Saturday Morning

John had a restless night last night.  With the increased diuretics and no catheter, he was up quite often.  They removed the large tube from his neck.  So all that he has left is his PICC line and his drainage tubes. 

He was in good spirits when I arrived.  He shaved and brushed his teeth.   Then we ordered breakfast of peaches and scrambled eggs.  He thought the peaches were sour, I tried them, they were fine.  I think his taste buds are off.  Then on his first bite of eggs he started gagging and lost the peaches.  At least he hadn't just had his pills like last night.

Occupational Therapy came to take him for his first walk, so we switched his power to batteries.  He took a short walk around the ICU which tired him out, so back to bed.  We tried some strawberry Ensure to get some protien.  About 15 minutes later, that came back up.  He is resting now.

I am going to take a couple of hours off now.  Jen is here and I have a few errands to run.

Colleen