Thursday July 22nd, 2010

Alyson was able to get more sleep last night. Pauline says that she was turning over on her own from one side to the other during the night. Until now she could not move on her own with out being in a lot of pain and without help.

She was up and had breakfast. Today she ate fruit and cranberry juice.

The physical therapist came by again, and she went on a long walk, going to both ends of the ICU wing. She was also able to go out on to a small balcony and breath in some outside air. The first she has been outside in 12 days. The bright lights in the hallway bother he eyes, and so she wore her fluorescent green sunglasses during this walk. All the nurses came out to encourage her on. She is fast becoming a well known patient in the ICU. The therapist says that she is still tense all over, but not as bad as yesterday. After the walk she sat in the chair for a while, and then had a nap.

Pop Pop and Grandma Bailey arrived today, and this gave Pauline and Andrea a chance to get out to take care of some things.

Still having bladder problems, and they are working on that.

She has been able to move her neck a little more today. And that is a great sign.

Every day and almost every hour since she has been in the ICU, the nurses have asked her on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst, what was her pain level. It was mostly 8 or 9's that she would reply with. Today the pain level she says is 4. So either the pain meds are working better, or things are starting to improve.

The brain drain is still a little cloudy.

Dr Mocco says the progess is still excellent.

Still concerned about the vasospasms she is having. They continue to keep a close eye on this.

I will be back there tomorrow night. So I will update tomorrow night.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.