She's still in the hospital for now...
Well, after making plans to move Evelyn to the convalescent facility today, it turns out they don't have any empty beds right now. So she'll be staying in the hospital tonight, and possibly tomorrow as well.
In the meantime, we can now report that she is completely off oxygen, and breathing good old fashioned room air... more or less. For the most part, she still has a tube attached to her tracheostomy that adds a bit of humidity to the room air. She can remove the tube and just breathe regularly from time to time, but whenever she starts to get a dry throat she needs to go back to the humidified air.
Food-wise, she is receiving approximately 80% of her nutrition through her feeding tube, and about 20% from a liquid diet. She can't yet handle solid food because her throat is still quite sore from the operation, but she's discovering what soups she likes (the hospital soups are generally too salty, but chicken broth is definitely a winner), and managing to down an occasional chocolate shake as well.
Her biggest frustrations at the moment are the continued cough (which the staff is promising will gradually subside), her perpetual sore throat, and persistent headaches. The headaches are caused by the relentless cough, so we're hopeful that the headaches will dimish as the coughing subsides.
And then of course there's the exhaustion. She never seems to be left alone long enough to get any reasonable amount of sleep, so she's pooped. It is our expectation that she'll start sleeping better as soon as she can get out of the hospital!
That's about it for now. Film at 11:00...
In the meantime, we can now report that she is completely off oxygen, and breathing good old fashioned room air... more or less. For the most part, she still has a tube attached to her tracheostomy that adds a bit of humidity to the room air. She can remove the tube and just breathe regularly from time to time, but whenever she starts to get a dry throat she needs to go back to the humidified air.
Food-wise, she is receiving approximately 80% of her nutrition through her feeding tube, and about 20% from a liquid diet. She can't yet handle solid food because her throat is still quite sore from the operation, but she's discovering what soups she likes (the hospital soups are generally too salty, but chicken broth is definitely a winner), and managing to down an occasional chocolate shake as well.
Her biggest frustrations at the moment are the continued cough (which the staff is promising will gradually subside), her perpetual sore throat, and persistent headaches. The headaches are caused by the relentless cough, so we're hopeful that the headaches will dimish as the coughing subsides.
And then of course there's the exhaustion. She never seems to be left alone long enough to get any reasonable amount of sleep, so she's pooped. It is our expectation that she'll start sleeping better as soon as she can get out of the hospital!
That's about it for now. Film at 11:00...
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