Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Laura's out of ICU

Laura is out of intensive care. She was transferred down to high dependancy yesterday afternoon. She is still on oxygen, although it is reduced. She has some secretions stuck in her chest but they are giving her chest physio to help her shift that. They are stopping her on the oral dose of zovirax for the infection in her hand as its giving her diarriah. They will keep applying the cream.
Because of surgery the times of her anti convulsants are all over the place. So she's not as alert as they would like. They are trying to bring them back to only morning and evening. They are giving her Calpol & Nurofen because her temperature is up and down a bit, so all in all she's fairly pumped with medicine. The swelling on her face has gone down but the side of her head is still quite swollen. I think she is doing well considering she is only 6 days post operative.

2 comments:

Carol Ann said...

great news about Laura, that is fantastic progress. i hope you are fine, I notice you have been posting updates at 4 am ! Need to get some sleep girl !
take care
carolann

Martin C said...

Great news. Me and Rose are thinking of you all the time. Fran & Gill keeping me updated all the time. Take care of yourself and get some well earned sleep soon.

Martin & Rose