Anthony, Con, Terry, Dad, Lenny, Aunt Carol, and I saw mom today. Her nurse said that she was awake this morning. BUT….while we were there, she mostly slept. She would open her eyes periodically if we opened her eyelids or asked her to open them, but then she’d go right back to sleep. Ugh. We missed her awake time! Her body clock is askew. But the good news is that she IS having very awake periods AND that even in her sleepiness, she was able to follow the commands of the doctor!! Her blood work, chest x-ray…were all good. At about 3 a.m. she came off the trach collar and went back on the vent because her breathing had begun to labor a bit. She was very sleepy even when she was awake today. Yesterday, she grabbed each of Anthony’s family by the face and held each person’s face in both her hands and kissed each one, but not today. The doctor came in to see her and said she would definitely stay in the hospital throughout Monday but couldn’t guarantee Tuesday. So she may be released Tuesday but not sure yet. The doctor asked her to raise her arms, keep them raised, stick out her tongue, show him 2 fingers and mom did it all!!!!! Even though she was sleepy!!! Then when the doctor left, she went back to sleep. The doctor told us mom would be back on the trach collar later. The doctor said she is off all her blood pressure medication and is only on heprin now (maybe lasix too?).!!! Her blood pressure was a little too low---it is the opinion of the doctor that her top number should be above 100 and it was only at 97, so the nurse was told to hydrate her intravenously. The doctor said this would perk her up more and help her to be more awake as well. Later, around 9:00 p.m., I called the hospital and mom's nurse said that mom was AWAKE.... This is a good thing, even though we missed it. Before the shunt, mom had days of sleeping with no awake time. We had a family meeting tonight...all of us...young and old, even and most especially, the grandkids. We all discussed mom and our options for placement and decided that the original facility is best for mom and us at this point in her recovery. If the original facility is not available, we hope to have mom in the facility "grammy" was in which is the one dad, Claudia and I looked at yesterday. No place is perfect.
"A friend loves at all times." Proverbs 17:17
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