Thursday, November 9th 8:20pm
I spoke with Mom briefly, a little while ago, and am hoping to hear more from her later…
They gave Kerrie a chest x-ray and it shows a few opaque spots on her lungs. One of the BMT doctors says this may just be more liquid collecting in her lungs and they are going to start giving her small doses of lasicks ( not sure this is spelled right), a few times a day, to see if it will help her get rid of the excess liquid. Good thing she has a catheter… lasicks make her go to the bathroom every five minutes 🙂 Once Kerrie is well enough to read this post ( and hopefully she will be one day) she’s going to smack me for writing that!!!
The EKG showed “something”… but not exactly sure what “something” means. Hoping to get more information from Mom on this later.
As of the time I spoke with Mom, Kerrie was resting and looks better than she did yesterday. I reminded Mom that it’s Thursday night and she has to be sure to turn on Grey’s Anatomy for Kerrie. I don’t know if Kerrie has any idea what day it is.. she just flips through channels until she finds something that catches her interest. I know she wouldn’t want to miss Dr. McDreamy..
Mom is exhausted, after staying up all night, and made an attempt to go to the hospital apartment to sleep for a little while this afternoon.. but only slept an hour and a half due to her cell phone continuously ringing. She couldn’t turn off the phone, in case the hospital called, so she had to try to sleep in between all the phone calls. While she was at the apartment, Occupational Therapy came in to see Kerrie but Mom has no idea what they did and is hoping to get more information on this later.
Hopefully, it will be a quiet night.. Mom will get some sleep in Kerrie’s room.. and I won’t have any news to report until tomorrow. If there IS anything else to report tonight I will be sure to get it on here A.S.A.P.
Everyone has been so loyal to Kerrie and to our family.. I want to do my best to get posts on here, so no one has to be anxious or wait too long.
As for me, I return to Michigan tomorrow night and will hopefully have internet connected in Kerrie’s room ( By the time I get back.. Hint to Mother), so that I can do updates from there. I did a little cleaning tonight… VERY little.. but at least some got done. As for the bills… umm yeah.. those will get taken care of sometime. I wonder if the doctors at the hospital could write me a note excusing me from paying them on time? 🙂
Jenn
9 Comments
Jason
I have a friend that is a Doctor and A priest. He can marry anyone and write medical excuse slips. If you need help with notes, I’m sure he’ll hook you up! And he said he can make me a priest for $25! This internet thing is awesome. I’m so glad I have one.
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Bills can wait, a little anyway. Keep current and call the ones you can. I think some don’t mind so much if you call, but if you totally ignore them… that might not be so good! 😉
Shane
Give the bill companies the website to K.A.S.T.! That will certainly fill them in on why you haven’t had a chance to get with them. =)
Just having a chance to get a LITTLE cleaning done is worth bragging about. I don’t have a good excuse and I feel like I’m living in a landfill… (ok, maybe not that bad, but pretty bad anyway).
And yes, I do remember budgets very well Jenn. I remember having to do them and re-do them and re-do them. If you get those done over today and tomorrow, you are the ultimate champion of Cedar Fair budgets in my book. I must say you have plenty of bragging rights when it comes to Cedar Fair stuff, why not add budgets to the list?
Take care of yourself and don’t forget that hug and kiss to Kerrie for me. =) Tell her to keep hanging in there and that I look very forward to seeing her when we visit next summer!
Jenn
Ha.. a priest and a doctor. That was a good laugh and believe me.. it felt good to laugh. I must be doing better with my mail than I thought. I finally opened it and it appears I payed my bills last month and don’t remember. I’m not sure what surprised me more.. the $7.00 gas bill or the fact that I had already paid them up to date. I was convinced the gas bill was wrong, but then remembered I haven’t been here to use anything.
Shane, call me the champion of budgets. At least my seasonal labor. Finished that one yesterday. Keep in mind, though, I only have a few departments ( HR Office, Wardrobe, ESD, Education, Housing) so it’s not like I have to budget for 60+ rides or anything like that. Of course, as I am sitting here I am thinking of changes I want to make already.
Today I’ll tackle the Supplies budget. NOT so easy, but I will find a way to get it done and get on the road to Michigan.This is just the first round, so I am sure I will come back to a lot of changes needing to be made.
I will definately give Kerrie that hug and kiss.
Aunt Mary Jo
Take a hug and kiss yourself, Jenn! We love you! Then, hugs to Kerrie and massage her feet for me. She loved it when I was able to visit her.
By the way, when I worked in Neurology, I had many patients that perseverated on “No.” It is part of the healing process. Let Kerrie know you understand her struggle and that it will get better. The tears are also related to emotional lability. They may not mean she is sad, either. This will get better, too.
Much love to you, Ron, Joan, Steve and all her love Kerbear!
Aunt Mary Jo
Let’s make that “all who love Kerbear”!