Day 12: Some incredible milestones today...
She sat up twice, saw the occupational therapist twice, cardiologist said her heart was back to normal and the doctors to be very optimistic. All the tests were positive and mom continues to be the sweetest, kindest, loving patient on ICU.
She says thank you and please to every doctor, thanks the nurses when they help her and wants us to remind her of everyone that is helping her. Another perfect example...I was rubbing her hand today and I thought for sure she had fallen asleep. I closed my eyes for a split second and she said, "you must b etired, here (patted her hand on the bed) put your head down, I'll share with you". Leave it to Boise to be so nurturing and loving when SHE is in the hospital.
She's also had an interesting thought of wanting to write a book about experiencing a stroke from the inside out. We'll see...
No joke about the book ideas....if possible try to keep a more medical type of log, Stacy with mom's progress/setbacks etc -- be descriptive as possible...frequency of entries is good idea.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, you will have the blog conversations to supplement Mom's experiences.
Go for it -- Kathy
also take some pictures of the medical team -- get some comments from them if appropriate.
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