Today I arrived at the hospital just in time to see the doctor on her rounds. My mom was sitting in the chair and she looked good, like herself just a little thiner. She told me that she was tired because she was on danish time (that is her way of saying that her days and nights are mixed up)...she had to wear the Bi-PAP machine and really does not like it...she lasted 3 hours and then took it off. The doctor asked her about that and she went into a long story....she did sound a bit confused and off topic although I could see that she was trying explain something that made perfect sense in her head but it came out discombobulated...the doctor tried to make sense of it. The doctor talked about her moving since she was not in need of any acute care and that she really was pretty stable....but the doctor asked my mom if it would be ok to talk to me outside the door, my mom said sure.
Outside the doctor expressed her concern about my mom's confusion...I said I had worried a bit about it too as she has said some things to me that were interesting like she saw a man in a red sweater outside the door and she works for one of the nurses....she told me that she wanted to do a brain scan to see if maybe she had a stroke....I told her that a scan had been done of the 5th of April so she looked it up and read to me what it said...no sign of stroke just some narrowing of arteries brought on by smoking....the rest looked good. It was decided to have a psych evaluation. The doctor ordered it and he came within a few minutes. He did is psychology protocol and left the room....he returned a while later to talk to me...he said that what my mom has is NOT dementia that she has a type of delirium brought on by the trauma she has been through and that it would go away with time.
I asked the doctor what she thought my mom's prognosis was and she said that she sees my mom getting better, I wanted to know if she thought my mom would be oxygen dependent and she said no. The doctor didn't think that the Bi-PAP machine would make a huge difference in her Co2 status she thought that as my mom gets stronger and keeps her nutrition up that she could continue to get better but she must do her incentive spirometer every hour...inhaling to the count of 4 5-10x every hour - so please when you are visiting remind her to do it.
My mom has moved...she is at Windsor Elk Grove 9461 Batey Ave., Elk Grove, CA 95624 the phone number is (916)685-9525 - she does not have a phone in her room but they told me that they have cordless phones that they can bring to her if she gets a call. I went with her there and everyone seems very nice...it felt very chaotic this afternoon and I had to leave before they got her truly settled but Leif and Christian were there and said that she is now in room 23B a nice window bed. It will be interesting what the therapists decide her routine will be. She is much stronger than when she got to Eskaton so I am hoping that she will be on-board with what they want her to do. There are nice outside places to be so hopefully my mom will get wheeled outside...the sunshine will do her good.
Thank you everyone.......here's to a successful rehab....go Lis, mom, Oowa you can do it.
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