Saturday, July 5, 2008

Do not resuscitate/Do not ventilate

My mom gave out an Do not resuscitate order today.

She's having problems with her kidneys. retaining a lot of water.


Friday, July 4, 2008

Back in ICU

Mom's is back in ICU. Heart trouble again and again maybe related to what got her in there in the first place.

Until she's out of the hospital it's going to be a lot of "2 steps forward, 1 step back". It's going to be a slow process of getting her out. Like i said before she's going to be in there at least all summer.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Back in stepdown unit

Mom's back in the step down unit. If all goes well she'll be put back into a regular ward.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Ben & Abby came to visit

Ben and Abby, mom's grand kids, came to visit on sunday. Jody and Paul drove in and visited with mom for a while. Mom hadn't see the kids in a while. It was a little tough on the kids seeing Grandma hooked up to the wires and tubes but after a little while it wasn't so bad.