It's Moving Day!

Dorothea is moving today to the Long Term Acute Care center - called Select. Wow what a big day this has been!

This morning she was barely responsive and would not open her eyes... later on we learned that she had been given morphine last night. That explains it. Her hemoglobin was up to 12.3 - which is great. They now believe that the 6 she had yesterday was an inaccurate reading.

They removed her chest drainage tube today.

They put the speaking valve on her trach tube, and she is receiving her oxygen through her nose now. She is TALKING! Harold says that if she mouths something that he does not understand, then he tells her to use her voice, and she does! Wow - how wonderful it will be to be able to communicate with her.

This has all happened after I left the hospital - so I am hoping that I remembered to tell you everything I have been told.

She will be transported at 4:00 today, via ambulance I presume. Harold will follow along and make sure she gets settled into her new room and make sure that the staff knows all of the particulars about Dorothea. I will post again after she is transported and settled in.

Thank you, as always, for all of your prayers! Please keep them coming! She has a long road ahead of her.