Cindy continues to improve.  his morning she was anxious and curious as to what happened and what was going to happen.  I explained to her the overall sequence of events over the last few weeks and the plan for the future.  She is stable and is still getting weaned from the breathing machine.

Rita and Debbie usually take a 3 mile walk on the Ironhorse trail at 3 PM everyday while the ICU staff does their reports and no visitors are allowed in ICU.  We haven’t been able to take our wals because we’ve been having rain and heavy winds for the last few days.    Today is much nicer and we have lue skies, so we’re going for our walk today.

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Cindy continues to improve.  She is still in the ICU.  She has started physical therapy for bed  movements.  She is able to sit in a gurney chair and can tolerate it for a few hours.  Because of the trachea, Cindy can’t talk yet.  We’ve tried to devise alphabet charts for pointing.  She can also mouth words and can make herself understandable.

Check out the Memory Lane – Pictures and Memory Lane – Stories pages on the right side of the blog.   There is also a new page called Talkies.  You can create a You Tube video and send me the link at debra.lobel@gmail.com.

Check out the new story in Memory Lane – Stories from Fran Cox.


Cindy slept well last night.  The plan for today is to wean Cindy off the breathing machine.  To do that they need to keep Cindy sedated just enough to stay awake but not agitated.  She is very sensitive to sedation and pain killers.  They put her to sleep.  The doctor would like someone to be with her today to make sure she stays calm.

Visitor Badge – You need to check in every day.  It’s like being in a hotel.

Near term goals include:

     Moving Cindy out of ICU to the Stepdown
     Moving Cindy to an After Care facility

An observation:

You know you’ve been at the hospital too long when:

• The people at the front desk now which room number you’re going to.
• The guards ask you how Cindy is
• The nurses know your personal history
• You know the code to the staff bathroom
• You give other visitors directions and advice
• You are tired of hospital food
• You know the people in the waiting room on a first name basis, their children’s names, their problems, why they’re here and what they’ve had for lunch.

I’ll update this blog with any new information as we get it.

Until then:

Check out the Memory Lane – Pictures and Memory Lane – Stories pages on the right side of the blog.   There is also a new page called Talkies.  You can create a You Tube video and send me the link at debra.lobel@gmail.com.