Update Tuesday July 10

Update July 10

Today's update... a sip, and a breath.

Yesterday I wrote how my Mom made really awesome progress with passing the swallow test.  When she was able to sip the water that she had been wanting to drink for so long, she said: Taste and see that the Lord is
good. What a fitting verse obviously.  How difficult to go without something so basic, for so long.

Yesterday however was quite rough on my nerves as she ended the day with a temperature of 102.5, and was quite warm to the touch.  With the concern about infection ever present in hospitals, it was definitely two steps forward, one step back in terms of moving to complete healing/
release from the hospital.  The infectious disease team were not concerned as she was not in pain and was feeling good, however, which was reassuring.

Today, her fever went down to closer to 100.5 or so.  Significant progress. Sometimes the line that they run into your arm, because it has high sugar-content for giving you nutrition, can get bacteria as bacteria love sugar (a lesson for everyone in terms of how they eat). So they took this "pick line" out of her arm, and expect her fever to continue to reduce.  The tests they ran came back that she did not have an infection- praise God for that!

She drank some purplish grape-cranberry juice this morning, as a double check to see if purple fluid started to drain from her neck. Good news - no purple draining in her neck!

Today I finally felt like I was able to catch a breath too.  I made an effort to not be in the hospital too much - I saw her in the morning,
and went to a mall in Miami called The Falls which I used to go to in junior high when we lived in Miami.  Saw the movie Brave (very good), and relaxed a bit.  Was good to get some fresh air and take a breath.

My Mom and I watched some TV in the evening.  She was ready for sleep by 8 pm, which is understandable.  All in all, more good progress today. We are hoping she is released Thursday/ Friday, but better to make sure everything fully healed first.

Thank God for the continued progress with her fever reducing and no infection, and her throat healing.

Please pray for her throat to continue to heal fully and to strengthen
For her body to continue to fight off infection/ God to remove any
infection from her, and for her fever to be removed
Her complete healing so that she can safely and appropriately go home

Thank you

Russell