After I arrived today two nurses came with a wheel chair for Nancy.\u00a0 Then Nancy, a nurse, and I left the ICU, went down the elevator one floor to the main level and went to the front entrance.\u00a0 We told Nancy we were going to escape!<\/p>\n
Actually, on either side of the main entrance there are large windows and one can look off toward the hills east of downtown Yakima.\u00a0 The temperature was cold outside and it wasn\u2019t a really pretty day but it was the first view of the world outside of hospital rooms Nancy has had since Thanksgiving.\u00a0 For four of those days her rooms had windows but there was nothing to see and she was not in shape to care.\u00a0 The ICU room has a tall, thin window that lets in fuzzy light and looks at another section of the building.\u00a0 That one is behind the bed so it isn\u2019t useful either.\u00a0 This was the first chance Nancy has had to become orientated \u2013 both where the ICU is within the building and where she is relative to the city.<\/p>\n
She will stay in the ICU over the weekend it seems.\u00a0 She talked to the surgery team\u2019s nurse about not wanting to be moved because she is so weak and because there is less constant and immediate care in the Advanced Care Unit (ACU) where she was for the two 2-day periods when she was not in the ICU.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Nancy thinks a move just before a weekend is a bad idea.\u00a0 I surely don\u2019t know, while she might.<\/p>\n
Her refurbished heart seems to be doing fine.\u00a0 She is not up and around but by the time she is, about two weeks will have gone by since the surgery.\u00a0 Currently she indicates there is no pain associated with the upper chest area but neither is she coughing with a pillow held closely as we were told to expect.\u00a0 Her lungs are being helped to clear without that.\u00a0 I think if she were more vertical then coughing might be more normal.\u00a0 Nothing is normal about this though \u2013 not only is her heart healing but damaged lungs, kidneys, and liver (and her whole body) are also along for this ride.\u00a0 That is why hers is a special case and why she is still in the ICU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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