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the second surgery went well. the debrided and clensed ralph's wounds and closed up his ankle...which of course means that they will have to open it up again when they go in to fix it...but it does decrease risk of infection. ross's grandparents came down yesterday to visit with him and so that we could go out to north dakota so ross could be in his friend ryan's wedding. the wedding was outdoors and everything was very disorderly, but the service was lovely and the wind was blowing and the music was mostly very good. it is clear that ryan and laura love each other very much and that is always so nice to see.
i think it was good for ross and i to get away from this for a few hours.
we got back to the hospital around 9 and stayed til about 10:30.
then we got a call from ralph around 6:30am. he was upset and thirsty and wanting us to come in. he doesn't have very realistic ideas about how long he is going to be in the hospital and the morphine is affecting his short term memory enough that he isn't remembering or keeping things in chronological order. it makes it very hard to talk to him about his condition sometimes. ross is doing really well.
he is going back into work tonight and i am going to stay with ralph this evening. i think that will be good for ross. we have way more to do than we have time to do it. we are still working on getting a police report and figuring out exactly what happened in the accident. it would be nice to know what is going to happen in terms of getting all this paid for. thankfully we have had some legal advice that i think will keep us from making any mistakes with the insurance.
ross's mom has gone back home and will be back down tuesday when ralph goes back into surgery.