Yesterday, Dad had an evaluation with TIRR, which was 2 1/2 hours long with the doctor. Dr. Crump was great.
From the evaluation, it has been determined that dad will have to be inpatient, that they main objective will be to get him sitting, he will need injections in his leg muscles in order to loosen them. The doctor was coming to send an email to the DARS counselor informing them of his status of inpatient. Once DARS gets the formula evaluation from TIRR, it will be a matter of time for the moneys from the grant to be release and dad will be on his way TIRR for very intense rehab. Now we are on the program of having dad out of the Medicare system and today we are 36 days into a 60 day sit out. Now once he makes 60 days out of the Medicare system and Medicare hospital will start over on December 11, so if the grant has not been released he will be ready for TIRR on December 11. One way or another he will be at TIRR before the end of 2009. Our goal is to keep him health and out of the hospital.
Prayer request for dad is:

• His blood pressure has been running too low - he needs to have a normal blood pressure. To get his blood pressure up today we had to put him back on Ritalin. It worked
• The doctor yesterday has added a medication to keep him awake during the day. Today was his first day and he was wake more and trying to talk. What we don't need is for the medication to stir something else up. For the medication to work with his system.