Wednesday

Jodi’s WBC’s are back to normal and her temperature is also normal. It looks as if we may have dodged the bullet with her having an infection. She got up into a chair today which gets the secretions in her lungs moving and helps her to feel better over all. They may have to put a needle into her right lung to drain the fluid that has accumulated as a result of this last surgery. She is hoping to avoid that. They have been giving her Lasix, a medication that helps to get the fluids off the body. They have introduced tube feedings at a very slow pace. By late this afternoon, she was complaining that she was both hungry and thirsty. She asked that they increase the rate that she is being fed through the tube. That is a good sign that the tube is in the right place because she is not having any pain with the feeding. Hopefully, it won’t be long before she is able to return to rehab and start to focus on relearning to walk etc. Her spirits are a little low but that could be because she is so tired physically as well as mentally. She has had to endure so much pain as of late.

Mom