Day Twenty Four

9:57AM

Don is doing well this morning. He didn't sleep much at all last night. We even had the staff to come in a do everything before 9:00 PM so that if he went to sleep, he wouldn't have to be woke up. He did go to sleep but was up before midnight. He was having trouble with sleeping and breathing. He seems to sleep pretty well as long as someone else is awake but when there is no one else awake he can't sleep. We are beginning to wonder if it is some type of anxiety. Respiratory is trying to find something that will help him as he really shouldn't take meds to help him sleep with the breathing issues. All the masks suffocate him and the hoses that goes in his nose doesn't help when he is sleeping because he is a mouth breather. I don't know if I have mentioned it before but Don is off all oxygen when he is awake. We try the oxygen nose sometimes when he is sleeping but as I mentioned earlier that doesn't help. As for the nursing facilities, it looks like Lincoln Nursing is the best place according to you folks. But please continue to let me know what you think. We want the best care possible for Don. The doctor said that they thought that some of the swelling in his legs is due to the clots - maybe not so much the fluids from 2 weeks ago. He is producing lots of fluid when they give him the lasiks but the swelling is not going away as we would like. Please keep praying!