And, as I type this another helicopter is flying in. Sometimes it is a constant "thing!" Today has been an interesting day...as it progressed less and less happened. He did not get his procedure because there were too many in front of him who had an urgent need for the services of the Intervention Radiologists (IR). Woody has a line for dialysis and some don't. So he went all day without eating to get out off till tomorrow! He did get supper, as did I as there was an extra tray and our nurse snagged it for me. So he is satisfied at the moment since he has now eaten...and it was Vandy's yummy pot roast...it is really good...very tender. He really enjoyed the Pot Roast when he was here in December and it was just as good tonight. Woody didn't have the best night...didn't sleep well and his blood pressure was going low. When his labs came b@ck in the early hours, it showed that his hemoglobin had gone down to a point that he needed another unit of blood. They are just watching him carefully and he did not get moved from ICU. We are still in the same room. PT came in and evaluated him today as did wound care. He did a good job of transferring from the bed to the chair and has been in the chair for a much longer time than yesterday. He ate his supper sitting up in the chair and voted to stay in it for a while longer. It is nurse shift change. We had the same nurse this afternoon as we did yesterday afternoon and we now have the same nurse as we had last night. I like having nurses that we have already had. I was going to add: as long as we like the nurse! But truthfully we have had no poor nurses at all in this entire journey of three hospitals. And, of course, being in ICU they are very attentive to Woody. I did get a call this afternoon about when he is discharged. I let them know that we weren't interested in rehab...been there gone that route! He is already so much stronger than he was prior to this "adventure" that I'm sure that we can just go home and move on from there. The home health wound care called today and told me to call when he was going home and that they would get him back into their schedule. So we won't have to go through a lot of hoops to get wound care or home health set up. It will depend on what kind of access Woody ends up with as to where dialysis will happen. If they are able to get his graft working or if he has the tunnel catheter. The tunnel catheter takes no sticking. It is the way I originally learned to do his dialysis so I can probably take up where I left off. But that is not ideal for any length of time and is a bigger risk for infection since the line is so close to the heart. He will have to have another surgery to have this graft repositioned or another graft put in...and, I don't want that for Woody. So praying that they will be able to unblock/bust the clot in his present graft. Melany came for a visit today. She planned to come visit and then go to her doctor to see if she couod get her boot off, but the doctor's office called while she was here and rescheduled her appointment as her doctor is sick. So she has a few more days to heal before he checks her foot. Once Woody got through having to have another transfusion and seeing a string of doctors, he has had a pretty quiet day. His night nurse is getting him ready to get back into bed for the night. Hoping that he sleeps well and that he gets the procedure to fix his graft done tomorrow along with dialysis. To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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