Mom’s Status: 2010-09-28
Summary
Mom continued her physical improvements. I talked with her last night, and sister Diane visited her today. We agree that she’s certainly more alert and that she had lots of reasons to be thrilled at her progress. Today, she walked a few tens of feet across a room. Yes, she had assistance. But in my mind, this represents monumental improvement over how weak and disabled she was just three weeks ago. Yet because, as she sees it, she’s only shown modest improvement physically over the past couple weeks, and not to the degree she wants, her sadness appears to be returning. But some good news is that her memory still appears good. However, nurses are concerned that she likes to bundle up so tightly, so much of the time. Her run of antibiotic was supposed to be done a few days ago. But they’ve opted to keep her on a reduced dose for an as-yet-to-be-determined amount of time. The monitoring of her condition has begun. Again, we’ll watch for a return of her fever and other signs of a MRSA return. Nonetheless, we hope that if that happens, she’ll have less pain than before. She now has her cell phone again. So friends are welcome to call her and try to cheer her up.