Day 200 - Finding the Sweet Spot
Sunday, July 18th, 2021 Last night Dad slept at the hospital so that Mom could get a night of sleep at home. Not so much for the bed but that it's more than 3 hours of sleep. Can one full night of sleep a week get Mom all caught up to continue 6 days of 21 hour shifts? We will see. Around 1:30pm Dad did trach ties with the nurse. As the nurse suctioned him he gagged and then spit up. This wasn't really a vomit as much as a spit up. They were unable to continue with trach care and would resume again at 3:15pm along with a bath. We held off on the miralax this morning as well as the milk of mag last night, but we did continue with the prune juice today at 11am and 4pm. Around 5pm, Mom noticed that his G-tube was leaking through his onesie so she changed that redressed his stoma with a new split gauze. He had several wet diapers also. At 6:20pm James had a massive diaper. Mom was washing her pumping bottles and syringes and heard James make some of the loudest bowel movements. ...