New Place

Mom has been moved to the Huguley Nursing and Rehab Center http://huguleynursing.com/
Phone # 817-551-5900 in Room 117, 301 Huguley Blvd . Burleson, TX 76028.

Her infections are cleared up - Praise the Lord! Today before she left Kindred, occupational therapy worked with her and she was sitting up and talking a bit. The plan is to have her here for a while to see if there is improvement. She is keeping her same Doctor, Tim Allen, which will be good for continuity. Please continue to pray for her and as she always prays - help her to be a blessing to someone.

Move

Today Mom might be moving to the Hugely Nursing Home we are working out the details and sorry for the short notice.

Slow Progress

There are really no changes. Mom is talking just a little bit and seems to be aware a little bit of what is going. She is still on antibiotic and getting occupational therapy. Please continue to prayer for her healing!

Visit

Mom has two infections going on VRE and MSRA, she will be on an antibiotic program for the next three weeks. Her fever is gone and so is the nausea/vomiting. The feeding tube rate was reduced so that helped with the nausea. Saturday night Mom received a blood transfusion, her hemoglobin was 8.0 and the she received two units of blood. Today it was up to 11.9. They are doing some testing to find where the blood is going (the lab lost one sample)

In the afternoons mom is more alert and talks a little bit. She has said our names and she even tried writing her name. Occupational therapy visited her today and noticed some real improvements with her holding her head up and her balance as she sat on the edge of the bed. The OT therapist "Becky" is a real blessing and had a wonderful prayer with us today! Beth and Glenn had been visiting her the last four days and it was a good visit. (sorry for the lack of updates, no Internet) We had a good time and Mom did recognize us for the most part. Please keep praying!

Set Back

Yesterday Mom started getting an infection. Today she has a high Temperature of 102 deg and has been throwing up! There is a concern that it might be a septic infection (blood poisoning). She has been on antibiotics for several days now due to an urinary tract infection. There was a blood culture done today and hopefully on Wednesday we will know more. On Sunday Mom was talking good and was having fun watching the Olympics with Michael. We don't know what happened! Please have a special prayer for Mom.

PT

On Friday Mom had a good session with Physical Therapy! they said they will get occupational therapy to start doing there thing again. She has been talking a bit more and on Monday the are to do another swallow test Michael says she has been drinking Dr. Pepper just fine :-). Keep praying!

Talking

Up till now not much has changed. Today however, Mom is talking a bit more, it seems that she is able to think, but she is not able to get the words out. When asked questions, her answers make sense. She still shakes her head yes and no a lot. She says the hospital is taking good care of her. The case workers have a meeting on Tuesday and Michael will be able to attend so hopefully we will know more tomorrow. Thank you for your continued prayers!