Sitting up and lookin' out the window!

Okay, so not quite sitting up, but Howard was moved to a chair-like bed for 3 hours today that was facing toward the window.  We asked him if he could see the trees and cloudy sky, and he clearly responded, "Yes."  We were able to have several conversations with him today, although  not for very long.  He told Kelli he wants to watch M.A.S.H with Amy, and that she needed to find a really big pie for Mom...with lots of ice cream.  

Speaking of food, he continues to get nourishment from a feeding tube, but a therapist has come in the last two mornings to give him small drinks and tastes of pudding, to see if he is getting closer to being able to eat on his own.  

It really wears him out to sit up and concentrate hard enough to converse.  So when we left, he was sound asleep, back on his comfy airbed. 

With his surgery for his other foot/ankle scheduled for Monday, we are enjoying these short bursts conversation before he is once again heavily sedated.  But our hopes are high that he'll soon be out of ICU and be about the work of recovering so he can come home.  It was a good day.