Doing fine

There is talk about moving her back to kamloops as soon as monday. It will all depend is she can breath on her own without the ventilator for 24 hours. If she can breath then they'll move her back to kamloops, closer to her family.

Sitting up, a little physiotherapy

We may have over stated that my mom was walking around, she can't really walk around quite yet. she's sitting up in bed on her own. They are doing some physiotherapy with her. She's not walking around her bed. Recovery from this is still a long while away.

Aunt Iris, Uncle George, and Aunt Rose are going to see Mom on the weekend

Walking around slowly

Dad just phone me to tell me that mom is walking around a little bit and they are working on getting her moving. Every 4 hours or so they shut off the ventilator to see how she'll do. Tracheotomy is still in place. everythings sounds like the positive direction we were hoping for. She's still not over yet, still in intensive care

Dad went down to visit Mom

Dad left to visit mom today

Testing with no vent

Dad call the hospital this morning, they are testing how mom does with no ventilator. They'll shut it off for a few hours and watch how she does. Still has the fever.

Doing fine with the Tracheotomy

Mom is doing fine with the Tracheotomy. It's scary to see the tube in her throat but once you get past that you realize that it's a lot better then the tube going down her throat. There's no sedation so you can communicate with her now.

She can't talk due to the Tracheotomy but she can shrug her shoulders, and nod or shake her head. She's alert and aware of her situation, she just doesn't have a lot of energy.

She's on the lowest setting on the ventilator, still waiting on the infection to leave. The advantage of the Tracheotomy is they can manage her breathing a little better then with just a tube, a little less chance for infection and if an air tube is in for too long it can hurt the vocal cords.

Dad is back in Merritt, I'm back in Kamloops