Monthly Archives: January 2018
Night and Day . . .
Better and Better!
Jan was sitting up and talking when I got to her room a little after 9 this morning. Very happy to see that.
Her breakfast came about 30 minutes later, scrambled eggs, bacon, and an English Muffin. And coffee.
Tasted like the coffee was from the same place as my cup yesterday, so she passed and just drank ice water,.
She ate some of the eggs, tried a bite of bacon that was too tough to chew, and a few bites of her muffin. Not a lot, but better than last night.
Finishing up, she had a few spoonful’s of the diced pears fruit cup that came for dessert.
Later in the afternoon her attending physician came by to check on her. He did mention that when they do take care of her kidney stone in 10 days or so, they plan to use lithotripsy, a way of using sound waves to pulverize the stone inside the kidney.
When lunch came, Crusted Tilapia, Diced Carrots, White Rice, a Dinner Roll, and a Flour Tortilla for some reason. Plus Vanilla Pudding for dessert.
She ate even better this time, but I still had to help her because her hands were so shaky. But she said it was all good.
Then when dinner came about 5:30, Cilantro Chicken Breast, Green Beans, and White Rice, as well as a Dinner Roll and Chocolate Pudding for dessert, she was now able to feed herself with no problems. She said it was really good this time too.
Doing Great!
Still don’t know if she will be able to go home tomorrow yet. They said that someone was going to come in and start trying to get her up and see if she could stand on her own, but that hadn’t happened by the time I left at about 6:15pm.
So I guess we’ll see tomorrow.
The Headline of the Day : Doctors Find Ketchup Packet Stuck In Woman’s Intestine For 6 Years
Thought for the Day:
“The only thing worse than fighting with allies is fighting without them.” – Winston Churchill
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Jan’s Doing A Little Better . . .
First I want to thank everyone for the dozens of get well wishes, so many that I can’t answer them all separately right now.
I was back at the hospital by 9 this morning, wanting to be sure I was there when the urologist came by. I was told he normally came in early, but he didn’t show up until about 1pm. Maybe that’s early for him.
About noon I went down to the cafeteria to grab a sandwich to eat there. I didn’t want to bring it back to the room, afraid the sight and smell would make Jan even hungrier than she already is, not having eaten until yesterday morning.
Luckily, besides the standard cafeteria food, they had farmed out the sandwich area and had fresh Subway subs, and chicken sandwiches from Chick-fil-A. So I went with a Spicy Chicken Sandwich from CFA. Really good and better food than I was expecting,
The urologist showed up about 1pm and turned everything around. He wants to treat the UTI and get that taken care of before they worry about the remaining kidney stone. In fact they may wait 10 days or so before they come back to it. She’s not in any pain from it so it should work out OK.
What they wanted to do today was to put in a urethral stent to help flush and drain her right kidney where the infection is.
They took her in to PreOp about 3pm, started the procedure at 3:45 and were done by 4pm. Pretty quick.
By 6pm she was much more coherent and not as drowsy. I did get her to eat a few bites of turkey sandwich and some Jell-o when her dinner tray came. But that filled her up pretty fast, so they’ll try to get her more later this evening.
I left about 7pm and stopped off at King Food for a big bowl of Hot & Sour Soup before I headed back to the rig.
I’ll be back down there by about 9 tomorrow morning. really hoping to see a big improvement after the Cipro really kicks in and she’s gotten a little more food in her.
Thought for the Day:
The only thing worse than hospital coffee is discovering that the only Lipton tea bags they have are decaffeinated.
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