Wednesday Panama City 1.0
Good morning.
This morning we left the motel very early, went by hospital to see Malinda, then headed home to 7H for an hour or so for essential tasks. Getting 16 (holy jumping jiminy cricket, are you sure you want to live into your eighties?!) bottles of prescription meds between us that we'd run out of, moving fresh food to freezer as necessary, while here picking up a few things such as hearing aid domes and various items that, in last Friday evening's total panic with 911 ER and chasing ambulance to Pensacola, we neglected to bring. Also, Linda is running a washer and dryer load, then we will head directly back to SacredHeart ICU471 Pensacola.
Kristen returned to Pensacola from PC last evening and spent the night in the room with her mom, and Ray & Britany got to sleep.
When we stopped in 471, Malinda was awake and alert, conversing in full sentences, and told Linda she is hungry. Ray just texted me that they have M in the reclining chair and that they are putting her on a full diet. Marvelous news, just as if she were recuperating for discharge. But not so, of course. The medics are closely attentive and constantly monitoring for brain activity and doing scans for progress and as minute to minute precaution against stroke or other event.
All going well, M will have the second procedure next Tuesday, May 29, this time probably invasive through the skull, to clip the aneurysm that burst and that is only temporarily repaired, and while open drain off blood accumulated in the brain between the time of her cerebral accident at home sometime last Friday and when the first procedure was done Saturday late morning. From that time she will be back to extremely critical and will be in the ICU a minimum of two weeks before being moved to a step-down unit, thence able to be transported to a rehab facility in PC. So thank you for all the notes and prayers, dear ones, keep going, because we are still deep in the forest, not out of the woods, and day to day.
My apologies that this update is late, but we had to get on the road ASAP this morning so as to finish our tasks here and immediately return.
The good news: my child is alive. RSF&PTL
Tom
This morning we left the motel very early, went by hospital to see Malinda, then headed home to 7H for an hour or so for essential tasks. Getting 16 (holy jumping jiminy cricket, are you sure you want to live into your eighties?!) bottles of prescription meds between us that we'd run out of, moving fresh food to freezer as necessary, while here picking up a few things such as hearing aid domes and various items that, in last Friday evening's total panic with 911 ER and chasing ambulance to Pensacola, we neglected to bring. Also, Linda is running a washer and dryer load, then we will head directly back to SacredHeart ICU471 Pensacola.
Kristen returned to Pensacola from PC last evening and spent the night in the room with her mom, and Ray & Britany got to sleep.
When we stopped in 471, Malinda was awake and alert, conversing in full sentences, and told Linda she is hungry. Ray just texted me that they have M in the reclining chair and that they are putting her on a full diet. Marvelous news, just as if she were recuperating for discharge. But not so, of course. The medics are closely attentive and constantly monitoring for brain activity and doing scans for progress and as minute to minute precaution against stroke or other event.
All going well, M will have the second procedure next Tuesday, May 29, this time probably invasive through the skull, to clip the aneurysm that burst and that is only temporarily repaired, and while open drain off blood accumulated in the brain between the time of her cerebral accident at home sometime last Friday and when the first procedure was done Saturday late morning. From that time she will be back to extremely critical and will be in the ICU a minimum of two weeks before being moved to a step-down unit, thence able to be transported to a rehab facility in PC. So thank you for all the notes and prayers, dear ones, keep going, because we are still deep in the forest, not out of the woods, and day to day.
My apologies that this update is late, but we had to get on the road ASAP this morning so as to finish our tasks here and immediately return.
The good news: my child is alive. RSF&PTL
Tom