November 11 2012

I had assumed that you couldn't have hydro with a trachy. I would have thought it would be an infection risk. That's great if she can because she loves water. It would also be great for her to have a bath/shower rather than just the bed baths she has been having.

I have been to see Helen this evening (I wasn't going to but got the opportunity so grabbed it). The HDU and ICU work on a 2 month rotation apparently and it is rotation change tomorrow so we have got a different set of nurses coming to look after Helen. She may have seen a couple of them when she was on ICU. The outgoing nurses have made a list of things that need to be done with Helen, not just medical things. Like putting her MP3 player on, putting hand cream on her hands and feet, letting them know that she is wearing her own night shirts, cut down the back and they are washed by me and that she needs to be turned towards the left because her head will always move back to the right!! They really have made her an individual. They have said that she can have a digital photo frame showing some of her friends and family. We can also have earrings back in but not her belly bar. We have got to bring her gossip and news from home as well!!

I am back in uni and I am rather tired, over emotional and stressed at the moment. It would be a real shame if there are no rooms at Holy Cross yet.

I have got an appointment with my doctor on Wednesday because I am having trouble sleeping and also dealing with everything that's going on. I think I am coming across as uncaring quite often because I am able to talk so unemotionally about what's going on. And that's the last thing I am!!

Helen's Hope: November 11 2012

Sunday 11 November 2012

November 11 2012

I had assumed that you couldn't have hydro with a trachy. I would have thought it would be an infection risk. That's great if she can because she loves water. It would also be great for her to have a bath/shower rather than just the bed baths she has been having.

I have been to see Helen this evening (I wasn't going to but got the opportunity so grabbed it). The HDU and ICU work on a 2 month rotation apparently and it is rotation change tomorrow so we have got a different set of nurses coming to look after Helen. She may have seen a couple of them when she was on ICU. The outgoing nurses have made a list of things that need to be done with Helen, not just medical things. Like putting her MP3 player on, putting hand cream on her hands and feet, letting them know that she is wearing her own night shirts, cut down the back and they are washed by me and that she needs to be turned towards the left because her head will always move back to the right!! They really have made her an individual. They have said that she can have a digital photo frame showing some of her friends and family. We can also have earrings back in but not her belly bar. We have got to bring her gossip and news from home as well!!

I am back in uni and I am rather tired, over emotional and stressed at the moment. It would be a real shame if there are no rooms at Holy Cross yet.

I have got an appointment with my doctor on Wednesday because I am having trouble sleeping and also dealing with everything that's going on. I think I am coming across as uncaring quite often because I am able to talk so unemotionally about what's going on. And that's the last thing I am!!

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