Tuesday, June 9th, 2026: Trauma team took tube out, Stacy here, Breathing treatment, Lamb Ranch in Tennessee, Lunch @ Cafe Rio w/ Sheri, Sariah, & Nancy, Walmart, James has salmon for lunch, Kacey texts me, James asking for pain meds, Costco, "North by Northwest"

Recife, Brazil

101st Temple

7:30 - Both of us are grumpy. I can't seem to get James's bed adjusted to his liking. They brought him eggs for breakfast. He doesn't like them very well. We call for Danny, the nurse, but he doesn't come.

8:10 - Stacy from the trauma team came and took the tube out of James's side. Afterwards I did some breathing exercises with him. 

8:20 - We had prayer and started to read from Alma 18 but didn't get started because Carol, a respiratory therapist, came in for more breathing treatments. 

I finished "Follow Him" and listened to "I Will Give Away All My Sins to Know Thee" Elder Wu's conference talk. I also listened to "Jesus Christ Is Not Our Burden; He is Our Relief" by Brother Wunderli.

9:15 - Danny gave James his antibiotic for the pneumonia, Oxycodone, a blood thinner, and a patch to help with pain on his ribs. He isn't going to sit in the chair right now because of just taking the tube out of his side. Danny doesn't want it to bleed. 

I'm on YouTube looking at Mark Lamb's ranch in Tennessee. 

9:45 - James and I read Alma 18 the story of Ammon teaching King Lamoni. I also texted with Janna and Rita. We also did "Come Follow Me" 1 Samuel "Jesus Christ is My King" and read 1 Samuel 9. James listening to President Eyring's conference talk, "Prayers for Peace." 

I listened to Unshaken where Brother Halverson talks about the Samuel Principle found in 1 Samuel 8. Confidence before the Lord to bless our children and to honor their agency.

Collin DeWitt called and I spoke with him.

10:40 - I texted with Kim, read from one of the Emma M. Lion's journals and finished the Hallmark movie, "The Greek Aisle."

James is asleep. 

11- A nurse named Millie took James's blood sugar before lunch. It was 136, a little high. I left to have lunch with Sheri, Nancy and Sariah at Care Rio. It is Taco Tuesday, although I had a salad instead of a taco. I also did some shopping at Walmart. While I am gone James enjoyed baked salmon for lunch. They also just took him off the oxygen tube. The Horak's, Brian's parents, sent James a beautiful plant. I texted Karen, Brian's mom, a thank you.

Dennis checks on James every single day.

James has what they call a Numo, a 10% air pocket in his left lung. They put another oxygen mask on him. This one is called a non-re-breather which will push out the air pocket. They put another antibiotic in his I.V. 

Kacey texted me to see how James is doing. 

3:50 - James is listening to "A Proper Facade" and so am I. 

4:45 - James is asking for more pain meds. Danny comes in as I leave to go to Costco. Sheri and I get our wires crossed and we never meet up. I am sad I didn't get to see Evan. When I returned to the hospital James was eating dinner: beans, carrots, pulled pork, peaches, and some other kind of desert. James ate the beans and peaches and some of the desert. I brought him some nuts and he ate them. We are now watching "North by Northwest" starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. 

8 pm - Another chest x-ray.

Dylan is his night nurse.