Well we're back in the green again..Now if she can just give me a nice low blue...or even another nice green number in the AM, I'll be a happy camper :mrgreen:
Got to go spend the afternoon at the SNU...they do Care Plan meetings on Tuesdays at 1pm, but that doesn't mean we have an appointment at 1...it's just "whenever" they get to you...I hate the waiting around worse than just about anything, especially when it seems like such a waste of time. She's not going to be staying there much longer (depending on what they say tomorrow, we're thinking we'll move her to the nearby nursing home on Friday) and then we'll have another Care Plan meeting to go to there next week.
On a good note, she's sounding much more like my mother! Her voice is stronger than it's been in a very long time, so it's obvious that she's getting better oxygen now. She's able to walk all the way down the hall and back now and does it 5-8 times per day and is still able to talk when she's done. For the weeks prior to surgery, she couldn't walk from her bathroom to her bed (about 6 feet) without gasping for air and having to take several minutes before she could talk.
The chest incision is looking great, but there's still some oozing out of the incision in her leg where they took the grafts. I've heard that the leg incision can cause more trouble than the huge one down the chest, and I guess it has to do with the legs not having the best circulation...but the swelling in her ankles and legs is much better than it'd been before, so we're making progress there too.
One thing we are going to have to watch is her blood glucose...Sigh...she's been a diet controlled diabetic for years, but it looks like she's not as controlled as she thought she was. Her blood glucose is averaging in the 150's and they'd like it lower than 120..and around 100 would be even better, so she may be having to go on insulin. They're giving her R when it's elevated, but I don't know what they'll do in the future. She thought her A1C was about 6...the last one they did was 8.8
