Mom made another night. After they put the pressurized mask on last night, she seemed better. The monitor beeped a few times at night but nothing serious. I slept on the sleeper chair for the next bed, they didnt put a new patient in after all. And we had the room to ourselves. But we probably wont be so lucky today. Just got up around 5am and looked at the numbers, her blood pressure went up to the 90’s from the scary 60’s last evening. The oxygen level went from the 80’s to the 90’s again. Still not good but slight improvement. She was holding the glucose solution ? too and didn’t throw up.
She gave us all a big scare last night, even the resident. Mom has become a big joker, every time the doctor thought she won’t make it, she pulled through.
Nikon came before noon and brought dragon eye for me. I went back to the hotel and took a shower and a short nap and came back to the hospital again around 3:30. Mom is using the heating stand again. Both the nurse and the head nurse came to talk to me. They are all very nice. We got a new neighbor when I was out. The patient was taking a shower when I came back, the husband is wheelchair bound, the son is here too. An intern came in to do history and maybe 7 or 8 doctors came in to observe. It was quite a scene. Later they said the doctors are in training to become better advisers. They brought two dinners for them at dinner time. Not sure which is more like a patient, the wife who had a fever or the husband who could hardly walk.
Mom is still hanging on. I was by her side when she opened her bad eye and I started to talk to her, she held her eye on me for a while and seemed to understand someone close is near her. That brought tears to my eyes. And the caretaker told me not to cry in front of her, I told her she already closed her eyes so she didn’t see it.
I will stay till around 10pm and go back to the hotel tonight since the room is already quad occupied right now. I might need to move the flight back for at least another week if mom hangs on. No point to go back again, she really won’t last too long.
My fingers are swollen again. The usual phenomenon for me when I am in Taiwan.
I ended up leaving around 8pm. Mom’s breathing has added a gurgly sound. It’s hard for me to sit next to her bed and listen to it. And the room was over occupied. There are only 2 beds and 2 sleeper chairs in the room. The neighbor’s got 3 people on their side. The sick mom in the bed, the elderly wheel-chair bound dad in the sleeper chair, and the son sleeping sitting in the wheel chair. It looked like they are going to all stay there for the night. So there are 6 people in the double room and mom has 3 machines and a heat lamp around her bed. I have a problem with crowds so it was giving me claustrophobia. I should have taken the single room.
Got back to the hotel around 8:30 and had a bit of brandy and passed out by 10:30 I think. But it was not a good night. Woke up around 12:30 thinking it was close to the morning. Then around 3am, a lady woke me up in the hall way. She was trying to get her drunk husband to their room but he was probably laying on the floor trying to sleep. So she yelled and clapped and making efforts to get him up and into the room. Her talking startled me awake. Tried to go back to sleep but it was hard with her making noises right outside the door, unfortunately, my room is right in front of the elevator and their room is next to mine. I finally called the desk and asked them to help these two. I think she managed to get her husband in the room before the help arrived. The disadvantage of living in a hotel, I guess.