Progress is slow but steady. dp is "off-monitor," so now she only has to work around the one IV in her left hand. The infusion pump came back almost immediately after I'd noted its absence. She's getting saline that way, but all of her other meds are taken orally.
She walked (with a walker) to the bathroom today. She still lists pretty heavily to the left, still has some dizziness and double-vision, but she's eating (and holding down) solid food. They're talking about sending her home "in a couple days," but nothing definitive yet.
Trooley and I did our usual thing yesterday -- here in the morning, home for the early afternoon, and then here again until 8 or so. The ice storm made life a little more interesting, but nothing a well-driven Subaru couldn't handle.
She's still not sleeping real well at night, but she's dozing now, so I'm going to go try my hand at bookkeeping, and I'll come back tonight to watch Tin Man.
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The infusion pump is pretty much standard any more. It offers more control of the IV fluids that the old drip method. We've always used them for babies, but most of the adult patients I see wandering the halls also have them. They may have taken dp's off when she went down for the MRI 'cause you can't have them in the MRI room. (Metal parts)
Walking is good...
"A couple days" sounds like mid-week. She'll gain strength faster now that she's eating and walking a little. She'll gain more when she can go home and get a good night's sleep.
Walker and I went shopping for drums yesterday and I put 40% down on a green thinline hollow-body Ibanez ArtCore electric guitar. It is pale green. I guess it used to be aqua, but it faded. I took one look, and I tried to walk away, really I did . . . but it's a perfect color. A green guitar!
Okay, I'll settle down.
Hey Kev...I wanted to be one of the first to wish you a happy birthday!! Know that I am thinking of you and loving you too! Happy birthday. Much love to DG.
Sara
Kevin:
Happy Birthday, hope it is peaceful and uneventful.
Love you,
Else and family
Whoa- those Crawley girls are up and at the computor early! Happy Birthday from us too Kevin....hopefully it'll be a good day and we should all keep that in perspective! We actually sent the card to the street address so you didn't have to go to the post office. We love you guys! Katie
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