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4 Goals for the Day!

There are 4 goals for mom today...

1. Sit in a chair - PASSED!!! She was up and sitting in a chair at 10:10 AM.
2. Pass swallow test to get feeding tube out & allow her to eat real food
3. Breathing treatments
4. Dangle - sit on edge of bed and dangle arms & legs

There will be no dialysis treatment today as the past two days of treatment have gone so well they are going to take a break to begin her on a normal dialysis schedule.

She is talking more today and dad says it's loud enough to understand.

The X-Rays of the pneumonia show improvement.

Once these goals are met they will probably go ahead and transfer her to the 3rd floor, which is the cardiac wing. This way her cardiologist can monitor her easier and she can get out of the ICU.

The doctors keep saying "baby steps" but to me it looks like she's taking strides from where we were a week ago! Hallelujah!

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