Status Update

We went to visit him last night and he had been to therapy earlier in the day, so he was exhausted from that. He was still unable to get up on his own and is not able to put any weight on his right leg. The strange thing is, is that he can feel it when you touch the right side of his body. He is not able to move his right arm at all but he can feel you touching him.
When he fell yesterday he cut his ear and his head. That really made an impression on him and I don't think he will forget that he can't stand up, at least not soon.
The therapy people have given us notice that they expect him to have to stay in rehab for 1-3 months. This is his longest stay yet. Even the first time he lost feeling in his leg he didn't stay that long.
His speech is a little slurred. It gets worse when he is tired, but after the first day in the hospital his face started to drop on the right side, and his words have been slower and more slurred.
I told him that if his ear was really mangled he could tell people he got in a bar fight and someone bit it off;)
Yesterday he was actually in better spirits than he has been since this new stroke happened. The first night in rehab, he sounded and looked really bad. Yesterday his spirits where higher, and he was happy because they replaced his old box tv with a new flat screen, so I spent a lot of the visit helping him learn how to use the new tv remote so he could watch his tv that night:)