Last night was uncomfortable and couldn't breathe.  Had to breathe sitting up.  Took nebulizer for partial relief and another nebulizer - still couldn't breathe.  Ray Hohl came at 6 am - we are going to continue the current course of action knowing that there's not much else we can do and that the current course is really the only one, apart from increase in the morphine dose.  Had a small bit of ice cream.  Breathing slowly got better through the morning so I was able to sleep.  Then had a lot of spontaneous visitors - Tom G, Joseph Z, Joel K, Eric H, Carl T, Sue H, Kim B, Kim G, Kim S, Janet K, Maged A, Alyssa N, Jerry M, Pat, Mark A, Teri S, Ben McL, Rebecca S, Sandy and Mike S, Alan R, and Jeff W came as the penultimate last visitor.

Coffee was provided by Larry H - it seems that the Java House has adopted me and is making any coffee orders for me at no cost.

Rebecca, Cameron and Declan arrived from Kansas City and Cameron was thoughtful enough to look after Declan while Rebecca visited me in my hospital room.

Sam arrived from London and he was able to also visit for about 30 minutes before taking his mother for her first cooked meal in 4-5 days.

Talked to nephews David and Shane from Adelaide per phone.  Will try to skype with them tomorrow.  Talked to mum on the phone and had phone and skype messages from Rachel, and emails from Raine, Kate and Julie R.  All very meaningful and appreciated.

Special thanks too to the children and staff from The Hills Christian Community School, Verdun, South Australia to whom I gave a talk when I visited their school in March this year.  They sent me a great packet of illustrations and ideas for inventions which was the theme of my talk to them - great reading.

The respiratory therapist spent many hours counting the bubbles to make sure the airflow was correct for Epic !!

Breathing still very short but able to lay 3/4 down and should be able to sleep.  Ray Hohl just in Chicago and will be back here tomorrow and I think decisions have to be made about getting a lot better symptom control.

NOTE FROM BEC
Hey everyone, dad is handling everything in his usual amazing way, as is mum.  He really loves all the visitors, phone calls and comments, so I encourage you all to keep up the brilliant work, and I thankyou for it.