5 Signs That My Dad is Feeling Better

1. Before we arrived for visiting hours, he'd already made the trip (with lots of help) from bed to chair and had eaten both applesauce and Jell-o.


2. Despite being in ICU, he told us more than once that he's ready to go home.


3. He asked for 28 Diet Cokes. Not 27. Not 29. Twenty-eight.


4. He turned his nose up at the various purées he was served at lunch and dinner—chicken, beef, carrots, peas, and potatoes—but he ate three dishes of pudding with no trouble at all.


5. When we left, he was tuning into the Yankees game.