Tuesday - Dec.02

Picking up where last entry ended....
Monday night..
9:00p - Blood Sugar = 179, Walked one lap of 6th floor.
9:30p - Gina/nurse practitioner checked Sally's left leg/calf. Sally had been having pain in that leg. Gina says it looks o.k.

Tuesday - Dec. 02
02:10a - Blood Sugar = 161
06:30a - BP 165/76
07:30a - Dr. Cowart - said they will increase the insulin now that she is eating. She will continue on insulin in rehab and when she goes home. They will decide at a later date whether she will continue on the insulin indefinitely.
08:40a - Dr. Mengesha came by - said he would see Sally again in his office...after her surgeries, when she is stable.
09:30a - "wet" the chair (remember, the foley is gone). Nurse brought fresh underwear & pads. Earlier this a.m., Sally did walk to the bathroom, with assistance, and urinated in toilet.
10:00a - BP = 157/70
10:30a - Blood Sugar = 250
10:35a - Nicole- exercised Sally and walked 1/2 lap.
11:30a - Lunch : Ate 90% of roast pork, 50% of potatoes, 1/3 of green beans, and 1/2 roll, all of fruit bowl, and all of tea.
12:15p - Insulin and checked tube. When they empty the ba, they will strain it to see if there's any stones in it.
Used the Spirometer (500 highest reading).
Nurse applied cream for yeast infection.
12:20p - Breathing Treatment
12:40p - Walked one lap.
1:10p - Bath time.
1:30p - Walked one lap.
2:00p - Dr. McCrory came by and said Sally will probably go to rehab tomorrow.
3:05p - Vitals > by Kathy - BP 146/70 (elec.) Oxy 93
3:10p - Spirometer
3:20p - Becky (Rebecca), charge nurse came by to see if Sally needed anything....Sally says no.
3:35p - Blood Sugar = 124
3:45p - A lady came by to repeat what Dr. McCrory had said earlier, that Sally will be going to rehab tomorrow. Dr. McCrory & Dr. Newton have both approved. She said Sally needs comfortble clothes to wear. She will be going around 10:00a.m. She said that most people stay a maximum of 10 days.
4:15p - Breathing Treatment
5:00p - Supper > Ate 50% of Chicken & Rice soup, 75% of Jello, and 1/2 of tea.
5:15p - Urinated & nurse put cream on bed sore.
5:20p Spirometer (5 times) but quit early... says it hurts too much when it makes her cough.
6:20p - Meds > Insulin, Prevacol for cholesterol, pain pills (2 Prevacet).
Dr. Brown (Dr. Jimenez' partner) says to irrigate the nephrostomy bag. They said it didn't seem to be draining as much as it should.
7:30p - Vitals > BP = 149/72 (elec.), Temp 98.3.

til next time...