October 2nd
What a start! Mom got checked in, switched over, and
bathed by the neurosurgical team! They started her on antibiotics at
5am. Attempted to put a tube down her nose to help with medicine
administration and suck out contents of her stomach. They tried twice
and mom was not having it nor helping with the placement of the tube.
Boy have I had some conversations this morning.
We
are in a really critical place right now. If she doesn't show
improvement that pretty much means she will not recover and then it's
all about comfort.
A real nice doctor came in, first thing, to
get a better understanding of mom and her/our situation. We talked for a
bit in her room then I thought the conversation should be taken out of
ear shot so we went to a conference room on the floor. When we came
back mom was talking to me bit and was responsive-following the doctor
with her head and answered a couple of his questions.
While in
the conference room the doctor and I talked about what care here at the
hospital is to look like. He posed a couple different options. Long
story short I told him I wanted a hybrid of the two situations he
mentioned.
He mentioned....1. Just controlling pain 2. Taking
any means necessary to cure the infection and her possibly not making it
out of the hospital. 3. A combination of both (which gets tricky).
Again
I said I wanted both. I told him I think/thought she can/could fight
this infection. I also said that because I know she doesn't want to end
up on a ventilator as her last time on earth. I told him (as he is well
versed in extremely sick people working in the ICU only) if he sees her
decline to the point of her not getting well (from the antibiotics) we
need to stop treatment and take her home for comfort.
They laid
off the nose tube and gave her water then lactalose orally. We found out
that she is no longer clogged up. She had two solid bowel movements.
They continued her antibiotics, lactalose, and rufaximum, she seemed to
show improvement in both her body and mind.
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