ARRIVED: 10am
BATH: I got Rose dressed and cleaned up in her bedroom. Her pad from the night before was dry.
BREAKFAST: yogurt
LUNCH: cottage cheese
NAP: Yes
MEDS: (RV) morning meds, antibiotic & eye drops @ 11:00a, 2pm afternoon meds.
FLUID INTAKE: Water
URINE/BM OUTPUT: Pad dry at noon and 4pm break. No bm.
COMMENTS: Althought Rose was awake most of the day, eating still proves to be challenging. She at times will allow the spoon into her mouth, (half of the time she tightens her lips not allowing feeding) but the food kind of just lingers in her mouth. She actually drank and ate very little for me. In the morning she was refusing the straw but did sip from a glass. Towards the afternoon she did take occasional drinks from her straw.
At one time this afternoon her eyes got very big and she was looking off toward the ceiling, her breathing was shallow but rapid, lasting less than 30 seconds.
Dr. Vesper decided to join us at 12:45 but we sat at the kitchen table until about 3pm. He had his usual breakfast and ate grapes with ham and cheese rollups around 3pm.
Regarding Rose’s sore, I think it may be a good idea to let Rose stay in bed and turn her every 20-30 minutes in an effort to help healing and prevent it from getting bigger. Instead of having her in the gerichair sitting.
****this is only my opinion. This morning when I went to get rose up. Dr. Vesper was laying next to her with his hand on her stomach. He said feel this she’s so warm. So I felt her stomach which was warm, and he said, “this is why I love laying next to her”. My personal opinion is I feel that their time together is very short and I hated that I took her away from him this morning. But with her being so awake I thought it was an opportunity to get some nourishment into her. She did refuse to eat most everything that was given to her today and if I had today to do over again I would allow her to lay with dr. Vesper for as long as he chose.