After 37 hours on a gurney in the Emergency Room at the UCLA hospital in Westwood (is this our 2nd home -- or our 1st home?) Judith finally got a room at 1:00 AM this morning. It was the same room that she had 2 admissions ago!
This trauma was all about the now-famous "wound", which seems to get healed in the hospital and goes to hell when we get home. With only one day here (and a reinsertion of another G tube) the site is already healing again. The current plan is to stabilize the site and for us to hire a specially trained "stoma" nurse to treat Judith at home. In our opinion that should work. Unfortunately, such nurses are VERY hard to find, but UCLA is working on it.
The resident surgical team, who now seem like family to us, love Judith and keep dropping in the see her during the day -- sometimes purely social visits. God bless them. I am hoping to post a picture or two of some of them when I figure out how to do that.
WES (UCLA "resident" supreme)
This trauma was all about the now-famous "wound", which seems to get healed in the hospital and goes to hell when we get home. With only one day here (and a reinsertion of another G tube) the site is already healing again. The current plan is to stabilize the site and for us to hire a specially trained "stoma" nurse to treat Judith at home. In our opinion that should work. Unfortunately, such nurses are VERY hard to find, but UCLA is working on it.
The resident surgical team, who now seem like family to us, love Judith and keep dropping in the see her during the day -- sometimes purely social visits. God bless them. I am hoping to post a picture or two of some of them when I figure out how to do that.
WES (UCLA "resident" supreme)
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