What a roller-coaster day! But it had a couple of high spots. A visit from grand-daughter Kay Jensen from San Jose and a very chipper Marion at 9pm tonight! In between were some of the lower spots, including temperatures, echocardiograms leading to stat CT's looking for possible pulmonary emboli, and having to be poked 3 times to start the iv for the contrast in x-ray due to the swelling he still has in his arms. But tonight I had a meeting at the hospital from 6:30-8pm, so I went back to visit and he was so wide awake, and wanted to talk so badly that we used the letter board, and he was able to point out w,a, t and from there I figured it was water that he wanted. Ken, his nurse, brushed his teeth, and did mouth care, thereby giving him moisture in his mouth, since water was not allowed with the ventilator.
Still no date set for the surgery to do the trach and feeding tube, but after tonight's "spryness", I am hopeful that he will be more comfortable from what I have heard. And more opportunity to gain strength to be weaned from the ventilator.
Thank you for the prayers, Sue
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