Sandi Monday Evening

For the first time today since she was admitted, Sandi was able to take a shower this morning because her oxygen numbers were better. She is not back to normal, but the addition of whatever the new drug is that they put into the orange juice  and the antibiotics seems to be working. She managed to take a long shower, get dressed, and sit back in her chair with the sensor numbers still in the mid eighties range. This is a huge improvement.

They still believe it to be pneumonia. As part of all their testing they have tested her for West Nile fever and have cleared her on that. I was concerned this could possibly be at fault with her because we live on a creek here in the complex and there are certainly plenty of mosquitoes around. We take precautions, but still things can happen. The good news is that they have tested more than once for that and are sure it is not present.

Earlier today it was decided to arrange to have oxygen for her at home. Arrangements have been made and the plan is for it to be delivered to her hospital room. They will give her as well as me some sort of training course on this as there is a portable unit for when she has to have a doctor visit or something and some sort of home base unit that will stay here. The belief is that she will need this assistance for just a couple of weeks or so  and then everything can be returned to the equipment dealer. They hope to have it delivered to the hospital tomorrow morning and if so, as we understand it now, they would send her home late tomorrow.

This all assumes they can make their end of things happen and she does all right tonight. Fingers crossed and more as I know it....