Re: Jan /Jim's Health/Dena

[Guest guest]

Hi Dena,

It sounds like your aunt is benefitting the vigilance and advocating you have

learned is

required through care of your mom. She's lucky to have you in there with her.

I hope you got through Christmas OK and are not overly worn out by now.

Thinking of you.

> > > Hi Jan-

> > >

> > > We wanted you to know we are thinking of you and

> > > Jim and always keep both of you in our prayers.

> > >

> > > With outstretched arms-

> > >

> > > Sandie and

> > > S

> > >

> > > -- Jim's Health

> > >

> > > Hi,

> > > I had a wonderful Christmas with my family, but I

> > > felt horrible about

> > > leaving Jim for a day to be with my family. I did

> > > not have time to visit

> > > with him on Christmas Eve, as that is the day that

> > > we celebrate and open

> > > gifts and I had so much to prepare and get ready

> > to

> > > bring to the big event.

> > > My oldest daughter had Christmas Eve at her house

> > > and did a fantastic job

> > > and had a wonderful dinner for us all.

> > > My sister spent the night at my house on Christmas

> > > Eve night and the next

> > > night and left early this evening. We went to

> > visit

> > > Jim on Christmas night

> > > and he was in good spirits, even wanted to get out

> > > of bed for awhile. My

> > > sister gave him a balloon ball for Christmas. It

> > > looks like a balloon, but

> > > has the surface of a ball. We all hit the balloon

> > > back and forth. It was

> > > great exercise for Jim and he seemed to have fun

> > > with it. He also ate his

> > > dinner well.

> > > This evening I went in to visit him and he was so

> > > weak. Entirely different

> > > from the night before. He could bearly sit up. His

> > > blood pressure was 90/70

> > > and he almost passed out. He was shaking and could

> > > hardly hold his head up

> > > to drink liquids. When Jim's blood pressure drops

> > at

> > > the hospital they put

> > > him on Potassium Chloride to get it up again, I

> > > thought that maybe putting

> > > some salt on Jim's dinner would give him some

> > > chloride, sodium chloride, and

> > > he also had a banana on his dinner tray and that

> > was

> > > potassium, so I fed

> > > him the salty dinner and the banana. He ate a good

> > > portion of it and drank

> > > two full glasses of orange juice, which is good to

> > > get the blood sugar up.

> > > The nurse took his BP later and it had gone up to

> > > 110/90. jim was not

> > > shaking so much either. He still seemed very weak

> > > though and I hear all

> > > kinds of mucus in his throat that he can not cough

> > > up. He is too weak to

> > > cough it up. I bought some Mucinex. Has anyone

> > here

> > > used that for

> > > mucus/phlegm for their LO?

> > > I bought it in Child's form, because it is liquid

> > > form and easy for Jim to

> > > take. It is with Guaifenesin, so I figure it's ok

> > to

> > > give to him. I am not

> > > going to wait around for the doctor to ok it. Jim

> > is

> >

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