Today we exercised our annual Christmas Eve tradition of opening presents and watching the movie Christmas Vacation. I brought my laptop into mom's room and we watched the movie in her hospital room. The nurses were very polite, and even said "call us when the movie is over". It has been a fun day, and mom's spirits have been high. We all had many good laughs as usual over "Cousin Eddie" in Christmas Vacation.
Mom will be here for the next few days in a "holding pattern". She does not have any major medical procedures lined up, and the focus will be to keep her on anti-biotics and monitor the clot in her right arm. Her white count is still high, but the wounds are no longer bleeding.
To reduce her swelling (edema), they have put her back on Lasix. This has been an adventure, because it makes her pee like crazy, and the urge comes on pretty suddenly. Trisha, Heather, John, and I have been here all day, so we have established a very efficient protocol for getting her out of bed and into the bathroom quickly, managing her i.v. and wound-vac tubes during the process. We have dubbed ourselves her "Pit Crew", and our time has gotten progressively better throughout the day.
We'll keep the stopwatch going and hope to keep improving. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.
2 comments:
Merry Christmas, Beth and Family.
Sara and Jeff
I'd just bet Libba is furious with the lazy guardian angels who aren't watching our Beth as closely as they should.
This morning our granddaughter Julia opened her Christmas presents in a Beth Brown original (white with green smocking). It made me think of all the darling pictures I'd seen of Heather in her lovingly made dresses.
Love to all,
Tandy Shields
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