thursdays visits
Thursday/August/2008 09:13 PM Barrie`s
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Hi gang,
I will have to try to make this brief, as am well knackered myself today.
Almost as tired as Dad!!
Lunch time visit was fine, Barrie was responsive and seemed pleased to see me however first thing he mentioned was as usual he was cold. He needed his 2nd blanket. I really think that if he had 10 blankets we would still feel cold! His body temperature is normal, it is just that he feels cold. Lack of movement and circulation is the cause, so I find the best course of action is to get hold of his shoulders and give them a good firm massage, no stroking the skin, just good firm hands. As my own body temperature runs about 5 degrees above normal, my hands soon warm him up. He likes this massage and even though I almost put my own back out doing it, I know this helps him and he normally nods off.
He has pysio twice per day now and he is again making small steps forward, the pysio moves his arms and hands and he gets them up as far as his shoulders. They are now slowly started to work the legs a little. They seemed pleased with his progress.
Ref Kidneys, I am sure that these will resume normal service over the next couple of weeks, Dr has confirmed that he is slowly now reducing the number of hours that he remains on the annoying dialysis machine.
He spent an hour this morning and hour and a half this afternoon breathing on his own. So that is great stuff, however as you can imagine, 2 lots of pysio and 2.5 hours of natural breathing has made him very tired, which is fine, the more he sleeps the better for him right now.
I tell him about his blog comments and try to have a bit of a laugh with him without making him choke!!
Dr says that next week, maybe even on Monday they may be taking out this awful tube (respitator) that is stuck down his throat, it will be the biggest step forward for him and I know that he can not wait for that day to come! Bless him and God help us! Barrie could be talking with a week!! Bye Bye white board!!
All in all both visits were the same, in and out of sleep whilst getting shoulder massage, Melanie accompanied me tonight and he was pleased to see her.
I managed to speak to the lovely Dr Anne Charlotte before I left tonight and without repeating ever thing she said, all in all Barrie has made some good improvements and they are very happy with his progress. Basically he is on the road to recovery, still a long road but the right road. Not quite as fast a road as he would normally choose but I am sure he will get there eventually!!
That's your lot!!
Signing off,
Max
I will have to try to make this brief, as am well knackered myself today.
Almost as tired as Dad!!
Lunch time visit was fine, Barrie was responsive and seemed pleased to see me however first thing he mentioned was as usual he was cold. He needed his 2nd blanket. I really think that if he had 10 blankets we would still feel cold! His body temperature is normal, it is just that he feels cold. Lack of movement and circulation is the cause, so I find the best course of action is to get hold of his shoulders and give them a good firm massage, no stroking the skin, just good firm hands. As my own body temperature runs about 5 degrees above normal, my hands soon warm him up. He likes this massage and even though I almost put my own back out doing it, I know this helps him and he normally nods off.
He has pysio twice per day now and he is again making small steps forward, the pysio moves his arms and hands and he gets them up as far as his shoulders. They are now slowly started to work the legs a little. They seemed pleased with his progress.
Ref Kidneys, I am sure that these will resume normal service over the next couple of weeks, Dr has confirmed that he is slowly now reducing the number of hours that he remains on the annoying dialysis machine.
He spent an hour this morning and hour and a half this afternoon breathing on his own. So that is great stuff, however as you can imagine, 2 lots of pysio and 2.5 hours of natural breathing has made him very tired, which is fine, the more he sleeps the better for him right now.
I tell him about his blog comments and try to have a bit of a laugh with him without making him choke!!
Dr says that next week, maybe even on Monday they may be taking out this awful tube (respitator) that is stuck down his throat, it will be the biggest step forward for him and I know that he can not wait for that day to come! Bless him and God help us! Barrie could be talking with a week!! Bye Bye white board!!
All in all both visits were the same, in and out of sleep whilst getting shoulder massage, Melanie accompanied me tonight and he was pleased to see her.
I managed to speak to the lovely Dr Anne Charlotte before I left tonight and without repeating ever thing she said, all in all Barrie has made some good improvements and they are very happy with his progress. Basically he is on the road to recovery, still a long road but the right road. Not quite as fast a road as he would normally choose but I am sure he will get there eventually!!
That's your lot!!
Signing off,
Max