More visitors while on the 2nd Floor

 Dad is such a loved man that we had some wonderful family stop in on their way home from the Hannemann Family Reunion.

He saw Howard Hannemann and his beautiful family.

Jasen & Joann & their kids, Irena & Alvin with their kids.

 Tia frequented the hospital with her little clan of boys.

 Hannemann loves his grandpa so much!

Dad really enjoyed his speech therapist, Jo. 

She was so caring to dad and really wanted his left side to work again.

She came in quite often to check on him and do her little treatment - secretly - for him.

Dad is moved to the 2nd Floor out of ICU

Dad's left side of his face and body has no feeling.

My mom made a funny comment,

"how are we suppose to hold hands with both of our left hands numb?"

She always has such a great attitude and so happy.

 

My poor dad, I don't know how much more he can take.

He has been through so much in the last couple years.

It's so hard for me to see this incredibly active man stuck in this body that won't do anything!!

Irene moistening dad's mouth with the pink swab.

Dad and Bryan always have jokes going on between the two of them.

Bryan asked dad how he was doing and dad said,

"I am sooo hungry and this sponge is delicious!!"

These boys love their grandpa!!

Trevor is swabbing grandpa's mouth and keeping it moist.

Dad is sooo hungry, the last great meal he had was the Pizza Factory pizza and steak & shrimp

on the first floor. He hasn't had anything to eat even in the ICU. 

Hannemann holding and massaging grandpa's hands.

Trevor vists grandpa in the ICU

Trevor came into the room and my dad looked up and recognized him immediately.  He said, "TREVOR" then he said to his nurse, "This is my grandson Trevor, he plays football and is really good!" The nurse then asked Trevor where do you play? He said Snow Canyon and the nurse said, "Wow, we have 2 things in common, my name is Trevor also and I played there. 

This picture just gets me, because it looks like Trevor is just heart broken about Grandpa. I would love to know what he was thinking at this moment in time.  His friend, Navy wanted to come see Grandpa with Trevor because he has come a few times to visit him at the Rehab and other places.

More Precious moments from the I C U

 Aunty Almira got there from Hawaii.  My dad was sooo excited to see her, he loves his sister so much and always shows so much emotion when ever they are reunited.  He just stared into her face and looked like a little boy. She talked with him Hawaii and how Uncle Jr. will make him whatever food he wants when he gets there to Hawaii.  My dad kept saying, "I want to eat that"

(Remember, my dad was throwing up for 7 days and hasn't had anything to eat for 7 days and now with him having a stroke, they don't want to let him eat anything because they don't know if he could swallow, and they are keeping a close eye on him. Therefore, he is starving! So any talk about food he wants to eat!)

 She sang a Hawaiian Song "I'll Remember You" and my dad sang along with her.

They were so precious to watch and see the look between the two of them.

There was so much love witnessed between a brother and a sister.

 Irene is simply AMAZING!!! She could NOT do enough for mom and dad.

She is so full of service and LOVE that I love to watch her in action.

Her heart is so full of compassion.

I want to be like her when I grow up.

 Clay is dad's personal assistant, and right hand man!!!

Dad turns to Clay for most everything. They are the best of friends.

Dad depends on him and knows that it will get done when he asks him.

Clay is another wonderful example to me.

 Trevor brought Sydnee back to the hospital to come and see Grandpa.

Sydnee just loves him so much, but Trevor is still shocked and is so sad.

Our Amazing Aunty Joyce and Uncle Sale came when we called. She is always so quick to come and be with us. She is telling my dad right here, "Clay, your partner in crime is here! C'mon Clay we need you to fight and stay with us! We love you so much!" She and my mom have been through so much together and continue to support each other in everything.

 The ICU room was only so big, so my dad was only allowed to have 2 visitors at a time.

Can you tell that our family knows that we are exempt from that rule, or so we think we are.

We were always breaking the rule, but I think they were afraid to say anything to our family because they allowed it, even at 3:00am when all 7 of us arrived. We had a maximum of 15 people in there at one time. Our dad was always surrounded by lots of love!!

Dad has a Stroke

Mom called me on Friday, June 28th and said, Tonya I think dad had a stroke during the night. She said that when she woke up and went into the bathroom when she came out she glanced over at my dad and his head was tilted differently, so she went over and said, "Clay, good morning are you ok?" He didn't respond and he looked different. She would know because she is with him 24/7. So she went to the nurses station and told them that she thought that he might have had a stroke. They told her, "Irene, he is really exhausted from vomitting and not getting much sleep" then she demanded that they come and see. That happened at 5:30am and she was calling me at 7:15am and she was waiting for them to come get him and have some tests run to see if he did have a stroke. Well I left my house immediately, I live about 20 minutes from the hospital, so when I arrived I came into my dad's room and came to my dad and said, "Good morning dad, what's going on?" He said, "I'm fine but very tired." I asked my mom what the tests results were and she said that they haven't come to get him yet. My eyes bugged out of my head and I walked out of the room and had a fit with the nurses. I said, "There are commercials teaching people how to recognize the first signs of stroke and to immediately get them to a hospital, but because my dad is already in a hospital, we are ok to just let him sit and wait? It's been since 5:30am when my mom came to the nurses station first and now its 8:00am and who knows when he had it, but the time that we know its been 2:30 hours and my dad still hasn't been tested!!" Right then the nurse said, "We just called RAPID RESPONSE so they should be there. I asked, "What's Rapid Response?" They said it was just above code blue. Before I could do anymore yelling they were going into dad's room and I rushed in there. They took him to radiology to see if there was any clots or bleeding on the brain. As soon as they wheeled him into the room we waited outside the door and dropped to our knees right there in the hallway of the hospital and prayed to Our Heavenly Father to please help our father. He has been through so much and finally when we thought he was getting a little better something else happens to him. 

