It has been a busy day today. Julia spent the night in ICU, which is an environment designed to insure that you will not get any sleep. With the machines buzzing, beeping, gonging, etc., it was not very restful. But through all of that, Julia is steadily feeling better. She is drinking well, and starting to eat again. She even laughs now and then at my attempts at humor. The doctors and nurses have all come by to check on her and make sure she is doing well. I particularly enjoyed the bedside manner of the neurologist, not just with Julia, but especially with Libby. Libby was worried about an increasing number of things, and fretting, and concerned . . . The doctor just walked over to Libby and smiled and hugged her - she understood that Libby was worried, and simply assured her it would be okay. We went on an exploratory mission to find food in the hospital complex. We hit the mother-load over in UAB! What a nice array of choices of food and drinks. I think this will be Libby's main target for food. The cafateria/food court is really 2 or 3 buildings away, but everything is connected on the second floor with bridges that span the roads below, so you can get there without having to go outside and fighting traffic.
Julia might punch me for including this picture, but it is too good to resist. This is shortly after getting to ICU, and she did not feel real good at the time. She has a bunch of wires coming out of her head, which are wrapped up in a white "sock". It looks like an elephant's trunk coming out of the top of her head.
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