Superbowl Sunday

Last year I watched the game from the room in the back while Mina Brigitta slept. This year I went out while Keri, Monte and Judy were in the room. Apparently the first half was too dull for Mina Brigitta; that's when she went down for her nap. Otherwise she had a great day, very alert and energetic. They even had her pushing her little stroller around the room. Still not eating, but with her shrunken stomach she was probably kind of full from the NG tube all day. They started off at a very low level and slowly increased it throughout the day.

Unfortunately, either they increased it too fast, or else a coughing spell caused a gag reflex, because she threw up the liquid in her stomach, and the tube, about 10:30 pm. They gave her some anti-nausea medicine and waited until about 12:30 am to try to reinsert the tube. The first two times she threw it back up again, but the third time it stayed down and she promptly fell right back to sleep. Poor thing, hopefully it'll stay down this time.

We barely saw a doctor all weekend. Normally we wouldn't complain, but on Friday they were afraid her lungs were getting worse and were talking about a possible fungal infection, so they ordered a chest X-ray for Saturday morning. The resident finally came around tonight after we complained to the nurse and told us her lungs actually looked better. Which would have been nice to know on Saturday. Thinking about it, I guess there was an Infectious Disease team that looked her over pretty carefully on Saturday and thought she looked great, but it would have been nice to reconnect with the oncologist. Anyway, she had no fevers at all today, so we're crossing our fingers she's turned a corner.