Momday April 27

When I went to see dad today the first thing I noticed was they had taken off his hand restraints! And then I noticed how the swelling had gone down in his hands! Majorly down! His patient arm band had been really snug and today I could put my hand through it, I could probably slipped it off dad's hand if I had tried.

Dad was on CPAP for 9 hours today. This is really great.

The nurses cut back on the "feeding" and the feeding tube has quit leaking. Yay!

I didn't stay too long today because while I was there dad starting getting really agitated, his blood pressure was already up but then heart rate went up to the 130's even hit 140 so I called the nurse and she had to give him some Versed to get him calm. As he started calming down I decided maybe it would be best if I left. I don't know if I was the cause of the agitation, the nurse said it wasn't me that some patients just get excited when family comes to visit. I don't know. I'll go back tomorrow and see how he does.

Keep those prayers going up for dad and me.

Kathy

Sunday April 26

Not much new. Dad has been on CPAP almost all day. This is good.

The nurses noticed that dad's feeding tube (also called a G-tube) was "leaking" again. Dr B looked at it this morning and thought that maybe the problem was dad was getting too much "food" to fast so they are cutting back on the amount of fluid he gets to see it that fixes the problem.

Dad's agitation seems to be a tiny bit less today. Not that it has gone away. But we are back to those "baby steps" again.

That's about all I have for today. A tiny step forward and none apparently backward today.

Keep those prayers going up for dad and me.

Kathy