Tired from Sitting Up

Spent a long and quiet day alone with Andrea, seemed very long as she slept most of the day, waking up for only short times.  When we got to the hospital a little after 8 this morning, her nurse had her sitting up in the Stryker chair where she sat for an hour.  Later in the afternoon she awoke long enough to get her back in the Stryker chair and went up to 4th floor healing gardens.  She managed to stay awake the whole time we were gone from her room.  the nurses say that when a patient is so weak it is not unusual to have them sleep most of the day as the energy they use to situp is about all they can manage, and it tires them out to the point that they just want to sleep.  When she sleeps, it is very deep, and she even snores a bit, I guess the deep relaxed sleep is therapeutic too.  She still has a drain tube under her arm and it gives her quite abit of pain at times.  Hopefully it can soon come out.  Well it is time to close and get some sleep, hope it soon warms up outside.

 

Thanks, Maynard