Big Plans

It's about 8:30 p.m. and this is my (Amy's) last post for today.  They got my mom into a chair this afternoon for about two hours.  She had about 4 bites of her Baskin Robbins mint chocolate chip ice cream, and proceeded to offer it to everyone she saw, like her nurse, her doctor, and the assistant.  She is very anxious about not being able to move her head, and asked the doctor for a "special exception" so she could get it off.  In fact, she asked to talk to the doctor every thirty seconds until I finally went and interrupted his rounds--what a nice guy.  Of course, he said she couldn't have the halo off, couldn't get the feeding tube out of her nose, and couldn't yet move to a room upstairs.  She wasn't happy about it, but we're all hopeful she'll get 2/3 of those by Sunday (what a mother's day!)   

This evening she was asking for and drinking ice water and milk, and at first wanted some food.  However, the feeding tube interferes with her swallowing, and we're guessing that her throat is really sore from the ventilator, so she didn't end up eating much.  She begged us to take the feeding tube out of her nose and it was so awful to say no.  It was a relief when she fell asleep, as I think she was more agitated due to fatigue from her big day.

Tomorrow there might not be too many posts because it's Derek's birthday.  We're having a Transformers party.  I'm going to try and post some new pics of Derek and Anna due to popular request (I'm not ignoring you, Christine!)  The swim goggles were in a care package from Vickie A.  Oh, and the card I forgot to mention was from Nancy C.  We've gotten quite a few today, but I haven't seen who they're from yet.  Hope everyone has a nice mother's day weekend--we certainly are going to if everything continues on course.  The grasshopper pie from Baskin Robbins has been ordered!