Dan was far too eloquent this morning for me to compete with - and it's been a long day and we're both fairly exhausted.
Just a quick update on our visits today. We ended up going to see Mom twice today, once in the early part of the afternoon and once again around dinner time.
The first time we were there she was quite talkative. Unfortunately Dan understood her much better than I did. I do know she was alternating between sense and nonsense for much of our stay. Her eyes were open but she was focused on something we could not see. She was also talking to Joe often and much confused as to where she was and what was happening around here.
Near the end of our visit I became upset when I realized that although she was wearing her oxygen cannula it was not turned on and I hunted down the nurse who had just come on shift and seemed unsure as to why. We had her recheck Mom's oxygen saturation and it was quite low at 93 to 95% which could very well be a major factor in her confusion. The nurse promised to come back and give her a breathing treatment and restart her oxygen.
We had to leave at that point as we still had shopping and other errands to do but after dropping the groceries off at home we did return to Woodbine to make sure all was well. Mom was still awake and glad to see us again so we stayed briefly, assured her that one or both of us would return tomorrow morning and left her a bit sad but, hopefully, not as confused and feeling a bit better than she did earlier.
If she is not better tomorrow or if her saturation is still low we will speak to the nursing supervisor and/or call the doctor.
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