Dorothea has many people in and out of her room... all of the time it seems like. It is great to know that there are so many people working to help her gain her strength. She was on dialysis this morning - Justin - our favorite - was the dialysis tech today. Her roomate is also on dialysis so he was there most of the day. They decided to only take about 1 liter off today, and they have been giving her an extra 200 ml of water (in her peg tube) every 4 hours. They need to make sure that she does not get too dryed out. They think that may have been the problem the other day when her oxygen saturation was too low. Kind of a long explanation...so I won't go into all that.
Harold is having to really watch the staff to make sure they do not put any cream on her by-pass incision. The heart surgeon does not want any cream on it at all. However, they are supposed to put this cream on her other wounds... so it makes it confusing for the nursing staff. Harold is adamant about following the heart surgeon's recommendations so every day he refuses the doctors order to put the cream on.
She was still on the vent today... perhaps they took her off of it after I left though. We were expecting her to be off of it yesterday, so I am not sure why she was still on it.
She was in very good spirits today, alert, smiling, interactive. Physical therapy was scheduled to come in sometime this afternoon after I left.
Bob called while I was there and mom "talked" to him. Harold held the phone up to her ear so that she could hear Bob, and then when she mouthed her responses, Harold spoke for her so that Bob would know what she said. She really enjoyed that! I asked if she wanted to call someone else, but she wanted to wait for another day.We will definitely do that again - I imagine that was great for her to sort of do something "normal"! Thanks again for your continued prayers!
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