A close family friend suffered a stroke.

[ScottCool]

Hope for the best. My dad has suffered from a few strokes and the last one left the left side of his body partially paralyzed. It gets better over time and as long as he stays in therapy as needed and puts in some work we may be able to regain some if not most or all of his function. It can be rough, but I pray it all works out.

[Retread]

Update-4:

During the past four weeks we made a few changes to Russ's house. I made some modifications to the plumbing in his bathtub/shower and installed a handshower with a sliding mount and a handrail near the shower. His son acquired several aids like a seat on rails that allow him to sit down outside the tub then pivot the seat and glide across into the tub in front of the shower. Also a raised seat that sit above the commode with handrails and a grab bar that attaches to his bed, a four-point cane, etc.

Shuttling clean clothes to the hospital and retrieving the laundry each week was a p.i.t.a. Doing the wash was no problem. Coordinating with the nurse's station to have the laundry sent to the front lobby for me to pick up and packaging the fresh clothes for exchange was annoying. Before Covid-19 protocols, it would have been easy-peasy to just bring the clean clothes right to the patient's room and collect the laundry while visiting. Nothing is simple, these days.

Russ regained some of the use of his left leg with the physical therapy during rehab. His left hand is lagging far behind. He's also lost a LOT of weight.

He was released from the hospital yesterday. We've had a very mild and dry winter but of course it just had to snow yesterday. Had the weather been more favorable, we might have tried having him walk the two steps up to his front porch and the one step into the house with assistance. But to be on the safe side we used a wheelchair and portable ramps.

Russ's son will be living with him until he is more ambulatory, however long that takes.