrow night we will have some answers as to why his digestive system is not working properly and what can be done about it.
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