Terry surprised me this morning and came to the hospital to relieve me today. Thank you to whomever at Dell allowed this to happen. I was able to go home for the longest amount of time yet and caught up on my sleep and even had the urge (yikes I hate to admit this) but to do some cleaning. Really just to do something normal and non-hospital for a while. We were able to enjoy a family meal together at home, Nolan's choice, chicken fajitas. My sister, Elizabeth was able to relieve Terry at 5 for him to eat with us.
I think Elizabeth enjoyed her time with Matt tonight. She is the feeding of ice expert now and he immediately complained that I wasn't doing as good as Elizabeth had done it.
Fever is staying below 100 which means we are pumping him with platelets and blood as much as we can. I see outside the door his next $1,500 meal waiting him for tonight. Yum Yum. He is still nauseated, but isn't complaining constantly as he was the past several days, so I'm thinking it is getting better. His color looks better and he is joking around with his nurse.
The nurses up here are overworked and severely stressed this week. They are working single handily with 10 patients at a time. They don't get additional help (a tech) until they hit the 10:1 ratio. Of course Matt seems to take them the most amount of one on one time right now, yet they have other patients just as sick they are needing to help. I understand that it got so bad today while I was gone that they had to call in the director to assist with just Matt. GOOD, maybe someone higher up can see how crazy this 10:1 ratio is. I keep praising the nurses at how good they are doing and how pleased we are with their care of Matt, they are doing an excellent job!
Congratulations and prayers of thanksgiving go out to a friend from the past in becoming a grandma today. Looks like little Cole is truly a little angel. What joy!
I hate to sound like a broken record, but continue to pray for the nausea to go away (it has been little by little each day) Pray for another semi-peaceful night of sleep for Matt. Pray that his platelets will begin to climb, I think they were just 60 this morning. Pray that MaMaw has a safe trip here tomorrow as she comes to sit with Matt.
Thank you to McNeil students, 60 of them, who donated blood today in Matt's name. That is a huge gift. May you each be so blessed for your sacrifice of time for him.
Love to you all!
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