Not a lot to report today.\u00a0 Her general condition is changing slowly now so just \u2018when\u2019 I visit may mask anything else. \u00a0Maybe she has just had a short nap or maybe she has been awake and just had several pricks, prods, or questioning staff of one sort or another.<\/p>\n
Yesterday afternoon was the \u2018handoff\u2019 of the day shift from doctor to doctor.\u00a0 \u00a0So Dr. X was around to hear from Dr. Y about the patients \u2013 Dr. Y having been involved for 4 or 5 days.\u00a0 Thus, this morning Nancy essentially was being seen by an unfamiliar doctor and attended to by an unfamiliar nurse.\u00a0 When this happened ten days ago the newly arriving doctor told me he had just spent 1 \u00bd hours reviewing Nancy\u2019s file and he, in fact, already knew her and her background.\u00a0 I have no doubt that these folks know what they are dealing with.\u00a0 The nurses are smart, well trained, and experienced also \u2013 they wouldn\u2019t be in an intensive care unit otherwise.<\/p>\n
Still, this morning, Nancy felt a little miffed at the new team.\u00a0 I figure if you are feeling well enough to notice the difference you might be recovering.\u00a0 Just a thought.<\/p>\n
The implantation of the pacemaker is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday morning.\u00a0 Again, this is dependent on the clotting time to fall to a safe number.\u00a0 \u00a0The modern measure is standardized so that regardless of the particulars of the testing a number is reported that can be compared to other test results.\u00a0 This is called the INR or International Normalized Ratio.<\/p>\n
The appropriate range for a non-ill person is an INR between 0.8 to 1.2.\u00a0 Nancy\u2019s number has been much higher in recent days and was still at 2.7\u00a0 on the latest test.\u00a0 They are hoping for about 1.5 tomorrow morning.\u00a0 From yesterday in a chat with the doctor I got the impression they would wait for it to adjust on its own rather than add platelets filtered from donated whole blood. \u00a0Note the word \u2018impression\u2019 in that line.\u00a0 I could have misunderstood and\/or they may change their minds.<\/p>\n
Today Nancy showed me how to find an e-mail address book on her laptop within Mozilla\u2019s Thunderbird mail application.\u00a0 I\u2019ll start going through that list and sending news of this site out to folks – so, if you found your way here via someone else, you may get an e-mail from me soon.\u00a0 I\u2019ll put a Christmas\/New Year\u2019s greeting on the top and you can ignore the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not a lot to report today.\u00a0 Her general condition is changing slowly now so just \u2018when\u2019 I visit may mask anything else. \u00a0Maybe she has just had a short nap or maybe she has been awake and just had several pricks, prods, or questioning staff of one sort or another. Yesterday afternoon was the \u2018handoff\u2019 … Continue reading “TUESDAY — still waiting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-1v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}