Mom kissing him "See You Later, I'll be right here waiting"

This was dad before they took him into the xray room. Bryan and Joe gave dad a blessing while the nurse was waiting for the OK to do the TPA and x-ray. I am so grateful for the opportunities to watch the priesthood in action and know that these men are men of God who are worthy.

They moved dad into the ICU and he was on so many different things and tubes and monitors.

 

Dad and his brother and sister and mom and Aunty Joyce and Uncle Sale and Max.

Us kids slept in the waiting room and took shifts every hour to watch over our dad while mom slept.  Dad had an oxygen mask on over his nose and mouth, but there was a time that Dad was telling me to take it off. I got his nurse and he removed it and my dad showed him that the water was condescending and dripping in his mouth and making him gag. So the nurse dried it out and cleaned it really well.

The Dr.'s said that dad doesn't have any feeling on the left side of his body, face, organs, etc. So his eyes would tend to fall to the right side, so they put this hat on him to give him a blinder and make him use his eyes on the left side.

 

 

 

Just the 7 of us and mom, Sunday Morning having a morning prayer and family meeting about dad.

Dad was sooo happy to see his sister and brother.  He gave them some older brotherly advice.

It's been a LONG weekend!! We are all FINALLY together. The Original 7 and Mom & Dad @ 3am

Fought with Evil Spirits

This morning I came into my dad's hospital room and I asked him how he slept last night. He told me, "Tonya I went somewhere last night, that NOBODY would want to go, I fought with Evil Spirits to stay here." I asked him to tell me more and he said, "That that's all he can say, but he wants to get his pants on and go to work." I told him that he couldn't and he said, "I want to walk and get up out of this bed." But meanwhile, they had brought in this Cardiac Chair for therapy and were going to put him in it and he could go outside. The other thing going on at that time is he was soooo uncomfortable with gas. His stomach was so bloated and he honestly felt like he was going to die, he was in so much pain. So I rubbed his stomach with some oils to help relieve some of the gas. He started to burp and feel a little better, but still uncomfortable. Then the physical therapist came in and dad's left leg was hanging off the bed, from him moving around trying to get comfortable. The therapist said, "Clay, are you getting a headstart without me?" He then said, "I want to get up." So she and the other 2 therapist helped him sit up on the side of the bed. As soon as they sat him up, he let out the BIGGEST burp I had ever heard. Then they continued back to back that I thought he was going to choke on all of the burps. You could see his stomach start getting smaller and smaller.

After sitting up for a while, he wanted to stand up so they helped him stand up.

He had a look on his face as he was looking out his window, almost like he was so determined to prove something to someone that was out there watching him. The look on his face said it all.
DETERMINATION!!!

His mind is so strong and he believes that he can do anything on his own.

But these ladies continued to help him so that he didn't fall. He walked to the wheelchair that was waiting for him, he ended up not needing the Cardiac Chair.

Clay arrived from being up north and he and I, Julee and Mom took dad for a walk to the front of the hospital in the memorial garden. He loves being outside in the sunshine. We sat outside with dad for about 20 minutes, then he was getting anxious because he wasn't very comfortable in the small

wheelchair. After being outside, we asked him "Dad, what do you want to do now?" and he said,

"Take a shower!!!"

He continued to burp and burp and burp on his walk.

After we got him back into the room I got the nurse and told her that he wanted to take a shower.

She said, "I'm sure he does, it's been a few days since his last shower."

She sent in the CNA and she and my mom gave him a good and LONG shower.

He stood on his own in the shower with the walker and the handle.

He showered for a good 30 minutes, finally the nurse came in and said "Clay, we've got to get you back in bed, your blood pressure is going to start dropping"

He kept asking her if she got him REALLY CLEAN down there!

He was exhausted after that last 2 hours and not getting any sleep during the night.

Vomiting

 Mom called me Saturday morning, Bryan and I were on our way to the temple for our anniversary and she said that Dad started throwing up from a mixture of medications that are being given to him.

His potassium was so low that they brought in this little cup of stuff to bring up his potassium, my dad told them that he usually takes molasses to bring up his potassium and they said, "NO" so he took this stuff and some orange juice and not even 2 minutes later he started vomiting.
He was vomitting sooo much and there was hardly anything in his body anymore.
We tried to give him BOOST, crackers, water and it all came up!!!
My cute dad started crying and I said, "Dad, why are you crying"
He said, "Nana I don't want you here spending your Anniversary cleaning up my vomit! You need to be celebrating with Bryan!" I told him that there is NO OTHER place I would rather be. He ended up giving us one of his gift cards to Red Lobster and told us to go to lunch on him.

He continued vomiting for 6 days. We are trying to figure out with the medications what is making him have this side effect. The Dr.'s don't seem too worried about him not eating, but nothing sounds good to him. There's nothing in his stomach anymore so he just dry heaves.