All my information about Woody tonight is 2nd hand. I was at home all day today. Melany and Wade went to see him. Melany worked more on his hair and managed to get all the glue out of it from the EEG leads. He is connected to nothing except IVs and I think those are only for meds. He had a swallow test while they were there and did not pass. He is allowed to have a few, very few, ice chips every hour. They did put a feeding tube down his nose. He can't afford to not be fed. When Melany and Wade left they were still waiting for x-ray to come check the position of the tube so they could start his feedings. He is hungry...asking for eggs, his comfort food! His mind isn't exactly clear...it wasn't totally clear when he went into the hospital, but this is different...may be due to being asleep for so long, just being in ICU, or the fact that they gave his some pain medication that I questioned...but that was approved by "the team" and it was "only" a very light dose. Well, the last time he got confused due to medication, he didn't come out of it for months...some of you will remember his "running for President!" (major eye roll inserted on my part remembering that) The plan is for him to be transferred to the step-down unit. Who knows when that will happen! The nurse is supposed to call me when that happens. From what Melany understood, he may well still be in ICU when we get back there tomorrow...transfer doesn't happen very quickly there. Melany and Wade saw several sets of doctors while they were there...so we did get some information. We did find out that they have put him on a seizure med, but that they may take him off since they don't think that the big seizure he had last Saturday had anything to do with dialysis. I guess they are still trying to figure out just exactly what is going on with him. I had been told yesterday that he would have his next dialysis on Monday. Today they were saying that he will have dialysis tomorrow. In the rounds yesterday they said that they were trying to get him on his Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule...so who knows! It really doesn't matter as once he gets back to our clinic, they will get him on the schedule they want hin on. I continue to be really sleepy. I'm sure that it is a combination of "things" that have been going on with Woody and me going back and forth to Nashville plus my eye surgery...my eyes feel tired. I have been trying to rest them today...lots of sitting in my chair with my eyes closed. I have done a load of wash getting ready to repack when Melany gets here tomorrow morning. She is coming to take me back to Vanderbilt. I ran a couple of errands today. One of them was a stop to get some sunglasses...at the moment I only have one lens in my glasses which means I only have sunglasses for one eye as my glasses have transition lenses. It was fun to pick out a non-prescription pair of sunglasses...hadn't done that since I wore contacts many, many years ago. I made a couple of other stops and then headed home to put in my eye drops. I'm just lacking one more pair of drops for today. Just two more days for the antibiotic drops then it will just be the steroid for another week...of course it will be time to start the drops in the left eye as I stop doing them in the right eye. Perhaps I'll have more to report tomorrow night since I will be there then. My eyes close earlier this past week than theyh have in a while. Hard to keep awake till time to put drops in. Last night I didn't, but the alarm on my phone did its job and woke me up. Eyes are wanting to close right now...hope the blog makes sense! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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