UPDATE – 6:45pm
Just spoke with mom’s nurse again for another update. Nothing new to report. Her vitals are still good and she’s been sleeping the entire time. She’s starting to stir more easily when people come in and she’ll open her eyes when someone deals with her IV. Other than that, she still appears to be comfortable. She’s not grimacing in pain but they are keeping an eye on it. Since it’s getting late, I am not going back until sometime tomorrow morning. Not planning on too early though – I want to give the case managers time to get there and review her case and hopefully give the therapists time to make it in to assess her. The more people that can see her before I get there will help with the planning and avoid a lot of waiting around time.
Cyndie will most likely do the next check in call. Unless anything alarming happens, I won’t be posting an update until sometime tomorrow.
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UPDATE – 3:30pm
I just spoke with mom’s nurse and she is still sleeping pretty comfortably. She stirs when they go in to check on her so she knows that they are there but she doesn’t completely wake up. Her vitals are still good and everything is fine. I’m trying to stick around at home to take care of what needs to be done here while I can. I’ll be calling again in a few hours but of course I know that they will call if there is an emergency. Will post an update if anything changes. As of right now I am assuming that she’ll continue to rest. Unfortunately it’s possible that she will be up sometime during the night, hopefully not causing any trouble. My current plan is to just head up in the morning. Case managers and therapists should be available then so hopefully we will be able to work out a game plan.
UPDATE – 12:10pm
Mom made it through surgery fine. Waiting for her to be brought back to her room. It will likely be a sleepy day for her today. No idea of discharge plans yet. I think main goal is to at least get her sitting in a chair. I do have her walker and brace with shoes here in case therapists want to get her to stand. More updates when I can.
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Mom was wheeled back about 10 minutes ago. Her numbers look great this morning. I haven’t spoken with her since she’s been sleeping peacefully – she apparently got pretty combative last night so she was given some stuff to calm her down and sleep. She was still sleeping it off when they took her into the OR.
Between set up, the actual surgery and then the recovery, it’s going to be 2-3 hours before I get an update. I’ll post when I can as I know more.