Day 251 - Procedure Scheduled & Trying to Talk
Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 Mom got back to the room from the ER around 3:30am. James decided to wake up, it's like he knew Mom just came back. He stayed up until 5:30am. Then Mom slept from 5:30am to 7:30am. James was then up for the day... Mom has been staying every night at the hospital while Dad gets back to work. Dad has been coming to the hospital in the evenings to relieve Mom so she can go home and take a quick shower. He handles trach and G-tube care, does a wipe down bath, changes his outfit, reads books, and plays guitar. Once James gets his melatonin at 9:00pm usually it has kicked in by 9:30pm. Lately it has also been taking his 10:00pm clonidine to get him to sleep. We finally got the small bowel series scheduled for 9:00am tomorrow, Wednesday. James will be NPO starting at 5:00am. The doctor today also started discussing discharge mainly due to the fact that the Reglan is now out of his system and he is tolerating his feeds, the ventilator, and his weaning of...