Mom has had a rough couple of days. She is in pain and restless to the point that she doesn't know what she is doing. She has tried to pull her IV tubes out, repeatedly. Last night, she somehow managed to completely pull out her epidural, all on her own, which according to her nurse required quite a bit of effort on her part. The hospital staff decided not to put it back into place.She vomited all over herself right before we arrived this morning and they had just cleaned her up and the doctor had looked-in on her. It happened again about 12:30 pm. Each time, she lost about 100 cc of fluid. The nurses alerted the doctor, who ordered an X-ray to try to determine what is happening. We hope to get word on what the X-ray shows by this evening. He also ordered a tube to be inserted into her stomach (via her nose) to keep the stomach fluids drained out of her stomach. She tried to rip the tyvek bracelet off her wrist and kept pulling at all the tubes, so she had to be restrained.
What frightens me most at this point is that she seemed to be doing better immediately after her surgery than she is doing now.
The only bright thing that happened today was the delivery of a beautiful basket of flowers (see photo) from Aunt Marcia & Uncle Brady, June & Hank, and David & Cathy. Oh, and the student nurse who was shadowing Mom's RN today reminded me a lot of my friend Asilinn!
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