It's frustrating- no doctor

Mom's still in the hospital as of this morning. When we went last night, she was taking a breathing treatment again. We saw her Thursday and she had another brief round of tachycardia (which leads to shallow breathing, or vice-versa), but other than that, was feeling much better. She had a reaction to some anti-anxiety medicine that gave her a pretty good rash all over, so they were using Benadryl to get that stopped/reversed. She seemed to be eating much better (was very excited about having oatmeal that morning, as well as a little coffee and milk- no, she's only supposed to have thickened liquids, but they forget sometimes...). Friday night, she had what she thought was pureed stew,; it tasted pretty good and she ate most of it, she said.

She didn't remember seeing the doctor at all on Friday. She did say she had slept most of the day. She didn't remember seeing Dad on Friday, either; she either just didn't remember or he slipped out to go back to Big Spring while she was asleep.

Whatever the case, we're not getting a whole lot of information from the doctor(s) as to why she is still there, or what changes have been made to her medication, routines, etc. Meanwhile, she is not getting any therapy there.

She still continues to improve mentally, and her speech seemed very improved last night to both of us, even though she had on a mask. We both think that she must have dry mouth (which affects her speech tremendously) a lot. But, the mist from the mask for the breathing treatment probably helped keep her mouth moist, so she was clearly understandable (a nice, loud, clear voice) under those circumstances.

We don't anticipate any change in location (back to Vista Ridge) over the holiday weekend.

Have a safe and blessed holiday, everyone!