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Yep Betsi, I bet you have a great time.
We had a busy time here at the hospital this morning. They took Gary to another floor to a shower room with a chair. It's the first time he had been out of bed since last Fri, so he was very weak, but he did really good. He was able to transfer from bed to wheelchair and then when we got to the shower room, there was a toilet inside, so he sat on the toilet and had a bowel movement (he's been on the bedpan since last Fri -wouldn't he just DIE if he knew I told you that. LOL!). Then he transferred to the shower chair, did his shower himself, and then transferred back to the wheelchair. Needless to say, he is passed out asleep back in his room now, but he sure feels a lot better after a good shower and head scrubbing.
His procedure to place the catheter is at 3:00 and they will do dialysis after that. He will have to stay in ICU at least till tomorrow, and maybe till Fri. It just depends how he does with dialysis. The plan is to have cardiac rehab get him up and around tomorrow and through the weekend and then get him out of the hospital the first of next week. His cardiologist would like him to go to a rehab center for a week of rehab, but he probably won't go for that. We'll see.
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 Gayle
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