Dave Shohl Watch

I found Dave much improved mentally and physically.  He's getting strong enough to push the nurse's call button, although he's having trouble picking it up to do so.  He talked with me (on his initiative) at length about plans for transcribing a couple of Sam's compositions for violin and piano, and also about making a transcription or arrangement of something by Bach for Nick, Doris and Mark.  He also talked about a couple of books he was really interested in, one about Asberger's syndrome and the other about castor beans in Egypt (you'll have to get the details from Dave), and invited Stella to France. 

He's been having persistent fevers, though, and today one of the cultures came back positive for the one of the very recalcitrant bugs that originally caused the pneumonia, now in his blood.  They've called in the special permission antibiotics to combat it and started him on those this morning.  During the day today he's had no temperature, which I hope is a sign that the antibiotics are already doing the trick.