[Magdalen] Janice update 11/30/2015

[Jay Weigel]

Prayers continue. Rooting for Janice as she starts on this new path.
Hopefully her stubbornness, as you've described it, will stand her in good
stead here.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Prayers continue.. It seems a long road ahead but I give thanks for her
> progress and that there are reasons to
> Be hopeful.
>
> Marilyn
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:19 AM Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thoughts, prayers and hugs for you and Janice today and continuing
> forward.
> > with love,
> > Lynn
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Dec 1, 2015, at 2:09 AM, <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> <
> > thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > Janice was transferred to a Long Term Acute Care hospital today.  She
> went
> > from the general hospital ICU to the LTAC's ICU, but I reckon will move
> > thence to a regular bed within a few days.
> >
> > I believe that I should feel elation but I am in fact weeping as I type
> > this--she has come so far, but has yet so far to go!  And I don't know
> the
> > people who will be taking care of her at the new place.
> >
> > This is not the LTAC we had earlier thought she would go to, which
> requires
> > daily participation in 3 hours of rehabilitation therapies, and Janice
> just
> > isn't ready for that physically.  The facility she moved to today is more
> > medically oriented and will introduce rehab therapy more gradually (she
> has
> > already had a few PT sessions where she's been, getting her to sit up on
> > the
> > side of the bed [4 minutes max so far]).
> >
> > Janice is breathing entirely on her own (this is I believe what drove the
> > decision to move her), and she's certainly getting stronger by the day.
> > She
> > still can't speak or swallow, and it's been a month since her feet
> touched
> > the
> > floor.  She still has a tube to introduce oxygen into her trachea should
> > she
> > need it (she hasn't needed it in the last 48 -72 hours), and a
> gastrostomy
> > tube
> > for nourishment.
> >
> > Will report further progress as I observe it.   Thanks to all for
> thoughts
> > and
> > prayers.       Don
> >
> --
> Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
> Mobile, Alabama
>