Leenie's daily dos.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Tuesday, 04/07/09
Dear Friends,Yesterday was a very busy one for Eileen. She just couldn't seem to stop moving - from the bed, to the chair, back to bed, up to commode chair and so on. Her lungs are clear but only because of routine suctioning. Her mind was clear as well. This even though she'd had a respiratory crisis in the middle of the night - probably a large mucous plug that was not suctioned out quickly enough and had pulled out her tracheostomy tube this morning. She has three choices at this juncture:Transfer to ICU and ultimately be placed on a ventillator;Continue to be treated with radiation and a feeding tube in her stomach so that she will not aspirate the food and medicines we give her. However, if, during this phase, there comes a time that she requires a ventilator or CPR, neither will be offered to her. These are her wishes;The third choice is to stop therapy and be discharged on oxygen and Home Health Care Nursing visits every few days.She choses to continue therapy & will have a tube placed in her stomach tomorrow to stop the aspiration of food and meds and give her some strength and will go down to radiation to be re-measured & marked so that treatments can be given with her sitting at a 45 degree angle. She plans to give Henry as many hard, painful shots of radiation as the Lord allows.Sh,e has been flirting with the respiratory therapists, asking one and all for a cigarette and reading prayers to the Blessed Mother. So she is very much here. . . . Lorane , ,
Posted by Lorane at 6:32 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
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