Hey guys..
i was able to cir***vent the system today to get on here. Sometimes it lets me and sometimes not. The bane of being at work, i suppose.
Anyway.. As most of you know, Kevin (the boyfriend) has been in the hospital since 11/30. He was gravely ill back then.
Well, he's been moved out of ICU about 2 weeks ago, and has been off the vent for about 5 days. They started tube feeding him thru his Naso-Gastric tube. There was talk about putting a PEG tube in him (a surgical procedure where they put a hole in your belly and put a tube in, right into your stomach) and i of course flipped out, because he had the NG tube already, why carve another hole in him? Besides, if he couldn't tolerate anything in his stomach, he now has a hole in him for nothing. Fortunately, they are using the NG tube, started out with 10 cc's of Enteral/hour and are upping up 5cc's every 12 hours. He's doing really well with it. So, if he makes it to 50cc/hour, which is the plan, then they can start giving him broths/jello, stuff like that. The surgeon will be in shortly to reduce the tracheostomy site which is another step to closing that hole in his neck.
He's in good spirits, can get out of bed now, stand, walk and get into a chair. It might not sound like much, but when you're on your back for 50 days in ICU.. we are talking major muscle loss/atrophy. So, its major! He's really getting better. We are seemingly on the home stretch..
Thanks everyone for your comments on my LiveJournal and your support. its helped so very much...
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