Better Today

Mom is much better today. She got some sleep last night ... and boy, that makes a huge difference. The reason her hemoglobin is going down is due to the fluids they are giving her via IV so they only gave her one unit of blood so that she did not get overloaded with fluids. She sat up for an hour today with NO OXYGEN and was able to take a sponge bath. Her legs are a bit swollen but the doctors are not worried -- as soon as she gets up and starts moving a bit then the swelling should go down. Thus far the cultures have shown nothing and we have not heard about the chest x-ray yet. My guess is that she got the virus that the kids and I had ... and that her system simply cannot fight it off. The blood clots may have nothing to do with the breathing issue but I am sure glad we found them. More later.