6/26/08 Morning Update

Mom continues to make great progress.  Physical Therapy had her up walking this morning.  She is using the oxygen mask at 40% oxygen but they will be trying to wean her down to less today.  The speech therapist came in to study her swallow response, a crucial step before allowing her food and water.  Her throat muscles are still weak but she was able to swallow several ice chips without a problem.  If the doctor agrees they will give her 5 ice chips an hour.  It sounds like real food and water is a couple of days off.  She is speaking better but her voice is still hoarse.

Since I am scheduled to go home on July 4th or 5th,  we are looking at care options.  I will be speaking to the doctor soon to find out what she predicts the discharge plans might be.