Sooo...long time, no see. How's life?
(long sigh)
Okay, so I haven't written in over a month. After my mom was extubated she spent another 5 days in the ICU and 2-3 days in the Medicine Ward. She was eventually transferred to Health South, a medical rehab hospital, where she spent another 2 weeks before coming home with a walker. She couldn't come straight home because she had a nose feeding tube and wasn't walking.
Nose feeding tube? Yes. Mom has a very small mouth and, apparently, throat and trachea and when they tried to intubate her, the doctor couldn't do it. After several tries, they had to call for an ER doc. So Mom's throat got the hell torn out of it and after the tubing was taken out, her throat was too swollen and sore for her to swallow. So she had a tube that went all the way up her nose, down her throat, and into her stomach. She had it for three weeks, poor dear. Even now that it's gone she has to be careful about what she eats and drinks and how she eats it.
She's home now, and I'm helping to take care of her. There's more to say, but I'm very tired and it's late and I have to get up early to make a doctor's appointment.
I will fill everyone in on everything! Just, not now!
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