9/5/2008

So just got out of the meeting with all of Carol's medical team, and much of Carol's family and mine and Chloe down for a nap. Carol was at the meeting as well in her wheel chair and looking very good, and inputting on the future plan. So here is where we go from here.

Carol will be completely tubeless a little later tonight and the hospital feels her acute care is over, as do we. Her arms hands and legs are healing well, she brushed her own teeth for the first time today. The general situation is that she is not quite ready for inpatient rehab yet. We want to wait a bit until she is prosthetic ready, which may be weeks or a couple months away. Hospital care during this time is not needed. So we have decided to bring her home and have in house interim rehab (Rehab without walls...thanks amy) for the time being. And then get her back up here for inpatient rehab when everything is right. We have much coordination to take care of before we can do this, and this will be done over the next week. Rehab will come to our house for a scope of reasons. Vision stuff, mobility stuff, etc and figure out what we need to do at home to make this work. Her wound care at home will be minimal, and will mostly be hygienic stuff. Exciting but a little nervous at the same time. Carol is a bit nervous for it, but it should be great having her home. The goal is a week from Monday. Thank harborview and swedish for everything you have done to make this happen.

scott

9/5/2008

Quilt CD

So one of Carol's friends in Boston, has started something called a voice quilt. You call a number, and enter a code, and leave a message, and then it's put onto a cd. If you want to leave a message for Carol the number and code are below.

877-687-7845, # 44949

thought it was sort of a cool idea.

scott

9/4/2008

So the trach came out tonight and Carol is doing well. She got in a wheel chair for the first time today. Her spirits are pretty good, and many rehab people saw her today. We will meet with a whole team a people tomorrow to discuss where we go from here. Will report when I can.

Scott

9/4/2008

Well hello everyone....
So the fundraiser's seem to have raised much excitement and some confusion.

There are two silent auctions going on. One through Erica's blog/website. I think what is on there is what is on there. If you want to contact her to donate something...her email is ericathur4@yahoo.com thanks

There is also a silent auction happening at the Enumclaw BBQ thing on 9/20/2008. Donations to that may be a little more appropriate. Please contact Denise Baxter at 360-802-9778 or email at ddhlbaxter@msn.com

thanks again everyone.

scott

9/2/2008b

Another Fundraiser to post about. This one is in Enumclaw on 9/20/2008 Thanks Denise and the Enumclaw Hospital.

9/2/2008

So real quick....

Carol got moved out of the ICU to the 8th floor at Harborview...into a big quiet room..very nice indeed. Her trach is still in, but the balloon in her neck is out, and the trach is capped. It will probably come out tomorrow or the day after. Regardless she can talk very well now. She is doing very good, and excited to get things going. Nothing really going on this week though. Another week of just getting better with increased pt/ot. There will be an inpatient rehab consultation on thursday, and a game plan from there with a family powwow with the doctors on Friday.

thanks

scott