A good day for a fart joke

Wiley is about to move out of the ICU! This is a great sign. They are going to move him to another wing of the hospital that is termed “observational.”

And the word today is that, contrary to what was said previously, Wiley will NOT be going to a rehab center until after he has the surgery to replace the bone flap in his skull. So that means another 1 – 2 weeks (that part remains unclear!) at Memorial Hospital before he has that surgery. One additional hurdle remains before he can be transferred to a rehab center: he needs to be able to persist through 3 hours of physical therapy each day. Meanwhile, though, he will get rehab while he remains at Memorial Hospital.

Wiley is now eating on his own. And eating is something that he proclaimed today, much to Nancy’s amusement, he’d rather do than see any of the numerous girls who have been by the hospital to see him.

A few other heartening interactions have happened in the last day and a half, too. First and foremost, he and his dad shared a laugh over a joke, the first laugh witnessed by his parents. Of course it was a fart joke. He also told his Grandma Linda this morning, “I love you.”

Check out the couple of links on the left that were recently added, if you haven't already: they are recent videos on YouTube of Wiley playing music (one, in his dining room; the other, at rock and roll camp at UC Santa Cruz).