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Saturday/September/2008 04:47 PM Barrie`s
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Guillaume is the nurse who is looking after Dad today. I get the impression there was a good rapport built between the two of them during the time when Dad was able to talk! Dad had obviously been chatting to him a lot before he had to go back on the ventilator!
Guillaume spoke a little too fast for me to understand everything but he confirmed what Marie-Thérèse told me earlier about Dad no longer receiving adrenaline for his blood pressure and said his blood pressure was good. I asked about Dad's bed sores on his head and heel and these are being treated with what I understood to be something which somehow removes the dead skin. (I wonder if it's maggots! Probably not, but if so, yuk! Maïté what's the French word for maggots?). Guillaume hadn't had a chance to see how the sores were doing but hopefully he'll be able to let me know this evening.
Although Dad's sedative is being reduced, it is gradual so he's far from being described as conscious. His eyes open very slightly when I talk to him so he does know I'm there but he can't really see me and I doubt he'll remember.
Poor little lamb, he did open his eyes wider when I started to rub some cream in his hands, but that's because, with the gloves, on I forgot how cold it is straight out of the bottle! Poor Dad is probably going to come round with apparently having hallucinated that he was a turkey being buttered up ready for an oven roasting, or something similar!
After checking with the nurses, they said it was OK to use the cream, which is the children's one from home and which works wonders on Jade's and Sam's eczema. Dad's skin is so, so, dry and thirsty in places, so I think even by the time I go back this evening, there will be a noticeable improvement. I'll give him another basting on every visit! His hands were quite hot so I think it was probably pleasantly cooling for him too. It's nice to try to give him a bit of a hand rub/massage with the cream but I have to be careful as there are various tubes and pulse monitors near or on his hands. Also, he will quickly get very cold if I use the cream in too many places.
So, now you've patiently read through another of my essays, I suppose I should confess that, actually, there's nothing really to report other than the fact that Dad's stable and moving slowly in the right direction again!
I've (very unusually) obviously just got too much time on my hands between visits!
More later!
Love
Nat
xxx
Guillaume is the nurse who is looking after Dad today. I get the impression there was a good rapport built between the two of them during the time when Dad was able to talk! Dad had obviously been chatting to him a lot before he had to go back on the ventilator!
Guillaume spoke a little too fast for me to understand everything but he confirmed what Marie-Thérèse told me earlier about Dad no longer receiving adrenaline for his blood pressure and said his blood pressure was good. I asked about Dad's bed sores on his head and heel and these are being treated with what I understood to be something which somehow removes the dead skin. (I wonder if it's maggots! Probably not, but if so, yuk! Maïté what's the French word for maggots?). Guillaume hadn't had a chance to see how the sores were doing but hopefully he'll be able to let me know this evening.
Although Dad's sedative is being reduced, it is gradual so he's far from being described as conscious. His eyes open very slightly when I talk to him so he does know I'm there but he can't really see me and I doubt he'll remember.
Poor little lamb, he did open his eyes wider when I started to rub some cream in his hands, but that's because, with the gloves, on I forgot how cold it is straight out of the bottle! Poor Dad is probably going to come round with apparently having hallucinated that he was a turkey being buttered up ready for an oven roasting, or something similar!
After checking with the nurses, they said it was OK to use the cream, which is the children's one from home and which works wonders on Jade's and Sam's eczema. Dad's skin is so, so, dry and thirsty in places, so I think even by the time I go back this evening, there will be a noticeable improvement. I'll give him another basting on every visit! His hands were quite hot so I think it was probably pleasantly cooling for him too. It's nice to try to give him a bit of a hand rub/massage with the cream but I have to be careful as there are various tubes and pulse monitors near or on his hands. Also, he will quickly get very cold if I use the cream in too many places.
So, now you've patiently read through another of my essays, I suppose I should confess that, actually, there's nothing really to report other than the fact that Dad's stable and moving slowly in the right direction again!
I've (very unusually) obviously just got too much time on my hands between visits!
More later!
Love
Nat
xxx