I’ll start this one off on a funny note for you, since this happened last night. I was walking around to get my chair ready for bed. Earlier in the evening, I had loosened my belt to be comfortable. I came over to get something for Amanda, turned around, and my pants fell off all…

I woke up to a Tetris puzzle blocking me into my little sleeping corner. They had gotten Amanda out of the bed and into the chair, and the bed was blocking me in. I had to rearrange everything, including Amanda, to even get out. Amanda had planned to have a shake for breakfast. The nutritionist…

During rounds, the attending ICU doc was asking about breakfast. The nurse said she didn’t eat anything, so the attending stepped in and asked if it didn’t look good. Amanda told her to “Go ahead and look at it.” It was a tofu scramble, the doc said I’ve heard of that in disapproval. I told…

Amanda didn’t sleep well last night. I was hoping she’d get some decent sleep as things progressed. Her BP was down a bit, so during rounds, they dropped her to net even, only pulling what she takes in, on the CRRT machine. If I were to guess I’d say she would be off the dialysis…

I woke early, precisely at 3 am. My air mattress topper, which I’d snuck out from St. Luke’s, was flat. It bit the dust and had a hole in it. I tried pumping it up to no avail. I spent nearly the next hour wide awake. I used the time to find a thin camping…

There was sleep again last night, Amanda got a little more than before, but I don’t think much more unless you count the good after-dinner mini-coma last night! The day nurse is one we had before; she was with us when Amanda was intubated and wasn’t doing great, so she didn’t remember her. I’d seen…

Amanda slept the best last night, not sure if she got a full night’s sleep, but the nurse said she got 3-4 hours of solid sleep without waking. After I got back from getting coffee, the nurse was donning glown and gloves to go in. She’s a 100 percenter and found an old contact order…

Well, I slept good. The nearly two weeks in the hospital are catching up. I went to bed early and slept past shift change. Amanda, on the other hand, may have gotten 20 minutes, the nurse said. The sleep med did not seem to work too well. The night nurse was also lazy and didn’t…

The morning report was good. Amanda’s pain was under control with the pump, but she had to push it to get the medication; quick acting, but not long-lasting. The new ICU attending, sadly replacing Dr. Mery, was quick to want to add oral pain meds along with the pump. She ordered one medication, then I…

All good news in this post! (Well, I got ahead of myself when I wrote that earlier today. Read on to see why I’m going to end up being fully grey when I return to Texas! All in all, we are improving.) Yesterday, as soon as they took Amanda back for the biopsy, I took…