[Magdalen] Janice update 11/30/2015

[Judy Fleener]

Thank you for the update, Don.  Our prayers continue.


On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Clarissa Canning <canplum at gmail.com> wrote:

> prayers arising
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Esther Williamson <momohl1 at cox.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Still praying.
> >
> > Esther
> >
> >
> > On 12/1/2015 3:09 AM, 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
> >>
> >
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan