Doing good

I went early to the hospital today, probably not a good idea to be heading out during out during rush hour.  The traffic was horrible.  But it was good I went early, because I was there when Mom's doctor visited.  He said she wouldn't be going home today, that it was possible she'd be going home tomorrow (Wednesday).  A little disappointing, but it's better that she stay there until she's good and ready.  They still are trying to get her heart rate to be a little lower (although it's not that bad) and to be more stable.  They have started Mom on Coumadin, and the hope is that will do the trick.  He also said that they were going to put in place "nurse visits to the home", so that she could continue being monitored on her medication and that they would also start therapy with her.

So, I spent all morning with Mom and part of the afternoon.  Guillermo came later in the morning.  After we had breakfast there in Mom's room, we drove to her house, got her mail and a few other things, cleaned out her fridge a little and stuff like that.  Then it was time for lunch, so we stopped at Cracker Barrel before going back to the hospital.  Guillermo left after that.

Mom and I took 3 walks around the hallways today.  Each walk got longer than the one before, which was a little scary for me, but she seemed so eager to walk further.  And her doctor said it was good for her to walk, so all I could do was hope her leg wouldn't start hurting again but I knew if it did, a wheelchair was definitely going to come into play!!!  On the last walk, right before I headed back home, she did seem a little short of breath when we got back to the room, but not too bad.

While in the room, Mom and I do things like watch a little TV, order food for her next meal, listen to music on my laptop (today we listened to some German songs again, and to some classical music like The Blue Danube, and The Moldau), I show her periodically what the web cam is showing in Zell am See (the cows were on the hills again!), we open her mail, we do quiet time so she can rest, and general stuff like that.