This is a little late but is as of 3pm. Tim and I were able to visit with Carol about 1.5 hours, though for the first 45 minutes or so, I don't think she knew we were even there. There were a bunch of nurses going in and out of the room and someone was always with her. She's also hooked up to more monitors, pumps, connections, etc. than you can imagine.
Overall, the medical staff is really happy with her progress so far. All signs are really exceeding their expectations. (Of course, they don't know that Carol is such an overachiever!). They predicted that it would be somewhere between 6 and 9 hours when they could take out the breathing tube in her throat and disconnect the ventelator. The breathing tube is the most uncomfortable thing that they do. They have to wait until you wake up and then have enough stability in various monitors (they are monitoring over 20 different chemicals alone) and then show that you can breath on your own for 15 mintues before they will even consider removing the tube.
Well, wouldn't you know it, but next time you meet Carol, you will be looking at the Kaiser record holder for quickest tube removal. Just a little over 2 hours!
So far evertyhing is great, the new valve is doing splendid, and Dr. Shin (who still seems to be hanging around) is really pleased.
After they got that out of the way,we were able to visit for a few minutes more, then they wanted her to rest for the remainder of the evening. So Tim and I left.
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Wow. That is impressive that she is awake so quickly. They had my mom knocked out until the next morning.
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Karen H.
Not surprised here, Carol will get it done if need be. I hated having that tube up my nose, and I coughed and strained as soon as possible to get it out! WTG Carol!
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