Hello everyone! im sorry for the long delay in reporting on Daniell. But I have a few up dates . Heres what hapaned since I left philly.
When I arrived in El Paso Texas my wonderful hubby was there to pick me up. He took me out to a wonderful dinner. We hopped in the jeep for the 100 mile drive home.
I guess about half way there.... it must have been about 7:30 new mexico time. My cell phone rings and its Dani saying, "Mom I think im gonna have a heart attack!" "Oh no Dani whats wrong?" Instantally im thinking somthing went wrong with one of her valves and is in trouble! Then she proceeds to tell me that there was an explosion 3 floors below her (its 930 pm in philly) a warning speaker comes on in the hotel telling everyone to evacuate the building by using the stairs and do not use the elevator. Dani gets up and directs Dion to get his wallet and she throws a blanket over herself and out to the frount desk they go. They are thinking there is a fire in the building with the loud explosion and they are on the 17th floor of the Penn Tower. She is trying to sumise in her mind how the heck is she going to go down 17 flights of stairs after just being discharged from the hospital! People are starting to exit the building via the stairs. The security guards have used a key to lock all the elevators from working. Another man comes out of his room in a wheel chair. No one offers to help them out of the building. Dani and Dion both in panic mode decide to wait and are eventually told that a security guard is being sent up to help the man in the wheel chair go down by unlocking the elevator and using it to get him down. (they figure they can hitch a ride down with him). Finally a security guard comes up telling them that the loud noise was a vaccume cleaner canister 3 floors below that exploded and the building is safe now and they can return to their room. Whew!!!
Then I tell Dani, please honey...dont ever call me and tell me after you just had open heart surgery that you think your going to have a heart attack! Geez! She almost gave me one! I guess if there ever is a test to see if mechanical valves work after surgery there couldnt be anything better than putting a patient in a high rise building and telling them there is a fire below them and to exit the building by using the stairs. Why dont I have a head full of grey hair???
Now back to Danis recovery. She started off doing pretty good trying to take it slow. Her chest was healing good but her hematoma still had the drain tubing in place and it was giving her alot of pain at night when she tried to sleep. She said some of the staples were pinching her. When she finally did get to see the nurse practitioner they removed half the staples from her chest and groin and made some adjustments to her blood thinners because her levels wernt right for how thin they wanted her blood to be. They hadnt realized her groin had so many staples and told her they were going to keep the drain tube in till they saw her again in a couple days. When she returned they removed the rest of the staples in her chest and groin and also the drain tube but noticed the wound on her groin wasnt healing properly. They said to keep an eye on it and if it got any bigger to let them know right away. They prescribed her some antibiotics and gave her some betadine to keep the wound clean, and again adjusted the amounts of the blood thinners she would be taking. (Every visit her amounts were too low).
Yesterday she went back to see them and they said the wound would need to be packed with gause as it wasnt looking good and they wanted to prevent infection. The gause would help with the drainage issue. And again upping the dosage of her blood thinners.
Today the nurse came to her room and removed the gause and measured the wound. Its 1.7 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters wide and 1.2 centimeters deep. She re-packed the wound and said that the gause looked good and there wasnt alot of drainage.
The doctor wont let her come home till this wound is healing properly. She is very homesick! She told me this morning that she just wants to come home! She said her chest scar is healing great. So right now she is just waiting it out and hoping this darn hematoma will start to heal.
They have met some nice people there. One of them is Jackie, she is one of the frount desk clerks and she has taken the kids laundry to her home and washed it for them. She has also gone to the grocery store and bought them a list of things that they needed. Dani also told me about a nice guy that enlarged a thai food menu for them and circled all the food he loves to eat at the restraunt. Philly really is the city of brotherly love!
For any of you out there that would like to perk Dani up, I bet she would love it if you would call her and try to brighten her day just a little. She is pretty home sick and misses all her friends. Im sure it would put a smile on her face....
George and I will be going camping for a couple weeks. Im not sure if we will be out of cell phone range but i do know I will not have internet. So I wont be making anymore posts till we return. I asked Dani to post if she gets the chance. She did say her groin hurts to sit down and she has to take her computer down to the first floor loby to get a signal so at the moment its hard for her to make posts. I just hope that the next post I make will be telling you all that the kids are home and safe. Have a great day everyone! Vel
No comments:
Post a Comment