Update on My Mom

Well, we are 48 hours into this event and there have been some small (yet positive)changes.
As you know in this situation, we take what we can get!

There were no changes overnight but within a half hour of me being in the room with her today, she started to wake up. She tried to sit up (she is strapped for safety) and she tried to swing her legs off the side of the bed. The day nurse felt that it was a positive sign and passed the info to the Dr.

He suggested that they shut down the breathing machine for an hour and she if she can hold her own for a while. After the hour they would check the oxygen levels in her blood to see if she was ready for the breathing tube to be removed.

She did great for the hour. It really must be an awful feeling to wake up and have a tube jammed down your throat. She gagged a bit but did seem to stay relaxed as much as she could. The key was to keep her heart rate down and get her breaths stronger and deeper.

The nurse had her blood labs done and she still had low oxygen levels. They felt that she could use another day of machine assistance. We will try again tomorrow.

I will post another update tomorrow.
Lynne