It has been a full month since we walked in the door at Presby Main. It angers me that we were so close to leaving and here we are. Her arm is in massive pain. Her hip is causing pain but not nearly as much as before the surgey. She is fearful of standing thinking she will fall again. Her mind is going – doctors call it hospital psychosis where her mind shuts off while her body heals. Last night she was lucid and we actually had a conversation about it and she said she was afraid she is losing her mind. Chip was here and we both explained it was temporary and she seemed to get it. She was so lucid! Then this morning she is chattering incomprehensibly and asking me where the baby is. "The baby should be walking." She is not eating and that feeds into her problems of not healing.
They want to insert the feeding tube, but cannot do the procedure until her blood thickens up.Her INR level is 2.34 which is too high and they will wait til next week. That just means her blood is still too thin from the Coumadin to do the surgery required to insert the peg. So they’ve stopped the Coumadin and will let her level rise naturally over the weekend and check it first of next week. They are also concerned about her kidneys and the renal doctors are coming in to consult.
Always something...
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