8/5 - Thursday

1:30 pm - Mom had a fair night. She was put on oxygen last night because she was short of breath. This morning she was put on a heart monitor because her heartbeat is going just a little bit too fast. They have also given her medicine to prevent blood clots. We went down for nuclear x-rays to check for blood clots for fluid in her lungs around 11:30 this morning. We are still awaiting these results. She is still receiving fluid with electrolytes through her central line, and her food pump is being used at 20 ml. / hour.

Dr. Johnson has mentioned again about getting her feedings up so she can go home. I love his optimism. It would be wonderful to take her home.

4:30 pm - Mom's x-rays and nuclear test came back okay so far. We are still waiting on the final read. She has had a fairly calm afternoon.

GREAT NEWS! Mom's doctors have been communicating with U of M. Finally, U of M has decided to take her as an inpatient. We will be going down in the next day or two. Yeah! Everybody claps here. It's not a diagnosis, but its finally something going in mom's favor.

I'll write to you all later.

Bye for now.