Visitation Postponed

Last Night

We had planned on having Mike and Sandra bring Pam's Mom and Dad to the hospital yesterday afternoon for a visit.  It has been really tough on them, because we have been holding off on visitors while Pam was so sick. As luck would have it, Pam got sick right about then, and she asked me to call them and ask them to hold off. It broke my heart, but they were great about it.  I explained to Bonnie, Pam's Mom, that it isn't that Pam is more sick, she is still improving, but the timing was just  bad.

We will try again today.

830 AM

When I got to the hospital this morning, Pam looked groggy.  I said "Oh no, you had a bad night, didn't you?"  She said, "No, I slept really well, I'm just having trouble waking up."

She has had some intermittent nausea and vomiting, but it responds really well to medication. She is "on target" for regenerating blood cells, and she is completely off of oxygen except for when she is sleeping.  She has a slight touch of jaundice, but the doctors area aware of it and will be watching her liver function.

The senior resident was commenting on her lung function and said "We would have intubated most people."  Meaning, most people with lungs that were in as bad a shape as Pam's would have had to breathe on a respirator, so everyone is relieved that they didn't have to go to that extreme.

Now that she is more stable, I am going to have someone else watch her for part of the day so I can make an appearance at work and at least give my best impression of being productive. I am really not comfortable leaving her alone.

I have got to say that my friends and colleagues at Clinicient have been great.  My email has died down to almost nothing and I know that they are taking things off of my plate.  I tend to get wrapped up in my work to the exclusion of everything else at times, but it turns out that the company continues to operate just fine in my absence.

Here is where I work, if you are interested:  Clinicient.  I am very proud of the company and, more importantly all of the dedicated people there.

So it goes ....