Day 36... Day 1 Post-OP we found Mom in good spirits. They have her on a epidural IV drip for pain which releases her pain med on a regular basis and she's been doing very well on it... They even had her sitting up on the edge of her bed for 45 minutes and proudly informed us she did her 'ABC workout'. As Dr. Zane was in Santa Barbara lecturing at a Medical Conference his assistant, Dr. Haas (can't remember his last name) came in to check on Mom. Where Dr. Zane is upbeat and positive energy, Dr. Haas is not.... His opening line to Mom was, "Well we opened you up and there was quite a mess in there..." Mom told us later, she 'silently' refers to him as 'Dr. Eeyore'... Eeyore is a character from Winnie the Pooh, the gloom and doom donkey =D She says she'll just wait and see what Dr. Zane has to say....
Her hemoglobin was low so they gave her a couple of pints of blood yesterday... but still NO ice chips! She had the nurse write down on the white board in her room, under 'Comments to the Doctor'... "Can I have Ice Chips!" She said 'Dr. Eeyore' told her she could but never wrote it down and "Those nurses won't do ANYTHING unless the Doctors write it down!" Overall her 1st day Post-OP we think she did really well... We'll see how we find her Day 2 Post-OP and let you know...
As for Barbara, Nursing staff states right now there's no change in status. However, the results of the culture they did on the fluid in her lungs came in positive for the antibiotic treatment they have her on, which means her doctors are on the right track.... We've got calls in to her doctors for status updates and are still waiting reply.
More later xoxoxo...
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