Lunch date!

This afternoon, John had a second swallow test and he PASSED so he's been cleared to start eating real food! His appetite had already started to return, so this is wonderful news for him (plus, the rehab hospital wouldn't accept him with a nasal feeding tube, so this is another hurdle cleared on the path to rehab).

And just in time, because look who came to have lunch with her Daddy:

We had a picnic lunch in John's room -- some family time for just the three of us before John flies out to Chicago early Friday morning. When it was time for him to rest, Nora and I headed out to the outlet shops to buy him clothes for rehab (if we had to be stuck in a hospital far from home for two weeks, at least we were somewhere I could buy everything we needed!) and then up to the Boardwalk for some ice cream:

Across the Boardwalk from Rita's -- sadly, by the time I'm actually posting this picture, huge portions of the Boardwalk (and maybe even this section) have been washed away by Hurricane Sandy

 

 

[Now that we are firmly past the crisis stage and safely into recovery, I'm adding some posts to fill in details from John's time in AtlantiCare to keep a record for later on for Nora.]