Morning 4/27/10

It was a very positive day yesterday all and all. As I mentioned Jill woke up in the morning and gradually got some of her faculties back. By lunch time she was about 75% awake and wanting to communicate. She still had the breathing tube in her mouth so she was unable to say anything. She requested a pad of paper and pencil and started to write down questions such as, "what happened?", "where is she?", "how are the kids?", and "did you call work to tell them I wasn't going to be there today?" She is definitely starting to become her old self again. She is having some challenges with her short term memory, however. She doesn't remember what happened on Saturday or a lot of what has happened since (even when awake) but this is not unusual in situations like this. As much as we want everything to be better as soon as possible, there will clearly be things that will take time.

The breathing tube was her next challenge. It was very uncomfortable so she went right to the nurse and told them she wanted this removed. They started weaning her off of it in the late morning and by early afternoon they took it out and she was breathing on her own again. Another very positive sign.

She is still fighting the aspirational pneumonia. The cardiologist can't do any further tests to try and figure out what caused this until the infection specialist gives the ok. The pneumonia doesn't seem to bother her too much other than deep cough in her already sore throat (from the breathing tube that used to be there).

We are now back to waiting. Once she kicks the pneumonia, the doctors can start progressing again to figure out what happened and where do we go from here. She still is in CCU so she still isn't able to see visitors. They actually requested again yesterday that we take it easy on family visitors as well.

It was a great day yesterday. Keep up your thoughts and prayers, they appear to be working.