August 15 Update on Shirley

Hello,

There is really nothing new to report on mom. She is doing the same still trying to talk to us. I am getting better at understanding her that is a plus. She was off the ventilator all day yesterday just on the oxygen to the trachea but today they had her on the ventilator with CPAP (where it gives her support while she is breathing on her own). The respiratory therapist said tomorrow they are going to try to put a cap on her trachea that way she can talk. Her voice will be a little a horse at first but then it will get better. She wants to come home so bad she keeps asking us to take her home. She wanted the nurse to give her the paperwork to sign to be discharged from the hospital. We keep telling her that she can not come home right now because she still has all the machines hooked up to her. She gets agitated with us because we tell her she can not come home right now. She tired to write today but she still does not have the strength to hold the pen in her hand to write. We tell her that she is getting better everyday. Keep the prayers coming.