It's Soooo Cold!!!

Mom's biggest complaint at the hospital is the temperature, it's too cold for her. They will give her warm blankets, if she asks for them. But she says its too much trouble for the nurses, so I have let them know that they should get a blanket for her if she seems cold. And if I'm there I make her push the call button and ask for one, to train her to ask for a warm blanket. Today I also brought her a pair of leggings (to replace her soiled ones) and the vest her mahjong buddies gave her for her 90th birthday. She was very happy to get those things to help keep her warm. As soon as they covered her with the warm blanket she fell asleep. (She said she couldn't sleep last night because she was cold.)

Mom in her vest, enjoying the nice warm blanket that is being placed on her.

When they came to give Mom a bath she loved the warm water! One thing we discovered is if the outer door is closed it gets cold in the room; when the door is open the warmer air in the hallway comes in. The Mobile Warming battery-heated vest that I ordered for Mom arrived today, so she will have one more thing to help keep her warm. (This is the same brand of vest I used to keep me warm when I did field work in the winter.) The lowest setting is 90 degrees F and will last for 10 hours; I got 2 batteries so Mom can use it all day.

I arrived at the hospital a little after 10 this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see Aunty Judy was visiting with Mom. (She joked that she had to come and see the rainbow eucalyptus.) She stayed several hours, so we got to talk for a bit. While Aunty Judy was there, Mom called to talk to Aunty Florence; Aunty Judy also got to talk to Aunty Florence. We also got lunch from the Sunrise Cafe. I had the pork posole and Aunty Judy got the chicken hekka.

Pork posole, it was pretty good!

Mom got another surprise visit, this time from Nurse Staci from the ATC! Nurse Staci got off early because they did not have many patients at the ATC today, she stopped by before she went home. She had seen Mom was in the hospital so came to say Hi!

Dr. Kamai came by to check Mom's lungs and rib. He said they have not been able to culture anything from her blood yet, so that is good news. But he said they wanted to make sure so they would be keeping her for at least another day. The first day Mom was here, Dr. Thaludi said if there is a high bacterial load it takes about 2 days to see results. She said if there is a low bacterial load, it could take up to 5 days for them to get anything to grow so they would keep her here until then to find out what is causing the pneumonia. Every day they draw blood to check the levels of antibiotics in her system and also to check the levels of her red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cells.

Mom also got a phone call from cousin Gladys. There has been a lot of flooding going on in northern California, it was nice to hear that they are in a part of San Jose that is not flooded.

Curtis left this morning about 10:30 to go to a luncheon. In the afternoon, he stopped to pick up Dad, who asked last night to come for a visit today, but Dad was not feeling well so he decided not to come.

I've been using the Wii Fit every evening for 4 days straight now. I try to do at least 1 exercise from each of the 4 categories (Yoga, Strength Training, Aerobics, & Balance Games), for a total of 1 hour. The Yoga one tells me I need to get stronger to do a bunch of the poses. The Strength Training one tells me the same thing. I keep trying to do the Step Dancing activity of the Aerobics category but I have 2 left feet. The Balance activities seem to be the most fun, especially the ski jumping. I figured out when you are going down the ramp the more you keep the red dot on the blue dot the faster you go. Then extend your legs as soon as you hit the red line at the bottom of the ramp & keep your balance; if you wait too long to extend you wipe out and become a big snowball with skiis.

The maximum speed is 50 mph.

Here are my highest rankings. Guest F is actually Randi. She is also the No. 1 ranked ski jumper; I think her high score was 280 m.


Happy Birthday to Mickey! Happy Tile Day, Banana Bread Day, Dog Biscuit Day, Toast Day, and Chili Day! Tomorrow get ready to celebrate Skip the Straw Day and Tortilla Chip Day.