Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Judy was doing poorly this morning again. Earlier today she soiled the bedding and her abdominal drain incision was leaking profusely. She was trying to get up off the couch this afternoon and couldn't. So, she got on the floor on her hands and knees to try and get up. That is where Bunny found her this afternoon. Bunny cleaned everything up and remade the bed. We bought some bed pads and more dressings for her incision site and she seems to be doing better.

She had quite a recovery by early this evening. Her jaundice is now gone and she was able to eat solid food. She sat up in the living room and talked to the work crew for 1/2 an hour or so. It looks like she is now out of the woods ... for the time being. Bunny probably extended her life by weeks, if not months. She has been with her 24 hours a day, for 3 days. It was a good thing, because I had so much going that I was unable to attend to her.
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Turns out that the water kept coming into the basement all day today again, so we had to move everything into storage. We now how two 10 x 20 storage units full. We hired a firm to come in the morning, take all of the carpeting out of the basement, take it to their warehouse, dry it out and clean it up. They will also store it until we are ready to put it back down. We have a drywaller coming in the morning to cut off the bottom 2 feet of sheetrock, in preparation for putting in the drains. We probably won't be starting to move back in before the 15th of March. But, at least we can do that slowly, over several weeks if necessary.