NEW CONTACT INFORMATION and FOOOOOOD (of a sort)

Tom called me this morning at about 9 to announce with great joy that he has had his first nutritional substance in his mouth since last Sunday night. I never knew anyone could be so excited about apple juice and jello. 

Tom is moving to a new room on the third floor. The census is down at the hospital so they are closing his side of the floor and moving the few remaining patients. This is supposed to be a cost saving endeavor, but it takes so much manpower to move patients around I think it's only a paper savings. They are not spending on nursing, but they are tripling up on the nonprofessional staff. I suspect this is a union issue. I know that there is a big conspiracy in hospitals (well in this hospital anyway) because Tom's dad has been filling me in on their inner workings. Clearly when you put an engineer in an illogical situation he or she must use all of their prodigious mental skills to make sense of a nonsensical world. Dad has been having some vivid dreams and he is using analysis and logic to sort all of the data and he has developed a highly elaborate understanding of the inner workings of the medical system, including how doctors live and collude with one another, how hospitals can be forced to close down, and how this all fits together. I got to spend 5 hours with him last night and the continuing force of his determination and will and drive are amazing. He is still terribly concerned with his children and looking out for their futures.

Tom's new room number is 366 bed 2 and his new phone number is 610-284-8819. But the really BIG mystery is......IS THERE INTERNET???? Just in case anyone isn't clear, he's in Delaware County Memorial Hospital