Dorothea was still very tired today. Early this morning she had a dialysis treatment and they gave her another unit of blood. The medicine Harold mentioned in yesterday's blog (Paragoric) seemed to be wearing off, so she had 7 bloody stools throughout the night. However,the sedative part of the medicine seemed to be hanging on.
Physical therapy and occupational therapy came later in the day and Dorothea dangled her feet over the edge of the bed for 5-6 minutes. She sat by herself for about 1 minute.
She only opened her eyes two times today, so the entire time she was sitting on the edge of the bed,her eyes were closed.
She would sometimes respond to questions when people would be persistent about getting her to answer them.
The doctors have altered her feeding to something more basic, which they say will be more easily absorbed in the small intestine, which will give the large intestine a break - so perhaps that ulcer can heal better. Hopefully I got that right and didn't misrepresent any of that! So much of this is over my head! :)
We are hopeful that the sedative effects of the paragoric will be gone by morning so that she can sit in a chair again and have the trach capped again and start anew.
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