Helen was in her wheelchair. She is quite awake but is quite drooly. She has had a shower - her hair smells and looks lovely!! I brought lots of shower gels and body creams for her. I cut her nails today and removed nail varnish because she was rubbing it off. Her feet are quite cold.
Helen went to Haslemere hospital yesterday for an x-ray. The nurse accompanying her queried whether she was getting travel sick because she looked distressed and was drooling a lot!! She has no balance that she can control herself and this can cause travel sickness.
I phoned wheelchair services 3/4/13 and they are visiting Helen at Holy Cross not our house. They are delivering her new wheelchair. Judi has confirmed this.
Helen has been in the sensory room this morning on the Eye Gaze equipment. Judi is still not sure about her vision. Her pupils react very slowly. Her eyes still flick. However she does sometimes become startled when someone comes into her view.
She did well on the Eye Gaze. Initially she was looking everywhere but by the end so the session she settled more centrally. Judi is hopeful that it will be beneficial to her.
Mantumbi says that Helen swab of great toe shows staphaureus infection (mild). It should be sensitive to erythromycin and flucloxacillin. Erythromycin (morning and night) has been stopped. Helen has been on it for acne and she still has the infection therefore it is ineffective. She will be started on flucloxacillin. Still need to find out from Dr Stiff which antibiotic was more effective for Helen's ear infections.