Today I arrived at the hospital at 8:30 to find my mom with the tube in....she was moving around in a restless manner...and I told her that they would be getting the tube out. I noticed on the monitor that she still had a little temperature (about 99-100) her cheeks were flushed and her hands were still restrained but I stood and held her and and she held mine. A male nurse arrived and told me that he was going to put a pik line in (a special IV) and that I would have to leave, for sterile reasons, for about 30 minutes. My friend Stephanie was on her way with a latte so I went and waited for her. We returned to the room and the nurse said that x-ray was on their way to make sure the line was placed correctly and we would have to leave again....after xray they were going to take the tube out and I wouldn't be able to be in there for that either...so I decided to go and pick up her stuff from Windsor.
When I got back her tube was out and she was lying down....she was moving around a lot, seeming uncomfortable. I talked to her and she reacted to me. I feel so much better when she is in ICU..she has a nurse for 12 hours who has only one other patient so I feel that she is safe which makes me sleep better.
She is very confused with moments of clarity...she would answer little questions like whether or not she was cold, how many fingers we are showing her or how many kids she has and then there were questions like does a stone float on water...no answer although she thought about it...she said that she was at Kaiser and that it is April. The confusion is stumping the doctors and being that she has a fever they are trying to rule out infections...so she has been tested for influenza (a test she got really mad about) and a spinal tap for meningitis. I hope they find the answer. She also has MRSA-could that we doing it. We have to put a mask and gloves on whenever we go into the room.
She is speaking a lot of Danish and it seems like she is dreaming and then says something that I am not able to understand...a bit mumbly - but also in Danish. I asked her tonight if she was married to someone named Ib and she smiled and said yes and how many children did they have and she said 2....so my mom is in there she just hasn't completely reamerged.....
Overall I am not sure how I feel....I am worried that she has sustained so much trauma that she will not be able to come back then I remember what a feisty person her she is......when I left the hospital I told her, in Danish, to sov godt (sleep well) and she said tak i lige mode (thanks the same to you). I also told her that she was a good mom and she smiled.
Tomorrow is a new day and we shall see what it has in store for us.
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