Another long/short night. Got called at 11:30 to come back. Bill was very agitated and every time they left his room he tried to get out of bed. I finally got him calmed down and asleep about 1 and got to bed at 1:30, back up at 6:30. When I got back this morning, he was awake and in a great mood and remembered nothing from the night before.

I talked to the PA and we've decided to try some Xanax or Ativan to see if that will relieve some of his anxiety. Since he had been on Xanax until September and did very well with it we're hoping it will relax him enough to sleep.

He worked very hard in all of his therapies today, doing all of the tongue and swallow exercises he refused to do this week-end! They also worked on some memory recall to see what was a memory problem and what was just word recall problems.

This afternoon he ate an entire bowl of tomato bisque and a little jello and had no trouble with any of it. It seemed, even to JoEllen the therapist, that the natural act of eating was coming back. She was very pleased. She's going to bring oatmeal and scrambled egg tomorrow to see how he does with something of more substance.

John and Heather came this afternoon and are bringing the kids back tonight to see him. I came home to get some much needed rest. I think Amber is going to stay with me a couple of nights. She's the only girl in the group so she's gonna hang with grandma.

The dressing on his wound was changed today with no pain medication and he did well with it. We could not believe how great the wound looked. It's considerably smaller than it was Friday. She will measure it again Wednesday and we're both anxious to see what the measurements are.

Hoping that it's a quiet and restful night...only time will tell!