Small Successes

Entry from Tony:

Thursday Night, July 8, 2011

Linda is her nurse this evening. we talked for quite awhile and she mentioned she was Mom's nurse last night when she took a turn for the worse. She was great. We had some small successes. She was more responsive at times. You could tell she grew tired very quickly, but when she had bouts of strength she showed some improvements. She was squeezing fingers when asked and even opened her eyes several times and would focus in on you when you talked to her. Although it isn't fun to watch, she has become agitated at all the tubes and was frequently reaching for them. Linda mentioned that this purposeful response was actually a good sign.

Docs just did rounds. Mom did pretty good for them. She squeezed fingers when asked and wiggled toes. The one thing she didn't do as well for them was open her eyes on her own and then focusing on the doc. She had done that very well earlier, even turning her head to look at me. They said they are going to lower her Sodium, do an angio in 3-5 days and look at extubating her today if she will wake up a little more.