Yesterday, July 14, was my mom’s birthday. I’m sure it is not the way she wanted to spend her day. Sorry it has been so long since we updated. I am worse at updating this than the original blog.. lol.
On Friday, my mom had about a liter of fluid drained from around the lung. It looked like old blood. On Saturday afternoon, they removed the breathing tube because it was there but she had been breathing on her own for a few hours. At night they have been putting her on the cpap machine to keep her lungs open and during the day she is just on a nasal cannula.
She has been on a feeding tube for nutrition, but hopefully she can eat some real food soon.
Yesterday when my sister and dad got there, she was working with physical therapy. She is very weak and my dad and Janet stepped out so the physical therapy people could do their thing. They said she did well. They are going to remove a drain and put it in lower to drain the lower cavity blood.
She is being put back on 24 hour dialysis. Her blood pressure dropped too low on the other dialysis. We obviously want to move her out of the icu but right now she is still in critical condition. The social worker came to give a list of care facilities for after the hospital. She wants us to pick at least 3 that we are interested in. On a good note, there are multiple locations that are close to us and it will be much better than driving to UH everyday. She would only be there temporary until she gets her strength back.
I am going to the hospital and working from there shortly. I was supposed to go yesterday but there was an issue at work and I couldn’t leave. Hoping for good news.
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