Don and I went to visit Vernell this afternoon. She was very incoherent and could not finish her sentences. It was really hard to see her like that. We took the Brett Favre jersey to show her and I am not sure she will even remember seeing it. We talked to her nurse and he informed us that she was really sleepy, but had overall a better day than yesterday. She has not been throwing up - yay. She still is not really eating, so they have her back on IV fluids.
When we left visiting with her, we went to grab some dinner. While at dinner, Vernell called Don and asked for us to come back to the hospital... she was scared and confused. We stayed with her for a while and tried to help her understand why she was feeling so foggy and confused. We talked with her night nurse and we are attributing these new changes in moods and level of confusion to the increased dose of IV pain medication. Her blood pressure was reading high tonight. We are comforted by the fact that we were able to have conversation with her tonight. When we left this afternoon, we were very, very concerned about her maybe having lost her oomph to fight this... but now we realize that she must have been affected by the medications. Whew! She still has a long way to go to get stronger. We are praying that God will bring her peace so she can rest well tonight - no nightmares.
We are hoping to catch up with her attending doctor tomorrow to kind of get a feel for where we are at. Don did get to talk on the phone with the GI doctor earlier today... I'll ask him to post about that conversation.
Until tomorrow... wishing everyone sweet dreams!
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