Sunday, October 19, 2008

It has been a while since I have posted, things get busy and I forget. Jayme is still in the nursing home/rehab. She was sent to the hospital when sh came down with a fever. At that time, she was doing worse than I have ever seen her. They had actually started with hospice care because it seemed to everyone that it was time. When she got the fever, we had her sent to the hospital just to be sure that we had done everything possible. After a few days in ICU she was transferred back to the regular unit and then back to the home. She is doing better mentally than I have seen her in a long time and her ascites isn't coming back as quickly, so whatever they did in the hospital and are doing in the home is working for her. She is still very weak, but she is sitting up for about an hour a day. She needs help with all of her daily activities, including eating. She isn't able to walk at all that we have seen. So it will be a long road, but she seems willing to do the physical therapy so she can come back home. We are hoping that she can do it; it would be great to have her strong enough to come back home.

She does have her phone and even though she rarely answers it, she does get the messages when we go visit. I know she enjoys hearing from everyone.