Easter Sunday

Mom had lots of visitors today! The day started out early with visits from John, Bob, and Donna (and of course Dad was there! :) The staff had turned off all feeding this morning, and her blood sugar had come down to 97 (which is good). I think the blood sugar may have come down because they turned the feeding off. The feeding is now turned back on and her blood sugar is under control.

Her white blood cell count is very high, so they were going to hang a couple different types of antibiotic for her. The nurses hear something strange in her lungs, so they requested a chest x-ray early this morning.

She was very tired this morning, only opening her eyes a couple of times while us kids were there this morning. Her "roommate" moved out this morning so she has a private room again - yeah!

Later this afternoon she was complaining about a lot of pain, so dad requested a Darvocet for her. She was able to get some much needed rest then.

This evening we went back up to visit mom and had quite a crew with us. Don and I, and Brenda and Brooklyn - John and Cyndi, Paige, Brandon, Jessica - and my brother Bob. We were happily surprised that we were able to wake mom up pretty easily and she stayed awake and alert for probably close to 1 1/2 hours. The kids had some great conversations with her, and received lots of "hand hugs" - she was really squeezing everyone's hands a lot tonight, it was very sweet. The kids also wrote notes and pictures on her wipe-off board and made up a rap song for her - I believe she even laughed! I think that Darvocet gave her such a nice restful sleep, that it allowed her to be so wide awake and in good spirits with the kids.

As we were leaving tonight we got to hear a little voice - we don't hear that very often - so it is pretty exciting when she talks with enough force to be able to hear her voice.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!