Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Dan and I visited this afternoon but, once again, we could not wake Estelle. She looks well - all of the swelling and redness in her arms and eye is totally gone and her general color is good. The nurse's aide said that she had said, "Thank you," after being dressed this morning, so we know she is still waking and talking occasionally, we've just not been there at the right times apparently.

We also had a meeting with her social worker and the head nurse to discuss her progress and her care plan post hospitalization. No big changes - same meds as before, oxygen as needed, nebulizer treatments as needed, she gets turned every two hours, hand splints are on 4 hours, off 2 hours during the day time and off at night. They are going to try getting her up in a chair more often but because of the continued lethargy it's hard to do because she slumps badly and looks horribly uncomfortable after a very short period of time. We prefer to be there when she's up because we never know for sure when they put her back in bed if we do not ask them to do it before we leave.

Maintenance finally put 3 of the 4 pictures up on the walls. It looks very nice and at least somewhat more "homey," now.