May 11th

Because Dad spent the night with Christine in the hospital, Christine woke up this morning to Dad watching her, which she found very cute. The two of them wheeled down to the cafeteria for breakfast, and Dad relayed everything that they ate to me later in the day so I think they had a good time :)

After hanging out for a bit Dad left Christine on her own so he could go and get her a new phone as hers has been acting up recently, He made a pit stop for deodorant as well. Dad picked up lunch from the cafeteria for the two of them, and Dad says he bought himself the heaviest salad yet!

Christine had two of her good friends and their significant others visiting today - Molly and Carl and Rebecca and David. I think they all hung out for quite awhile, giving Christine a nice distraction! Dad hung out with Christine the rest of the day until Mom and Tommy showed up to bring her dinner, and then Dad came to my house and Mom stayed on the "night watch."

There aren't too many new updates medically for today. They are still watching her one swollen knee, but have decided to wait another day before draining it. There seems to be a little bit of reduced swelling in the ankles and the better knee, they think because Dad suggested elevating her feet for most of today. Her O2 levels are still an on-going concern, and were even kind of low during the day today. She has slept with oxygen on the last couple of nights. It's unnerving to me that they aren't looking into this more - they seem to think there could be some fluid in the lungs and have talked about having a lung PT person come to help, but it hasn't happened yet. I'm pushing her to continue her incentive spirometer, but I'm not sure if it helped. Pain wouldn't increase her pain meds today because of the low O2 levels, because they said that even though the low levels weren't caused by the pain meds, the pain meds wouldn't help the situation.

Even with her joint pain Dad encouraged Christine to go on a walk today (now with her walker instead of the IV pole) and she did manage to go for one walk. Before the joint pain Christine had been walking four times a day, but in the last few days she has only gotten up to move about the room and go to the bathroom.

That's it for today! A rough day for Christine emotionally I think, but she really enjoyed her time with Dad and with her friends, and was happy to have Mom as her bunk mate tonight as well.