Today's visit

Aunt rose, Aunt Iris, and Uncle George visited Mom yesterday and today. Aunt Rose is staying for one more day. 

Mom is on a very low level of sedation but still has the ventilator. She is responsive, when ask if she knows she's in St. Paul's she nods her head. She wiggles her toes, tries to shift herself around in bed. You can asker simple yes and know questions and she'll answer. So things are moving forward.

She's slowly working through her infection. It's going to be a long while before she gets over this.

Moved to Intensive Care

Mom was in cardiac care when she first arrived in St. Paul’s, they've now moved here to intensive care as she isn't a heart patient.

She is still on ventilator but dialling back on sedation more. The Hospital is being careful about removing the ventilator. Removing the sedation without removing the ventilator would be very uncomfortable. The ventilator is there to assist in her breathing, not breath for her.

She’s opening her eyes more now, which is expected as they are reducing the sedation. She moves her hands and feet when asked to do so.

Dad and i are going to visit her tommorow

Dialing back sedation

Still on ventilator, they are dialing back her sedation levels so they can get her to a level where should could breath on her own.

They won't be moving her in the to kamloops quite yet.

Remeber that she is diabedic, it takes longer for her to rebound from health problems. She's on her own schedule of recovery, not ours.

Weds update

Dad talk to he nurse again today. Nothing new to report, still on ventilator. Still not decided on if they will send her to kamloops or not.

Update for Tues

Still on ventilator. Dad talked with doctors today. We may find out on Wednesday or Thursday if she'll be sent back to Kamloops or Kelowna

No Change

Dad called the hospital today, no change yet. Still on ventilator. Waiting to hear if they are going to move her closer to home.

Doc update

Just talked with doc, they are talking about sending her back to kamloops or kelowna as they are equiped to look after her now. Could be sent back as early as Wednesday.

Still on ventilator but expect to remove it in the next day or 2. Still critical but everything is slowly moving forward.

Dad and I are driving home now.

Dad and I going back

Dad and I are going back to Merritt today. We'll be visiting Mom one more time before we go. Dad plans on coming back on Tuesday or wednesday.  I'll still be updating the blog as we get information