left leg clot

Ultrasound confirmed this morning that Dad has a blood clot (a DVT) in his left leg, apparently up in the thigh area. This evening the doctors inserted a filter to prevent the clot from reaching his heart or lungs, should it come loose from its current location. It was actually a pretty simple procedure to insert the filter, so they were able to do that before doing the tracheotomy, which is scheduled for 9am tomorrow morning.

Not much else new. Dad continues to be twitchy, more on the right side of his body than left, which we think is weird, since the right side of his body ought to have been paralyzed by the stroke. He is still responding to pain stimulus, less strongly than last Sunday but more strongly than Monday/Tuesday. He remains comatose despite our best efforts to convince him to come on back to us. We'll just continue the efforts. ;) Thank you all so much for your continuing prayers.