Saturday, March 19, 2011

#28 It's Been a Long Week

Well mom has been in the hospital since last Sunday (almost a week).  She has about a foot of her intestines removed this time due to a twisting.  Because it was twisted for so long, a section of her intestines actually died and was on it's way to become septic.  She's been on a cocktail of all types of drugs and meds.  However as of today she is only receiving one thing thru her IV and that is a nourishment solution.  She had to have a tube thru her nose that was draining the bile from her stomach, however two days ago at midnight she became barbaric and pulled the tube out of her nose while she was half asleep.  The doctors were going to put it back in, but her nurses convinced him not to. 
Her intestines are starting to wake up, make gurgling sounds, and function the way they are suppose to.  Once that started to happen, she was permitted a liquid diet, but as of this morning she is on a full normal diet.  But that does not mean she is allowed to just start eating though.  This morning she had 1 egg white, 2 bites of rice cereal, and about 4 bites of yogurt.
Because of all the meds she has developed Diabetes.  We are told this is just temporary, fingers crossed.
They are thinking of sending her home tomorrow, but we all feel (and so does she) that it might be too soon. 

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