More Progress

Good Evening

 

Just returned from Andrea's room she was nearly asleep after not napping at all today.  I hope all of you will understand this, but our hopes and dreams of her recovering have been dashed so often, her improvements have been so small, that when I very tentatively and with much hesitation tell you that today has been by far the best day she has had since her VAD was put in, you will understand.  Don't misunderstand me we are extremely grateful for the gains she has made to date.  She was a lot more talkative today,moving around in bed more easily, not nauseated or in a lot of pain either.  We just hope that the improvements we have seen in the last few days will continue.  It helps that her brother and his wife were in to stay with her while Faye and I got out for awhile this afternoon.  The night shift nurse that had her last night was working again tonight, and her observation was that she could see a lot of improvement in the last 24 hours.  there seems to be evidence that her kidneys may work again, how well remains to be seen. The physio therapist that has been working with her very diligently worked with Andrea again today, and she said one of the goals in the near future will be to have her stand up again.  What she needs the most for that to happen is for her calf muscles to stretch and strengthen again, right now they are still quite painful.  She was also up in her wheelchair for 2 hours today, which is the longest stretch she has been up so far.  Well morning will come soon enough, so now to bed I go.  Please continue in prayer for Andrea and us.

 

Thanks, Maynard