An early morning phone call to the Intensive Care nurse provided my Christmas present.<\/p>\n
I had spent an hour with Nancy last evening only 3 hours after the procedure that installed the balloon pump.\u00a0 She was alert but exhausted and while the read-outs on the monitors showed the equipment working as designed there was little to show for it from the person in the bed.<\/p>\n
The evening shift nurse had just been briefed and taken on Nancy\u2019s care as I arrived.\u00a0 She gave me a quick course in evaluating the lines and numbers on the monitors connected to the intra-aortic balloon pump and the related sensors inserted into Nancy\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n
At 6:30 this morning the nurse said Nancy had a good night and was talking and had just asked for some ice-chips.\u00a0 The screen info last night was positive and the nurse now says all those signals continued to improve and have translated into an improved Nancy.<\/p>\n
I hope you all got nice presents too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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