James is all cleaned up. Linens are changed. He's wearing PANTS, hurrah! Somehow you feel a little more human in pants in hospital. They're comfy blue scrub pants perfect for walking the halls if it comes to that. Also perfect for sitting in the chair by the window perusing the Sunday paper.
We had a family friend swing by this a.m. to check in on her Uncle James. Andrea is a respiratory therapist for the hospital. She's working the ER today but squeezed in a little therapy for James as timing was perfect to clear the stoma, his breathing is impacted when things build up. He is wearing a small "mask" at the stoma for a constant supply of humidified oxygen as we need to keep everything moist and problems occur if it gets too dry. Thank you Andrea for taking such great care of us!!
Andrea also nudged the nurse to pop in sooner rather than later with pain meds. Good to have caring connections. Our nurse, Nicole (who is fabulous) straightened out lidocaine patch glitch (wasn't in the system so we had to keep asking for it) and also the bacitracin ointment (yes should be applied to incision/stitches 3x day). All is good.
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Pants!!! ah the simple pleasures :)
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